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Cycling South America: 8 Epic Climbs and Descents
Feature photo credit: Antonio Olinto Ferreira Over the past 10-20 years, as cycle touring’s popularity has taken off, so too have the numbers of long distance adventurers who have set their sights on...
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Cycling the Surreal Bolivian Salt Flats
>>More about Cycling the Salt Flats on the 2017 South American Epic The Bolivian Salt Flats are one of the iconic cycling environs that many cycle travelers have on their bucket list. Where else...
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Cycling the Bolivian Salt Flats: Breaking it Down by the Numbers
Salar de Uyuni – the Salt Flats of Bolivia. At 10,582 square kilometres, it is the largest Salt Flat in the world. This is quite likely one of the toughest sections on what is the world’s longest...
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Exploring Machu Picchu on the South American Epic
One of the highlights of any visit to South America is Machu Picchu. This ancient part-time residence of the Incan leader Pachacuti was built and populated in the 15th century, before being...
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Colombia’s Crazy Cycling Culture
When a group of cyclists from bike-mad countries like Holland, Belgium and Denmark are impressed with the cycling culture in certain city, you know that you are on to something big. That is exactly...
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Countless Reasons to Cycle Colombia Now
It was roughly four years ago when the staff at the TDA head office sat down to discuss our South American cycling route. Our first Vuelta Sudamericana in 2009 took a very unorthodox route, starting...
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Top 6 Underrated Tour Sections
Are you feeling anxious about one of our popular tour sections filling up and don’t want to be left out of the best bits of our epic adventures? Have no fear. Here is our list of the least noticed...
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Two Continents: 2 Exciting TDA Global Cycling Expeditions
Today, in Paris, France and Cartagena, Colombia two groups of cyclists, separated by 8,246 km, are each starting out on a cycling adventure that they will remember for the rest of their lives. The...
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Cartagena
“Who’s more foolish, the fool, or the fool that follows him”. When thinking about the second edition of the South American Epic, it is this salient quote from the great Obi-Wan Kenobi that best sums...
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¡Mucho Gusto Colombia!
The South American Epic riders have made it safely to the city of Bogota, capital of Colombia, situated in the centre of the country 2644 m higher than where we started on the Caribbean coast in...
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The Middle of the World
“Ecuador, Ecuador, Ecuador!” Says the Colombian border crossing official as I inform him that, yes, I intend to cross into Ecuador. Perhaps he has had too much time of hearing about Ecuador everyday,...
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Unboliviable
My partner in life Ruth lost her mother last week after a long illness. As is traditional in our neck of the woods, people come to spend a few minutes or hours with the mourner. Among the...
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Quito to Lima on the South American Epic
The rapidly changing landscapes, scenery, and environments of the South American Epic can be best summarized by the day before the Peruvian capital of Lima. The Panamericana highway in northern Peru...
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6 Hotly Contested Strava Segments by TDA Cyclists
As you might know, we have a club on Strava open to anyone interested in global cycling routes. On any given day you can see leaderboards full of big rides happening on various continents around the...
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Wine and Dine Like an Argentine
Following up from our last Argentina reflection, here is another from Will from the South American Epic. Bolivia was memorable for the dramatic mountain views surrounding La Paz, the wind-swept...
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Staff Profile: Adrian Wood
Take a look behind the scenes at who our staff are helping to shepherd the cyclists from Cartagena to Ushuaia on the South American Epic. Here Britten interviews Adrian Wood. Hometown: Torquay,...
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Tubular Times with TDA
You may recall that tour medic Irin’s post from Northern Argentina. Here is tour staff Will explaining some more of that dramatic time of the tour. The South American Epic is now in the Lake District...
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Just Another Day on the South American Epic
Cycling in the Lake District on the South American Epic, Henry Gold gives us his first post. It is never easy to describe the appeal of TDA tours. Take today, a ride from Chanco to San Nicholas, a...
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Summing up Santiago
While it may seem to some ‘just like any other city’ in North America, it is like no other city in South America The cyclists on the South American Epic just completed the Lake District section on...
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Eyes Ahead: Patagonia Looming
Communications director Britten took a well deserved break from the tour and traveled ahead into Patagonia and came back with this report. The South American Epic heads onto the Carretera Austral...
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