Then I hitched on down the coast from Trujillo, before turning east into the mountains and the town of Huaraz at 3100m above sea level.
Probably my favourite ever hitchhiking photo. This couple, who from the way they were dressed and the blissful smiles on their faces, were clearly on their way to get married, emerged from a modest hotel at the edge of Trujillo where I was standing looking for a ride and wandered off together towards town in the baking heat. ♡
Hitching in a convoy of truckers, taking a ridiculous detour through the fields to avoid paying a toll.
Desert, out of the moving truck.
Horizon.
A tollbooth we couldn’t avoid.
Holy shit, a curve in the road!
Up the mountains or down the coast?
Then dizzying altitude at 4200m before we dropped down into Huaraz. The highest pass I’ve ever hitchhiked!
There goes the road.
Coming straight up from the coast, it was windy and very cold.
Then ten days of relaxing and enjoying myself in Huaraz yielded only this photo…
…and this one.
And that’s all you’re getting.
Total distance hitchhiked: 64,550 km.
Total number of rides: 465.