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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A 160 km round trip from Puños - roughly 3 h 32 in the saddle. It goes by way of Segment Taulli - Tambillo, Chavin and back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The high Andes of central Peru are less visited than the Cusco region, but the Incas were here too, and the old royal road, the Qhapaq Nan, runs through the mountains of Huanuco Region, with segments surviving in the hills above the towns of Llata and La Union.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is where the day begins. Next is Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
In the high valleys of Huánuco, north of Lima and east of the great white wall of the Cordillera Blanca, an Inca road crosses a landscape of stone-walled fields and thatched farms. The Qhapaq Ñan ran north from Cusco to Quito by way of an inland route, and one of its major administrative centres was Huánuco Pampa, a vast planned town on a plateau at about 3,700 metres, with a great plaza, storehouses and barracks, where the emperor's officials gathered tribute and fed travelling armies. Segments of the road around Llata, in the Huamalíes province, connect with that old network.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Chavin.
Three thousand years ago, priests at Chavín de Huántar led pilgrims into a labyrinth of dark stone galleries beneath a temple, where at the heart of the maze stood a carved granite pillar, the Lanzón, depicting a fanged deity. The Chavín culture, flourishing between roughly 1200 and 500 BC, spread its art and religious ideas across much of the Andes, and its temple complex in the Mosna valley is one of the most important archaeological sites in South America, inscribed by UNESCO in 1985. Look out for the cabezas clavas, carved stone heads that once projected from the temple walls, showing a transformation from human to jaguar or bird.
Read the complete Chavin write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Chavin. Next is back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Taulli - Tambillo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo, late in the day. Next is Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash. That is the ride.
Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash → Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Chavin is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Chavín → back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Taulli - Tambillo → Segment Inka Hamash - Ayash is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.