The way to Puno

Now that we are leaving Cusco we are about to enter one of the most geologically interesting areas on planet Earth.
In no specific order in the next 3 weeks we will see the deepest canyon on Earth, the highest forest, the driest desert, the highest navigable lake, the biggest salt lake and a town that not only is surrounded by 8 volcanoes but also counts over 10 telluric movements per day.
The door to this "wonder" region, which by the way is scattered across 3 countries, is the Cusco-Puno highway.
For the first 100 kms the road is fairly boring, the only new touch to the scenery is that the railway is running in parallel to our road.

The road is fast, even though we are well over 4000 meters.

Soon white peaks begin to appear making our journey more interesting.

The road is so new and so empty that you can take corners well over 100 kms/h, and trust me, this is very unusual on south american roads.

Surely there must be a catch, this is too good to be true......

And in fact soon the fun ends!

It get even worse and at some stage they send us litterally in the middle of the fields for a good 20 kms.

We got a couple of itchy moments when the engine of the bike got a bit over heathed on the dirt road(red light!) and also when the bike decided to turn itself off in the middle of Juliaca probably for a lethal mix of altitude and dirty petrol.(By the way Juliaca is absolutely horrible).

But in the end we made it tu Puno with the sun coming down behind us and lake titicaca in front of us and we forgot our troubles.