Death Road (El Camino de la Muerte) La Paz

I left Puno on a bus to the boarder of Peru and Bolivia and it was there I found out Bolivia was a pretty easy country to get into no matter who you are. No bags scans just a stroll through the gates across the boarder and back on the next bus. I had to then cross the Bolivian side of lake Titicaca in Copacobana by boat before continuing on to La …

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Driving into the La Paz, the sight of the city is spectacular. The city sits in the valley and houses are built on the sides of the canyon and appear to just cling to it. In the background of the city are snowcapped mountains. totally by chance, our bus stopped just around the corner from the hostal that we had booked in. By the time we had walked …

We arrived in La Paz in true Bolivian fashion. After a Twelve hour overnight journey across bumpy roads the bus finally ran out of fuel about half a mile from the bus station.

We headed for our hostel, Loki in La Paz, which was to be our home for the next week. Loki is renowned for being a party hostel and with a bar open from 10am till …

De retour à La Paz pour terminer ces 2 riches semaines avec Sabrina, nous visitons la ville et achevons cette journée par un concert de musique traditionnelle. Comme à mon habitude, je prends quelques jours de repos, ce qui se résume finalement à dormir dans le même lit plus de 2 nuits, connaitre quelques commerçants du quartier et pouvoir vider …

We arrived in the Paz early into the morning hours of Easter week and were immediately unsettled by the raging traffic and pollution intoxicating the city. Our hostel itself was located on one of the main roads leading through the centre and we came to learn that no matter what time of night the roads never rest! Leaving the hostel at rush hour …

La Paz is the capital city of Bolivia and it sits high up in the mountains at over 4000m (higher than all but the tallest mountains in Canada). The city is built upon the sides of the mountains and it is rare to find a street that isnt a steep hill of some kind. Which makes for a breathtaking experience, literally, as the the altitude makes it hard …

La Paz

La Paz the highest capital city in the world, a great place to have the world's most dangerous road or WMDR if I need to shorten it, this is what we intended on doing as soon as someone decided it would be a good idea to ride a bike down it. Amongst the usual sort of ideas we have this was what we thought, quite a good one.
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So, a few of you may have noticed that blog posts are flying out left right and centre now? We'd noticed that we were quite behind and that some family and friends were missing them, so we're chilling out for a few days and catching up. I'm pretty sure that we're only left with the most dedicated of you so well done for getting …

Before leaving Puno, the hostel manager advised there were strikes near Copacabana, which is one of the border crossings into Boliva. Just as well he told us as we heard some nightmare stories from travellers who got stuck going that route - 10km walk with backpacks, 2 taxi rides and a final bus trip!! Thankfully we managed to organise a bus trip …

... intonation of a valley girl. Bubbly, retarded, you know the type. And, of course, she´s Canadian. Before leaving for Death Road, she asks ¨Ummm, can I still buy some Gatorade. Gatorade is just sooo good.¨ An Australian guy sarcasticly ...

... and had a good catch up session. The next day, we were off to do some extreme downhill mountain biking down Bolivia’s death road. The death road is the North Yungas Road that until recently was used as a real carriageway out of La Paz. Too many ...

... into a couple days ago.   However, this story is nothing like that. While taking our maiden voyage in Bolivia (Lake Titicaca to La Paz), we were ¨treated¨ to a dubbed version of Bruce Willis´ Tears of the ...

... scary because a bolivian guy who has been driving this road for 13 years (obviously too cocky and confident) decided to take the death road back in the jeep to save us half our..... he was hitting the corners at nail bittign speeds and i was glad ...

... fire tom had made looking up at a sky full of stars and trees full of fire flies. We rode up the death road from Corrico to La Paz passing gringos on pushbikes speeding the other way looking very scared. It had been fun when we had gone down the ...

... (similar to an empanada but saucier), then booked a mountain biking adventure tour down the world's most dangerous road or death road, depending on translation and experience. Wandering through the markets we were disappointed by the high ratio of ...

... finding my way around La Paz, I signed up to mountain bike down the World's Most Dangerous Road, affectionately known as "The Death Road."  The WMDR is basically a one-lane dirt track that starts at 15,400 feet high above La Paz and ...

OK, this entry begins as a warning to anyone who wants to get their hair done in Bolivia... more speicifically, La Paz... Do it yourself! It's probably going to turn out more like what you wanted!!! I decided to use a hairdresser and dye my hair ...

... couple days in the pleasant little town of Coroico before returning to La Paz. For further reading and a rather grim article on one of the mountain bike fatalities on the Death Road, Click here Or Here to jump to more info on Gravity Assisted Mt. ...

... from a Spider monkey which took a shine to his beard (check out the video).  The journey back to La Paz (driving in the bus along Death Road) took 3 1/2 hours by which stage my arse had started to hurt and the bus was slightly uncomfortable - god ...