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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223 km from Tiahuanaco to Tiahuanaco, about 4 h 04 of riding. On the way it passes Segment Desaguadero Titijoni, Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata 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 Bolivia into Peru - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta 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 57 km into the recorded legs. 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.
about 110 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata. 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 Kallamarka-Apacheta.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta. That is the ride.
Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta → Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 57 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ccaje-Sisipampa-Pomata → back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 55 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Kallamarka-Apacheta is 57 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.