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Originally Posted by gatogato
I agree about the roads being sketchy and dangerous to get to Hyrdroelectrica. The largest problem in my opinion is that once you make it to Hydroelectrica there is no easy to find safe place to park your motorcycle. It is a tiny little town on the side of a mountain with no tourist business's at all. To get to the town, you have to cross a nightmare section of 100m of softball sized rocks.
To do it over again I still would have rode instead of taking the train, but would have found a nearby tourist town to Hydroelectrica and asked a hotel to pay to store my motorcycle and shuttle me to Hydroelectrica.
That would be a way better solution than having to worry about the safety of your motorcycle in Hydroelectrica while you are doing Machu Pichu. Also, if you are traveling with any beginners or women I think parking your bike in Hydroelectrica is one of those things that is likely to start a mutiny situation. lol
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I think you'll find plenty of female riders perfectly capable of riding this or any road a man can. A German lady we met in Patagonia rode the Camion de Laguna (5200m asl) on her own and my wife also rode both the north and south Yungas roads last week - and said the southern road was far more challenging than the so-called Death Road - though both are pretty easy. Assuming women cant do something is a pretty old fashioned view.
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