 Oh my god, look at this cliff! A little bit more dodgy than I would like. Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ, whoa! Where is it going? I have no idea, and I have no idea where this mountain is now. Hi, I'm Lavi. And I'm Oli. And this is our hero, Bumblebee. Together, we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Join us for season three here in South America. Poor Bumblebee got so muddy yesterday. Oh my god. So we are just cleaning off a little bit the mud from the chain, and then we will oil it again. But yeah, I mean... I think this is the muddiest that Bumblebee has ever been. Really, look at it. It's absolutely covered from yesterday. I'm sorry, Bumblebee. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 321 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the town of Sikwani in Peru. And we got here last night when there was a crazy storm just rolling in. There was actually hail coming down right here. The entire ground was white covered in hailstones. But luckily the first place we tried, this place here had a room for us. So we were able to have a really, really, really cozy and peaceful night in the end. It was the best room ever with the best bed and the pillows. Everything was so nice. But it's looking a lot, lot nicer today. We have blue skies again. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here. And today we are gonna be following this road up to Checa Coupe where we're gonna turn off and apparently see some colorful mountains before returning back to Checa Coupe and continuing up that road to finish the day in Cusco. Yes, we're going to Rainbow Mountain. It's a destination we were waiting for a long, long time. So I really can't wait to go and visit this place. Our navigation says it takes about two hours and it's already 8.40 so better hit the road. Let's go. Bienvenidos a la ciudad de Cicpani. Yeah. Gracias. Oh, look at this. The kid is a little gamer. Oh, okay, gracias, ciao. Nice, what a beautiful day. And this morning we finally finished our chocolate cake, massive amount of chocolate cake that we bought in Bolivia. We bought it, no? Yes, yes. I just asked and they said that this was 10 Bolivianos. 10 Bolivianos is like one pound 30 or something. So we said, yeah, we'll have it. It took us, I think, two weeks. There's like five giant logs of cake that were like sort of chocolate and vanilla. And we're just having them day after day after day. Oh, I'm not buying this anymore. But I'm so glad that it's not raining anymore. I'm so glad the storm's over and it looks like the perfect day for us to go and visit some lovely Rainbow Mountains. Oh, for sure. And I'm so excited because I have seen the pictures of the Rainbow Mountain a long time ago. And I was like, oh, it's so nice. I want to see it. And now finally the day has arrived. So we have about 50 miles to get there, but Google Maps says that will probably take us about two hours. So let's count on a little bit of traffic, some windy roads, probably some dirt roads, but we will get there. Fingers crossed. This is a sign for Panaderia. You can see if we can grab something for lunch. Let me see what they've got. Hola. Hola, pan con queso. See? Oh, okay. Perfect. See, um, says pan con queso. See? Gracias. Oh, gracias. Mmm, gracias. Mmm. Look at all this bread. Oh, thank you. No, para ti. It's okay, para ti. Gracias. Beautiful homemade bread with some cheese on top. Can't get better than that. You know, I have to try it. You have to try? Yeah. Ha, ha, ha. All right, let's eat some cheese bread. So according to the Garmin, we're coming up to the turnoff just here. I think that's right. Looks like they had carnival here as well. Look at this. This is beautiful. Oh, and look at the street. It's absolutely beautiful. Cool. She goes straight here, then we will join this road to the rainbow mountain. Yeah, I think that's going to be the road up into the mountains. Uh-oh. I'm just surprised that there's no, like, signs or anything saying like, you know, it's a pretty famous attraction in Peru. You would have thought there'd be a thing saying like, this is the rainbow mountain up here. Yeah. Oh, look, they've got, like, either sheep or llama pelts. Wow. Or alpaca. It looked like the skin was still on there. Yeah, yeah, I think it's the whole skin. It's not like the, it's not like just the wool. I think that was the whole... Crazy. Skin. Every single speed bump. Yes. Look at all women's wearing this hat here. They love that hat. I love that hat too. Oh, there you go. That's the end of the page section, then. I think so. Oh, no. So we still have 17 miles to get up to the rainbow mountain parking, or at least what it says on Ioverlander is the rainbow mountain parking. Yeah, let's see how we get on, eh? Hey, Ioverlander has never failed us before. Hola, venas. What a beautiful little track just running down in the valley by the river. Beautiful. I just sure hope that we're on the right road. Yeah, me too. Because we haven't seen a single sign saying, yeah, this way, this way, no, we're just following this little red track. Yeah, and compared to the pictures of the rainbow mountain, I mean, this area here doesn't look at all like that, you know, so. I know, I have no idea where we're going, but we can only hope that when we get 13 miles down this track, there it will be rainbow mountain. Yes, but anyway, really stunning area here. Yeah, it absolutely is. Oh, hold on, some puddles. Okay, it looks like we're leaving the river now and the switchbacks have begun. Looks like we're starting to climb. Yeah. Oh yeah, look at this. I still hope that we took the right road. Me too, oh no. Oh man. But so far, we haven't really seen any other cars. If this is a tourist destination, I mean, this is not a very popular one. Crazy and still people living here and building here on the side of the mountain. Oh, that's incredible. Our first herd of mountain alpaca for the day. Yeah. This is a dog, be careful of them. Yeah. Oh, this one just there. Oh, so cute. So landslide, but we have enough room to pass, like a leap. We're climbing up definitely. Oh yeah, now we are. We're getting a little bit butterflies. Oh no. Did I mention I don't really like heights too much? Oh my God. Okay, I'm staying on this side. Yeah. Please, please don't be a truck coming. Wow. Oh, look at this. Epic. Oh my goodness. That's crazy. We're getting closer. Yeah. I still can't imagine that in three miles we're getting to a rainbow mountain. But anyway, oh my God, look at this cliff. Be careful, yeah. Oh my goodness. Yeah. It is a kind of hairy ride. Like it's nice and pleasant, but sometimes a little bit challenging. Yeah, some pretty big cliff drops. Yeah. And we're going through some pretty big gorges on the way, but man, it is spectacular though. Yeah, spectacular. But you wouldn't really want to come up here in like a camper van or something. No, not really. Haven't had a nice road like this, like nice and challenging road like this in a long time. Normally the roads are just challenging and not nice. Yeah. It's pretty stunning. Okay, so I overlander says that this road is actually a new road to get to a higher parking, which is a little bit closer to Rainbow Mountain. So this is the road we're going to try and take. But yeah, we'll have to see how it is. Yeah. It looks like he's going to have a lot of switchbacks. We're just deciding if we're going to continue up because I mean, this track looks a little bit dodgy. It's pretty gravelly and look at the drop over here. We also read on I overlander that even when you get to the car park at the top of this hill, it's still like a one and a half to three hour hike to actually get to the mountain, which we didn't really realize actually. So we're not 100% sure if it's worth us to try and take on this road. Some comments said this was a pretty gnarly road to get up to the parking. So I don't know. I don't have hiking shoes. I have flip-flops. I lost two pair of shoes since we started the trip. But it's a difficult one because I really, really wanted to see it, but I didn't really know how hard it is to get there. A little bit more dodgy than I would like. Okay, we've decided we're at least going to try and get up to the parking and see if we can at least see the mountain, even if we don't hike to it, or at least just get to the parking and come back down again. Yeah. Let's continue, shall we? Yeah. I'm going to stay on the inside and we'll see how we get on. Yeah. Just going nice and easy, nice and slow. Yeah. And I'm not looking on the edge. No. By the way, there is actually a river here that we have to cross. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Okay, just go, go, go, go, go, go. Okay, very good, very good. Ha ha. Oh my goodness. And now we've got some switchbacks coming up. I think there's like four major switchbacks. So, see how we get on with those. Yeah. Very good, very good. Yes. Yes. Very good. Oh. Ha ha ha. You know, I think if we can just get to the car park, we can say we've done as much as we can, right? At least with Bumblebee, that's as far as we can go. Okay, let's go round, round, round, round, round. Second switchback. Very good. Very good. Okay, let's go on the outside here. To the inside. Outside, inside. Racing line. Yeah, real racing line. Very great, great job. Very good. Ha ha ha. Yeah. You know, for the new roads to the Rainbow Mountain Parking, it's not exactly the greatest of new roads, hey? Yeah, landslides, I think. Yeah. I mean, look at this bit. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Whoa, okay. Okay, yep, yep, yep, good, good, good. Ha ha ha. Okay, I think this is our last switchback. Sort of, yeah, our last cliff-facing switchback coming up in a minute. Yeah. Ha ha ha. And then I think we're home free. Yes. Nice. You can already sort of see multi-colors along the cliff over there, though. Look at that. Red rock, green plants. Ha ha ha ha. This is much of a Rainbow Mountain, as we need, hey? One, two, three, four, five. Uh-huh. Bravo. So these locals just came running over. Apparently, it's five solace each to enter. Okay, days, days. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. Perfect. Perfecto. But the whole village was like running over. Yeah. Seeing us coming, they were like, Look. Tourists, tourists. We've been the only people that I've seen the entire time. So, yeah, yeah. I wonder. Not frequently visited. I wonder if there are people. Maybe we need the ticket here. Yeah. To get past the gate. Okay. Hola, buenas. Buenos. Apparently, there's now another ticket, my love. Look at this, we've got another ticket, my love. Yeah. Not excited about that. Oh, man. So at first I was like, no worries. Five, five, and now it's 20, 20. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Cinco minutos, okay. Okay, muchas gracias. Anyway, he said it's just five more minutes up here, and then we're there. Okay. So whether or not we can actually see it, I don't know, but we'll find out in a minute. Yeah. Where is it going? I have no idea. And I have no idea where this mountain is now. I'm really confused. Anyway, we'll keep following the trail. Yeah. I think this is the car park, because it says here. I think so too. It says prohibited entry and less authorised. Oh, okay. And that road is definitely not a car road. So I think this is the top. Hmm. Yeah. Rainbow mountain, hello. Okay, let's have a little look around and see if we can find someone. There were some fellas here, like painting a house or building this house here. I just asked them, they said that we can't go up with the motorbike, but we can go up with an ATV, but there's no one here to drive the ATV, I think. So he said, wait here, he's gonna see what he can do. Okay, so the guys told us that there's no one around, and I guess they don't have the keys to the ATVs. So I guess this is as far as we can get, because the weather is not good enough for us to start like a two hour hike up there. So no, no, we are really bad prepared, and I can see over there, the rain is coming already. Oh my God, yeah, it is on the other side of that valley. But we had a cool idea. We are gonna try and fly the drone from here and see if we can at least fly the drone to the rainbow mountain. So let's give it a go. Yeah, so it looked like something here. Yeah, I can start to see something. Look, look, look, there's rainbow mountain. And there we are down there, rainbow mountain there. We are there. Very close. Close enough. Bye bye, beautiful rainbow mountain. We actually realized that just up there is actually it. That is actually the rainbow mountain right there. So we can actually just about see it with our own eyes. Yes. But at least we were there in drone spirit. Exactly, thank you, Mr. Brain. So now we really, really, really have to get down from the mountain because if you've been watching our series so far, you've seen that we've been stuck high altitude with some really bad weather quite a few times. Yeah. So we tried to get here as early as we could, but it is the rainy season in Peru and it does not look that great. So, man, let's just start making our way down, hey. Yes, we are on really high altitude at the moment, 4,800 meters and the weather can change in minutes, you know. Yeah. Starting to get some rain jobs on the helmet. Uh-oh. Not good. It's not good. Because look, this road looks like it would turn into just rivers of mud, basically. Yeah, mud rivers. It's definitely not the kind of road that I really want to be riding if it starts to rain heavily. No. So we desperately, desperately need to get down now. Man, the weather's not on our side, hey. Okay, here we have to be careful here. Yeah, this is our switchback number one. Very good. Yes, very good. Whoo. Yeah, I'm not taking that one fast. Ha ha ha. Come on, rain, stay away. Just for another literally like, I think 15 minutes and we'll be back down from this bit at least and onto the gravel road. Jesus, come on. Ooh, that looks rough here. Yep, it is rough here. Let's stay on the inside. Yeah, just remember if we're falling, just dive to the left. Okay. Yeah, just through it. Yep. Yeah. Now we've got like a few switchbacks to bring us down and the bottom is over there. Yeah. Take the outside, try and cut into the inside. Yes. And not down there. Okay. Take the inside as much as possible. Yes. Okay, cross the river. Yeah, this was a bit of a dodgy one as well. Yeah. I think there was a landslide or something going on. Up or down? I don't know. Up? Yeah. Yes, the valley floor is coming. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Nearly, oh. Okay. Yeah. Whoo. Okay, a little bit of a gravel slide there. Dodgy. A little bit of a heart attack just before the end. Oh, yep. Yes. Good. Whoo, okay. We've reached the valley floor, but the journey back to the main road is definitely not over yet. But it's definitely, definitely a little bit better here. This is a gravel road instead of a mud road. So I think from here on, we should be all right. Let's hope for the best. Starting to get a little bit further down now and the rain has eased up quite a bit, which is good. Yeah, really lucky. Yeah, I was worried that it was gonna get worse and worse and worse, but yeah. It got better. Oh, look at these houses. Traditional mud brick houses. That's really, really charming, actually. I like it. Yeah, I like it too. Hello, Doggy. This dog's like taking a ride. A free ride. That must be a really bouncy ride, though. Nice. I'll be back down. There we go. Woo! The end of our dirt road adventure. Oh, Jesus, bash plate. But that means we should be joining the main road in a minute and that will take us onwards to Crisco on bash plate. So we're just stopping here in Czechocoupé, which is basically the town, the entrance town for Rainbow Mountain. And there's a couple of places here, so we're gonna see if we can get a bite to eat because I'm super hungry. Vegetariano? None of it. None of it? No food there. No. No food there, no food there. No food for us. We'll have to try some more else. So we just found ourselves another place and we asked if they could do us a sandwich. And she said, she doesn't have any bread. So I said, we've got bread, no worries. And they said, I haven't got any eggs. Okay, so what do you have? And she says, I've got some cheese. Oh, and she has chips. So basically, we're gonna have our bread with her cheese and her chips and some coffees. So we can kind of piece together a lunch. We've got... Yeah? No. I'm trying, I'm trying. There's a bunch of people around the bike and Lavi's gone out to say hello. I don't know what she's doing. I'm gonna forget about me. We're good, we're good. Hi Lavi, yes sir. They're trying to steal it or what? I went to them with my batanaif. Beautiful lunch. And here is one of the many, many, many blockages that was caused by the protests. Wow, that's crazy. So we passed by quite a few of these already, but mostly they've been cleared back to the side. But you can see there were tires on fire here. You can see that they've sort of excavated the whole hill and just chucked it on the road. Super crazy. Yeah, wow. Yeah, January was a really crazy time in Peru. Yeah. So now we've got 55 miles to get to Cusco. We booked a hotel with a free breakfast. Because we're just luxury people now. Totally. No, it literally cost about 11, 12 pounds a night. We really, really have to catch up with some editing. We have been on the road now for six days. All the way since we left La Paz. We've just been going, going, going, going. Long, long distances, long, long days. So I'm really ready to have a break. Bienvenidos a Cusco. So our hotel is about two miles away. Whilst we're riding in, I thought I'd give you some facts about the wonderful historical center of Peru. So Cusco was actually the center of the Inca empire. But now the city has a population of 430,000 people and is a major, major touristic center here in Peru, basically because of its proximity to Machu Picchu. But this entire area, not just Machu Picchu, this entire area is steeped in Inca history and ruins and archeological sites. And the city of Cusco itself is actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Apparently our hotel is one of these. So we're on the right street, but we just can't find the place. Calle Fidelanda, B10B. What do you think? Well, here we go. No way. Have I got to go down there? Oh my goodness. Hola, buenas. Let's go out a little bit and then in. Okay. Let me see. Yes, a little ramp on the right. Okay, ready? Oh my goodness. That ramp must be like on the limit of what you can actually do. Hey, we made it. Have been alive and a little bit exhausted, but check out our nice room. We've got a chair, we've got a coffee table, which we bought some chamomile tea. We are so wild. I would say this is one of the nicest quality rooms we've had for the cheapest price, like 12 pounds for this. This is a massive space. Really, really happy about that. And we have an incredibly nice view as well. But it's been a really, really long six days. I can really feel it, especially since we were on all the winding roads in Peru. Like, because I'm having to change gear all the time, like down for the speed bumps, down for the bends, up, down, up, down, up, down. Like my knee, my ankle, my foot, all on the left side. I'm pretty sore, my back is sore. We've just been on the bike, I think, for too long. Yeah, it was pretty hectic the last six days and we are ready for a rest. And that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so, please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, share the video with your friends and family. Comment below and we will see you next time.