A long and hard, nine-leg glider tour of the Peruvian Andes, roughly 1,020 nm (about 1,900 km) as flown, or 870 nm if you fly each leg direct, from the Pacific coast at sea level to the Altiplano and back down to the volcanoes of Arequipa. The route is built around the mountains rather than the airfields, that's why legs are so long: the Cañón del Pato and the Cordillera Blanca under Huascarán, the Cordillera Huayhuash and the Junín plateau, the Mantaro canyon and the battlefields of 1824, the Apurímac canyon, Choquequirao, Salkantay, Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley, Ausangate in the Cordillera Vilcanota, Lake Titicaca, the Colca Canyon and its condors, the Valley of the Volcanoes, and the Misti and Chachani volcanoes above Arequipa. The airfields are regional airports plus a few small public and mining strips (Vicco, Orcopampa, Yauri), and ten of the eleven sit above 2,500 m, with four above 3,700 m and Vicco topping out at 4,103 m. Expect thin air and weak tow-plane performance, thermals that start late and run hard on the dry plateaus, ridge lift on the west-facing slopes in the afternoon, and cloud build-up and thunderstorms in the wet season. This is a simulator-only glider tour, as Machu Picchu is a no-fly zone and several of the fields are small mining strips.