Information on the Journey
Here is the second part of my motorbike journey in the Americas.
This trip is a great journey exploring the Americas. Even though it's really only one trip, I split it in three parts on this site in order to lighten each section.
| Quebec to Panama 2017-2019 | USA, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica (a tiny region), Panama. |
| South America 2019-2023 | all the countries in the continent, except Venezuela, unless the political turmoil comes to an end. This journey was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic for more than 2 years. |
| South America 2024-202x | Panama (the mountains), Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Baja California in Mexico, ???) |
Some data
Travelling solo
| Regions visited: | Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname |
| When? | From May 14, 2019. The stop in Québec, starting in January 2020, has become a forced break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Timeline:
| Colombia | 10 days |
| Ecuador | 2 months 26 days |
| Peru | 2 months 6 days |
| Chile | 1 month 2 days |
| Bolivia | 10 days |
| Chile | 1 month 2 days |
| Argentina | 2 months 27 days |
| At home | 2 years 2 months 22 days |
| Bolivia | 1 month 26 days |
| Peru | 1 month 3 days |
| Argentina | 2 months |
| Travel Time: | 1 year 4 months 1 day |
| Not travelling: | 2 years 2 months 22 days |
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| Total: | 3 years 6 months 25 days |
Technical Data
Travellers with a Canadian passport. TIP = Temporary Import Permit.
Ecuador (May 2019)
| VISA | 3 months, at the border, free. |
| VEHICULE | TIP at the border, 3 months, free. |
| CURRENCY | US Dollar - $US 1 = 1.34 CAD |
| INSURANCE | Not necessary. |
| PETROL | $US 0.74-0.84 / litre (92 octane) - Diesel is around $US 0.30-0.40 /litre. |
