After yesterday's climb to the source of the Amazon, today asks for something different: distance. It's the longest single transit of the Colca-to-Cusco stretch, crossing a remote corner of the Andes that sees more mining trucks than tourists, before finally dropping into a city that will be home base for the better part of a week.
The road leaves Sibayo at 7:00, and the pavement doesn't last. This stretch runs through Espinar province, one of the emptier corners of the southern Andes — high grassland, scattered herds of alpaca and llama, and long unpaved sections that have been under intermittent repair for years without quite being finished.
The fuel stop at Ocoruro comes a little under two hours in, in a district so remote that the station itself is something of a landmark. Ocoruro sits above 4,000 meters, cold and windswept even at midday, and the turnoff to reach it has a reputation among the handful of travelers who've written about this road: rough, but passable. It's a good place to top off the tank rather than assume the next opportunity will come easily.
Deleting this waypoint is permanent and cannot be undone.