CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 680 km round trip from Conchucos - roughly 15 h 00 in the saddle. The stops in between: Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H, Río Abiseo National Park and back through Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Some roads you can still feel. At this part of the northern Peruvian Andes, the old Inca road survives as a worn stone staircase and a retaining wall, the surface polished by centuries of llamas and sandals, with drainage channels still carrying water off the path. It belongs to the Qhapaq Nan, the Inca road system that was listed by UNESCO in 2014, and this segment, which the label ties to two places called Pariachuco and Tauli, shows what the engineering was like at its best. Where a slope was steep, the builders cut steps; where a cliff was in the way, they cut a ledge; where a stream crossed, they set stepping stones or built a bridge of stone slabs.
Read the complete Segment Pariachuco - Tauli write-up.
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Segment Pariachuco - Tauli is where the day begins. Next is Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H.
Huamachuco is a big market town in the highlands of La Libertad, at about 3,200 metres, and it has been an important place for much longer than the Incas. On the hills above the town, the ruins of Marcahuamachuco spread across a long ridge, with huge stone walls and galleries that were raised during the first millennium AD, in a culture that flourished at the same time as the Wari empire and ruled the northern highlands. A big part of the stonework still stands, including a long building called the Castillo, with three storeys of stone galleries. The Incas arrived much later, in the fifteenth century, and ran their road system through the area, and parts of the Qhapaq Ñan around Huamachuco are among those listed by UNESCO in 2014.
Read the complete Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H write-up.
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Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H comes up 89 km in. Next is Río Abiseo National Park.
Río Abiseo National Park covers a large block of the eastern Andes in the San Martín region of Peru, a tangle of steep cloud forest and high grassland where the mountains fall away toward the Amazon basin. It was set up in 1983 and is a World Heritage site for both its nature and its archaeology. Much of it has never been properly explored, and the interior is reachable only on foot after days of travel, with permits from the authorities.
Read the complete Río Abiseo National Park write-up.
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179 km in you reach Río Abiseo National Park. Next is back through Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H, late in the day. Next is Segment Pariachuco - Tauli.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Pariachuco - Tauli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Pariachuco - Tauli. That is the ride.
Segment Pariachuco - Tauli → Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H → Río Abiseo National Park is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Río Abiseo National Park → back through Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H is 115 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Segment Escalerilla/ Casa Blanca - Cerro H → Segment Pariachuco - Tauli is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.