Best rides from Lima
Three days, three destinations - tailored to the season and your riding style. Discover the incredible variety of climates, landscapes, and settings that surround Lima: from the towering Andes to valleys, deserts, and coastal trails. Because Lima’s coast and mountains have opposite seasons, the combination of destinations changes month by month, giving you fresh adventures all year round.
Level/skills: All, depending the mix of rides. Basic levels will ride shorter or easier sections.
Best rides from Lima
Three days, three destinations - tailored to the season and your riding style. Discover the incredible variety of climates, landscapes, and settings that surround Lima: from the towering Andes to valleys, deserts, and coastal trails. Because Lima’s coast and mountains have opposite seasons, the combination of destinations changes month by month, giving you fresh adventures all year round.
Level/skills: All, depending the mix of rides. Basic levels will ride shorter or easier sections.
3 GREAT STAGES
with some destinations to mix and match:
Pachacamac: Gravel routes through the valley (year-round) or singletracks (rainy season July–September). More info: Pacha Valley and Pacha Trails
Totoritas (XC): A ride through the Mala Valley with a short singletrack section—perfect as a rainy-season alternative to Pachacamac.
Olleros DH (singletrack or XC): The legendary descent from the Andes to the Pacific (rainy season January–March). More info: Olleros
Lomas de Asia: A blend of gravel (year-round) and singletracks (rainy season July–October).
Suggested combinations:
Pachacamac – Olleros DH – Lomas de Asia
Pachacamac – Totoritas – Lomas de Asia
When is Best Season
These rides have different seasons.
January to March is rainy season in the Andes, so Olleros is not able to drive and ride. Totoritas has no problem the whole year and Pachacamac and Asia from July to September have frequent rains that may make it hard to ride the singletracks, limited to some sections or just the gravel road.
WHAT´S INCLUDED:
Private transportation, lodging, guiding, mechanical basic aid, some snack food during the rides, hydration, vegan or any special diet is not supplied but we can arrange some stuff if the destination can support it.
Lodging will depend on the trails to choose and the route logistics needed.
NOT INCLUDED:
Medical, accident insurances, flights, shuttle transfers to starting or from the ending point, hotels before and after the trip, meals not specified on the trip plan.
BIKES: We suggest to bring yours, in that case we suggest a hardtail or a full suspension. Bikes are not included by default but if you need to rent some ask for the kind of bike we may supply and its cost.
CLOTHES: Helmet, gloves, sunglasses, backpack 2lt capacity, fresh clothes. The coast depending the season reaches 12°C to 30°C with very low possibility of rain, but a windvest is useful for the ride along to the coastline. Don´t forget sunscreen.
Trip Facts:
TERRAIN: All kind: Gravel roads and paths, paved road sections, singletracks.
ALTITUDES: Coast valley from sea level to 3,600m.
DIFFICULTY: Depending the trail to choose.
DISTANCES: An average of 30K to 70K per ride.
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TRAVEL CONDITIONS:
Any broken or damaged part of the bike or equipment, intentionally or not, caused by riders or terrain issues must get paid back at commercial prices (ex: frame, levers, gears, derailleur, tyres, wheels, helmet, gloves, etc).
Any injury caused by any reason during the ride is the full responsibility of the rider and any medical or transportation cost must be covered by the rider. This is an adventure sport activity subject by its nature to any kind of non-expected events.
