CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Huachis it runs 462 km to Huachis; allow about 15 h 00 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata, Segment Huaricashash - Isco, Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash and Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, the Andes break into a jumble of high plateaus and deep valleys draining toward the Marañón and the Amazon, and the Inca road ran through this country on its way from Cusco to Quito. The Ayash to Taulli segment is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan in the highlands of Huánuco, near the town of Llata, part of the UNESCO-listed Andean road system. It runs through the puna, the high grassland above the tree line, where the wind blows cold and the views stretch for miles over ridges and valleys. In places, the original road survives, with stone paving, retaining walls, steps and drainage channels, and walking a section of it is the best way to understand how the Incas moved people and goods across this vertical landscape.
Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
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Segment Ayash - Taulli is where the day begins. Next is Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the great road network of the Inca Empire, ran for thousands of kilometres along the Andes, linking the capital Cusco with the far corners of an empire that stretched from Colombia to Chile. In the department of Huánuco, in central Peru, one of its best preserved sections crosses the high puna between the administrative centre of Huánuco Pampa and the valleys to the north, and the segment between Taparaku and the Tambo de Llata is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
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Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata comes up 25 km in. Next is Segment Huaricashash - Isco.
La Union is a small market town in a high valley of the Huanuco Region, in the central Peruvian Andes, and the Huaricashash to Isco segment lies about eleven kilometres from it, in a landscape of steep terraced hillsides, eucalyptus groves and distant snow peaks. It is the same Inca road network as the neighbouring segments, but this stretch sits close to the greatest Inca site in the region.
Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
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50 km in you reach Segment Huaricashash - Isco. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Huanuco Pampa is a place that makes you feel small. On a high plateau at around 3,700 metres, in the central Peruvian Andes, the Incas built one of their largest administrative centres, on the great highway that ran north from Cusco toward Quito. Archaeologists have counted hundreds of storehouses on the surrounding hillsides, once filled with maize, textiles and weapons, and the ruins of a huge central plaza, with a platform called the usnu from which the Inca or his representative could watch ceremonies. It is part of the Qhapaq Nan, the Andean road system recognised by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
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Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, about halfway. Next is Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the royal road of the Incas, linked an empire that stretched from what is now Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and in the highlands of Huánuco in central Peru one of its best-preserved stretches runs across the high puna between Tambo Chico and Taparaku.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
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Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
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Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
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back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash comes up 124 km in. Next is back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco.
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Read the complete Segment Huaricashash - Isco write-up.
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149 km in you reach back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco. Next is back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata.
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Read the complete Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata write-up.
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back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata, late in the day. Next is Segment Ayash - Taulli.
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Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
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The route ends here after 462 km.
Segment Ayash - Taulli → Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huaricashash - Isco → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 33 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huaricashash - Isco → back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Taparaku - Tambo de Llata → Segment Ayash - Taulli is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.