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 241 km round trip from Juli - roughly 4 h 23 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua, Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o and back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua. 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. The line favours views over speed.
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 Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua.
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 comes up about 50 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 121 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o. Next is back through 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 through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua, 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 Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o → back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 70 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Segment Juli-Cruz Pata-Ccaje is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.