Why this ride
A road-accessible heritage corridor linking major cultural landmarks. It links naturally to Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu and Sacred Valley.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Sacred Valley Road
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 92 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 50
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. 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.
Editorial context
Coordinates are curated start-via-end route seeds. They are not a surveyed centreline or navigation geometry. Run road snapping, topology checks, access checks and a live-status review before publication.
Access context
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Seasonal context
Apr-Oct
Scenic road chapters
Sacred Valley Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 18 km this is Sacred Valley Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 18 km
- Named road
- Sacred Valley Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cusco
Cusco sits at about 3,400 metres in a high Andean valley, and the first thing it asks of you is patience. The air is thin, so even a short walk uphill can leave you breathless, and visitors from sea level often feel it as a headache or a strange tightness for a day or two. Locals will offer you coca tea, which helps a little; rest, water and a light dinner help more. On a motorcycle, thin air also saps engine power, a carburetted bike may run rich and a fuel-injected one will cope better, so do not be surprised if your machine feels a little tired.
Read the complete Cusco write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cusco sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Pisac.
2. Pisac
Above the village of Pisac the Incas cut terraces so fine and so curved that the whole mountainside looks like a seashell. They run up the slope in great sweeping arcs, still green with crops, and above them on a spur of rock stands the citadel, a scatter of stone temples, baths and watchtowers that guarded the entrance to the Sacred Valley from the east. The village itself lies by the Urubamba river, at just under three thousand metres, thirty-odd kilometres from Cusco. Calca, the next town of any size, is another fifteen along the valley.
Read the complete Pisac write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Pisac comes up 33 km in. Next is Ollantaytambo.
3. Ollantaytambo
Ollantaytambo is an Inca town in the Sacred Valley of Peru, about 2,800 metres above sea level, and unlike most Inca sites it is not a ruin: people live here in houses laid out on the original Inca street plan, and the streets, with their stone channels of running water, are some of the oldest continuously inhabited in South America. Above the town, a huge stepped terrace climbs the mountainside to a temple complex, built for the emperor Pachacuti in the fifteenth century, with enormous stones fitted so tightly that a knife blade will not pass between them.
Read the complete Ollantaytambo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
92 km in you reach Ollantaytambo.