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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258 km from Pachas to Pachas, about 4 h 58 of riding. The stops in between: Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, Segment Ayash - Taulli and back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
The Qhapaq Ñan, the royal road of the Incas, linked an empire that stretched from what is now Colombia to Chile and Argentina, and in the highlands of Huánuco in central Peru one of its best-preserved stretches runs across the high puna between Tambo Chico and Taparaku.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is where the day begins. Next is Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Three and a half thousand metres up, on the cold grass plateau of the Peruvian Andes, the Incas built a city that was never meant to be a home. Huánuco Pampa was an administrative centre, a stop on the great road between Cusco and Quito, with a vast central plaza, an ushnu platform from which officials presided over ceremonies, rows of long halls for visitors and hundreds of storehouses lined up on the hillsides. The people who staffed it were moved in from elsewhere, and the labour they owed was paid in cloth, maize and llama wool that fed the road and the army.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash comes up about 35 km into the recorded legs. Next is Segment Ayash - Taulli.
East of the Cordillera Blanca, the Andes break into a jumble of high plateaus and deep valleys draining toward the Marañón and the Amazon, and the Inca road ran through this country on its way from Cusco to Quito. The Ayash to Taulli segment is a stretch of the Qhapaq Ñan in the highlands of Huánuco, near the town of Llata, part of the UNESCO-listed Andean road system. It runs through the puna, the high grassland above the tree line, where the wind blows cold and the views stretch for miles over ridges and valleys. In places, the original road survives, with stone paving, retaining walls, steps and drainage channels, and walking a section of it is the best way to understand how the Incas moved people and goods across this vertical landscape.
Read the complete Segment Ayash - Taulli write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 128 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Ayash - Taulli. Next is back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash, late in the day. Next is Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku. That is the ride.
Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku → Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Ayash - Taulli is 93 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Ayash - Taulli → back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Huánuco Pampa - Huaricashash → Segment Tambo Chico - Taparaku is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.