Day 7: into the Amazon jungle
- Chachapoyas to Moyobamba
Billed as a long ride, we set off from Hotel Revash in Chachapoyas main square about 0930 after some last minute maintenance (which didn't need to be!) .
As we leave the square I admire one of the lovely female police motorcyclists who insist on wearing very stretch trousers
We enjoy the swinging canyon curves out from Chachapoyas and I am in a pleasant reverie when another member of the group catches me to tell me one of our number has come unstuck on a wet and gravelly water drain across a bend in the road.
Fortunately he has picked himself up and ridden on so we hope all is well and continue over a large mountain range.
This after a 20 minute wait by the roadside for 2 other members of the group have decided to take a coffee break. We fear more casualties so are relieved when they turn up unharmed, but grumpy they kept us waiting by the road when we too could have been having a coffee break
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As we climb I see a hen run out into the road in front a bus which gives it a fair thump before the sorry fowl is despatches by one of our group who is overtaking the bus at that moment.
Bus drivers and Peruvians generally seem very religious and this bus is a good example
Having seen the vertiginous drops off Andean roads I think I understand why!
The ride over the mountains is very wet but as we descend on the other side we get the warmth and wild West feel if the jungle. All is rather ramshackle but there is a long and straight road to Moyobamba. On the way we stop at a small roadside cafe for wonderful bean soup which with coffee, water and a cake comes to about £2.50 each.
By this time our fallen rider decides his leg is too painful and puts his bike on the trailer. Here he is having ice applied by the attentive staff at our Moyobamba hotel
Whilst we enjoy local fruit juices and beer
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