Cycling the TEMBR, Ecuador’s Avenue of the Volcanoes
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Cycling the TEMBR, Ecuador’s Avenue of the Volcanoes

ByOutdoor Roamers

To discover the Ecuadorian Andes we cycled parts of the Trans Ecuador Mountain Bike Route (TEMBR). The Trans Ecuador MTB route crosses the country from north to south connecting the most interesting sights via remote dirt roads. Although we don’t have a mountain bike, we took our chances and started cycling the TEMBR on our…

Crossing the Colombia – Ecuador border through the Amazon rainforest
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Crossing the Colombia – Ecuador border through the Amazon rainforest

ByOutdoor Roamers

Already in Salento we had to think about how to get in Ecuador. Our original plan was to cycle to Mocoa and take the death road to get on the Pan-American highway and to cross the border at Ipiales. The death road, ‘Trampoline de la muerte’, is a 70 km long dirt road carved into…