01 · Mexico▲ Beginner
Electric Guajolota
A day on an e-bike through the Desierto de los Leones. You leave the city in the morning and you're back by evening.
- Length
- 1 day
- Departs
- Mexico City
- Price
- $150 – $180 USD
What Banga is
We build the trip with you. We don't sell you a finished one.
Fifteen years guiding. Small groups: seven as a rule, three on the day trip, so the trip moves around you instead of the other way round. If you're coming as a private group, we adjust it with you. Bike, foot or water: whatever the ground asks for and whatever you want to do.
15+years guiding
3–7people per group
2countries · Mexico and Peru
The trips
Three ways to start.
02 · Peru▲▲▲ Advanced
Andes Peru
Eight days between Cusco and the Sacred Valley, almost all of it downhill. This is the big one.
- Length
- 8 days
- Descent
- 8,639 m
- Price
- $2,720 – $3,420 USD
03 · Oaxaca▲▲ Intermediate
Tlayuda Ride and Connect
Seven days in the Sierra Norte, based in cabins in the forest. Two-thousand-meter descents, a temazcal, and tlayudas.
- Length
- 7 days
- Departs
- Oaxaca de Juárez
- Price
- Ask us
Ways in
Who are you coming with?
On your own
1 or 2 people
The guide is yours. The pace is yours. If you want to stop at a lookout for two hours, we stop.
With your people
2 to 7
You gather your people and we build the trip with you, on dates that work for you.
With new people
7 maximum
You join a date that's already open. Small group, nobody there who doesn't want to be.
The grades on each trip are real. If you don't fit the one you want, we'll tell you. We'd rather lose a sale than ruin your trip.
Where Banga comes from
bhaṅga-ñāṇa
pali · dissolution
You forget you have a body.
It doesn't happen often and it doesn't last, sometimes three seconds. You stop thinking about your hands, your gear, what comes next. You're not enjoying the moment: you're inside it.
It isn't a new word: the Pali Buddhist texts were already using it. That's where Banga comes from.
We can't promise it to you, and anyone who promises it is having you on. But it's what we're going for every time we ride out.
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