So I decided to return to Huacho. Good run back and into hotel by 5.30

This is the sort of standard complete with ensuite. Usually for around £8/ night. Breakfast will probably be couple of pounds extra.

The view from the window is not always great.
This morning was very overcast but I set off for Lima. Google maps wanted me to go up the gravel road. I managed to get it to show me another route through Lima. Straight in stay on the panamerican highway bear left onto ave environmental and keep going straight. Easy. It wasn’t far before I ran into banks of fog. Stopped to put my jacket on and set off. It stayed like that to Lima. I was in and out of fog all the way. For most of the year Lima is overcast. It makes it look dirty with a lot of dust. It took me four hours to get through as it was chock a block. There were lots of scooters and small bikes weaving through sometimes having to paddle between cars leaning away from door mirrors. It wasn’t often that I was able to move much faster than the flow of traffic due to the size of the bike and the panniers.
I keep looking at the overhead gantry for any clue as to were I was. Although I was to go to the left the slip road was on the right so I got myself over and kept going. I passed a slip road that had no names on it that I recognised but as soon as I went under the flyover I knew that would probably have been the one. How to turn? A few miles down the road was another toll booth. I went through the bike lane and saw two motorcycle police. I stopped and explained and showed them the map. No problem. One officer who I think was senior told the other to lead me back. He set off to cross four lanes of traffic down to a break in the barriers. I was thinking surely not. We then crossed into another four lanes of traffic coming the opposite way. Anyway it seemed to work and I was taken back to the correct slip road. My stop start riding was not over as I still had a lot of small towns to go through before climbing into the mountains
The road climbs from Lima to La Oroya.

Lima is at sea level. La Oroya is15000 ft roughly. The mist had turned into full blown rain so I decided to stop. I was intending to stop but now it became a real point. I saw one place but didn’t like the look of. There was then a big restaurant with a hotel above it. This was at 10000 ft so gives a wee time to acclimatise. The lorries are hardly ever out of first or second gear. At one hairpin bend an artic was stuck because someone had tried to get passed at the same time.

Reckon the bike was safe.