A lot of the road in Brazil is in very poor condition with sections of good road here and there. Where it is bad, the potholes extend right across the road in places and there are detours into the grass verge and the trucks just career along treating it as a 100kmph continuously chicaned racetrack. Motorbikes were definitely 10th class road users.
The road all the way from Cusco to the border was generally in excellent condition and a lot of it with close to zero traffic and lots of smooth tight bends in places. Gets up to 4500 metres and the TukTuk in the photo was somewhat underpowered and was slaloming up the steep parts of the road
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