Lección Ocho: Guevara y Granado

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. He is best known for being a political revolutionary: he worked closely with Fidel Castro during Cuba's revolution. But before he met Castro, Che Guevara and his childhood friend Alberto Granado traveled around South America on an old motorcycle.


Guevara and Alberto Granado planned to spend three weeks at a leprosarium, or leper colony, in San Pablo, Peru.

The pair set off from Alberto's home in Córdoba, Argentina, in the winter of 1951. As they left Granado's home, they nearly drove into a street car while the whole Granado family watched. After the near-accident, Granado and Guevara traveled to Buenos Aires to see Guevara's parents.

The Motorcycle Diaries is a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara,

I personally think the two travling across the country was epic. They were brave to do all that travling on an old motorcycle!