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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 178 km round trip from Pomata - roughly 3 h 00 in the saddle. It goes by way of Segment Desaguadero Titijoni, Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o and back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,100 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.
On the southern shore of Lake Titicaca, between Juli and the Bolivian border, the Inca road ran along the edge of the lake at nearly four thousand metres, linking Cusco with the lands of Collasuyu, the southern quarter of the empire. The Pomata section of the Qhapaq Ñan, part of the World Heritage listing of the Inca road system, follows the shore through Aymara villages, terraced hills and fields of potatoes, quinoa and broad beans, with the immense blue lake always beside you. The light at this altitude is intense, the air thin and dry, and the lake changes colour with every passing cloud.
Read the complete Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca 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 47 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 89 km into the recorded legs you reach Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o. 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 Pomata-Chaca Chaca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca. That is the ride.
Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca → Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o → back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.