CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Zepita it runs 262 km to Zepita; allow about 4 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata, Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o and back through Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Peru into Bolivia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
At close to four thousand metres, on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca, the air is thin enough that walking briskly feels like work and the light is so sharp it seems to sharpen the edges of everything. This stretch belongs to the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Andean road network that the Inca built and extended across their empire, and here it runs through Aymara farming country between the towns of Yunguyo and Desaguadero, both about twenty kilometres away, with the Bolivian border a short distance east.
Read the complete Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is where the day begins. Next is Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan, the great Inca road network, that survives on the high plateau beside Lake Titicaca. The Inca built roads like these across the Andes, stone-paved, with drainage, retaining walls and way stations, to link their empire from Colombia to Chile. On the Peruvian shore near Pomata the road passes through country that was Aymara long before the Incas arrived, and the same communities farm potatoes, quinoa and barley today. The Qhapaq Ñan has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, with sections in six countries.
Read the complete Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o.
Tiwanaku is the most important archaeological site in Bolivia, and standing in the middle of it at nearly 3,900 metres, with the thin air making you light-headed, it is easy to feel why. This was the spiritual and political heart of a civilisation that rose around Lake Titicaca between about 500 and 1000 AD, and at its peak it controlled a territory that reached into modern Peru and Chile. UNESCO inscribed it in 2000.
Read the complete Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 131 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o. Next is back through Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata, late in the day. Next is Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua. That is the ride.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata → Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o is 97 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o → back through Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is 95 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata → Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.