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 200 km round trip from Tiahuanaco - roughly 3 h 39 in the saddle. On the way it passes Segment Desaguadero Titijoni, Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua, Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca and back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 4,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bolivia into Peru - carry ID and check the toll rules.
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.
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Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o 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.
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Segment Desaguadero Titijoni comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua. Next is Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca.
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.
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Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca, about halfway. Next is back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua.
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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 sits at 135 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 158 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o closes the day.
Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre o → Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Desaguadero Titijoni → Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Segment Pomata-Chaca Chaca → back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Segment Arbolera-Parcco Chua Chua → back through Segment Desaguadero Titijoni is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.