Roller Coaster Ride

This is the vertical profile of the route from Cuzco to Paracas in Peru.  The horizontal axis represents distance in Km’s and the vertical axis represents the elevation in m’s.  As you can see these climbs are bigger than the Blue Nile Gorge in Ethiopia, at a higher altitude and there are two of them consecutively.  Cuzco is at km 0 on this chart and Nazca is at km 655 where the curve begins to flatten out. The 70 km descent into Nazca is gonna be fucking wicked!  This 655 km stretch will probably be the most challenging stretch of the tour
  If you would like to join us for this incredible roller-coaster ride, you can do so by registering for the 'Gringo Trail' section of the 2009 Vuelta Sudamericana.