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 257 km round trip from Juli - roughly 4 h 39 in the saddle. The stops in between: Segment Desaguadero Titijoni, Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta and back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,150 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.
Juli sits on the south-western shore of Lake Titicaca at close to 3,900 metres, and the air is so thin and clear that the far side of the lake, in Bolivia, seems close enough to touch. The town is nicknamed the Rome of the Americas for its cluster of colonial churches, built by Dominican and Jesuit missionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with carved stone façades and dim interiors full of paintings. Just outside town, the segment of Inca road between Juli and Cruz Pata Ccaje is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Andean road system inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 2014. This route, the Urcosuyu branch, ran along the lake towards what is now Bolivia.
Read the complete Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is where the day begins. Next is Segment Desaguadero Titijoni.
At around 3,800 metres above sea level the air on the Altiplano is thin enough to make lacing your boots feel like exercise, and Desaguadero is a place where you should take everything at half speed. The town sits on the border between Peru and Bolivia at the southern end of Lake Titicaca, where the Desaguadero river drains the lake toward the south. The segment of old road near Titijoni is part of the Qhapaq Ñan, the Inca road network listed by UNESCO in 2014, which ran along the shores of Titicaca on its way between Cusco and the southern provinces.
Read the complete Segment Desaguadero Titijoni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni comes up about 69 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta.
On the Bolivian altiplano, a few dozen kilometres west of La Paz, the old Inca road runs across a plateau lifted nearly four thousand metres into the sky. This segment of the Qhapaq Ñan is part of the road network that UNESCO recognised in 2014, and it passes near Tiwanaku, the great pre-Inca city whose carved gateways and monoliths stand on the flat plain close to Lake Titicaca. An apacheta is a cairn of stones left by travellers at a pass or a high point, each stone a small offering to the mountain spirits, the apus, and the habit has not died, so you will still find them piled by the roadside, sometimes with coca leaves or a bottle of alcohol beside.
Read the complete Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 126 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta. Next is back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Desaguadero Titijoni write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni, late in the day. Next is Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje. That is the ride.
Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje → Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta is 57 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta → back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 69 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.