Agreed, the central road along the Andes is never boring. We did a few variations on that including heading up in a half circle to come into MachuPichu region from the north.

All fairly slow going though - as is the route down the bottom of Ecuador through the La Balso border post instead of following the Pan American all the way. Pan American in Peru is straight, flat, boring and incredibly dangerous for bikes because overtaking traffic just overtakes regardless of oncoming traffic and bikers just don't count at all. We only stayed on it for 200km and couldn't wait to get off it and back to the scenic roads.

You will be up at over 3000 metres and up to 5000 metres depending on your route.

Your problem will be to balance sightseeing with the need to keep moving, but you will get plenty of easy riding in Chile unless you choose to take the road down the coast as much a possible in the north. Atacama desert isn't much fun in the hot season while the coast road south of Iquiqui is always nice and cool.

My photo albums of the various stages of our trips might give you a bit of an idea of what to expect, but of course we are in a big camper rather than bikes and speed is rarely in our vocabulary.

Navigate by the seat of your pants if you like - and your Spanish is good enough - but if you have a garmin loaded with free openstreetmaps plus all the database from iOverlander for camping, you WILL have a lot easier time of it.

Our route for the last couple of months since Cusco is at https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php...fillFactor=100

Insurance is mandatory in most countries (but not in Ecuador as it is included in a government scheme introduced early this year) so a bit of research before you hit the road won't go astray

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Tony
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