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Coroico Slideshow
Coroico
Travel Blogs from Coroico, Bolivia
White Water
Another adrenaline filled day atop not dust but the whiter waters of Rio Coroico guided by Fernando the very business minded rally co-driver/owner of Madness. 2.5hrs of calm floating through primary rain forest eyed by Vultures and yellow tailed mocking ...
The worlds most dangerous road
Well check out some photos from this very crazy adventure, they are not of me but i will have some soon, and it was hard to take photos while you are riding and concerntrating, with your life in the hands of. . . your hands i guess. ok so its one of the ...
Bolivia
What can I say... this city is amazing. Probably the best city I have visited in South America so far. At first glance it is dirty, grimy, smelly and nothing more than disgusting. But once you get to know La Paz you come away in amazement. The minute ...
The Worlds Most Dangerous Road
Well, I remember when my good friends Rob and Nicole were travelling South America I got an email from them excitedly telling me they had just mountain biked down the World´s Most Dangerous Road. Having never heard of it, I looked it up on the internet ...
The highs and lows of Death Road
Death Road, otherwise known as the North Yungas Road is one of the few routes connecting the Amazon rainforest region of northern Bolivia (the Yungas) to the capital city, La Paz. It is 69km in length and starts at an altitude of 4633 ...
Choro Trek to Coroico
We did a three day trek from a local high point at 4900m down an old pre-Inca route to finish at about 1400m - quite hard work on the knees. But it was great to start the trek in snow and rocks and go down through the grassland (like Scottish Highlands) ...
Road to Coroico
... casually said as I and 6 other tourists made our decent down "El Camino del Muerte," (The Death Road) to Coroico. Part Bolivian statistics. Part Bolivian folklore. The Death Road has taken enough lives to live ...
Down to a more reasonable altitude
Mark 17/4: 0005 train from Uyuni to Oruru on Express del Sur (the preferred train network of Bolivia, apparently). It was pretty warm on board but the 7 hour journey was much much better than the bus all the way down from La Paz. When we got ...
Death Road Survivors!
One of the main attractions for travellers visiting Bolivia is the famous 65km long ¨Death Road¨ starting near La Paz and dropping 3.5km in altitude into the Bolivian Jungle. In 2008, 16 people have already died while biking down the ...
The world´s most dangerous road - by bike
... i know i will fall short. It was amazing, the most fun i have had in a long time. If anyone travels to Bolivia i do not suggest you do this, i insist. Imagine flying down an endless hill with rain pouring down and continuous waterfalls cascading onto ...
junglebound
... in Bolivia, not sure what this one was about. We got well out of the city and into the Cordillera Real (highest mountains in Bolivia) before it started getting dark and we found a suitable place to camp. At 15,000 feet everything was covered in frost in ...
Our Worst Journey So Far...
We leave Corroico at 13.00, about eight of us standing in the back of a pickup truck. It takes about 45mins to reach the village where we are supposed to meet our bus at 14.30. We sit outside the village police station drinking rum until the bus turns ...
Biking down the World´s Most Dangerous Road
... nights in the Yungas, rather than heading back to La Paz, and checked into a hotel with a pool in a small town called Coroico. The views were fantastic and we spent a day relaxing by the pool before catching the overnight bus to Rurrenbaque. ...
Death Road Downhill
... the impressive clifftops, this very windy and narrow dirt/gravel/potholed road used to be the main road between La Paz and Coroico and got it's name from the approximately 300 fatalities that occurred on it's steep jagged edges yearly. The ...
World's Most Dangerous Road!
Another daredevil adventure for the lads!! The World's Most Dangerous Road was a challenge I’d been looking forward to since coming to South America. This narrow 40km road descends 3,600m and snakes unprotected through the Bolivian Andes with ...
just chillin'
... to let you know that i am back on the road after an AMAZING 2 weeks chillin' in the gorgeous mountain-side pueblo of coroico, 3 hours down the worlds most dangerous road from la paz. i really didn't do much there to be honest... i chilled out reading ...
Death Road
... some bits where we had to ride under waterfalls and through water. By the time we reached the bottom, at a town called Yolosa, near Coroico, the weather was quite hot, and having not been below 4000m for over a week, the air was nice and thick, like ...
Take it easy in Coroico
This day was more of a relaxing day as we woke up quite late, and hang around the swimming pool. I met a cute nice dog and then we took the bus to come back to La Paz. In the evening we met again Babi, the friend of Roberto, who bring us to Ojo del Agua, ...
Survived death hwy, but bugs will be death of me!
... there was a local camione trying to throw rcks to stop it up. We managed to get through with a bit of difficulty. Arrived in Coroico, everyone but 4 got off at top, but we tourists stayed on until the bus stain. DUMB! The town is a very ...
down the worlds most dangerous road on 2 wheels
... with water half way up our calves, peddling like mad) and even a ride under a waterfall, we arrived at our ultimate destination - coroico, about 1200m high. this place is also pretty special. i am staying here for a couple of weeks, in a little cabin ...
Trek del Choro, journee 2
Nous partons vers 9h30 du camp avant les jeunes, mais vite ratrappes car les premiers courent... Un chargement de mules est arrive pendant la nuit et nous avons donc du pain pour la journee. Apres 2h de marche sur des paves pre-colombiens, on arrive a ...
Yungas und Buerokratiedschungel
... etwas mit Need for Speed verwechselt. Wir sind aber alle heil angekommen und haben nur ca alle 500m unsere Radkappen verloren. Coroico selbst ist ziemlich klein und umringt von Baeumen. Die gibts in El Alto nicht und deshalb war das echt besonders ...
El Camino de la Muerte
... : down the fittingly named Death Road. The road starts at La Cumbre approximately 4700m above sea level, and plummets down to Coroico, 1500m lower. There are 500-800m drops round the corners; slippery mud tracks, thin air and nerves definitely mean it ...
I´m alive!!!
... doesn´t cover the feelings of pain and John Wayne style walk that ensued after our 4 hour ride to the waterfalls just outside Coroico, but having said that I wouldn´t have missed it for the world and figure that it was probably best to have gotten all ...
snow caps to rainforest
... asking at least a dozen of the locals about the bus to la paz and getting as many different answers (a very common occurance in bolivia) we deduced that there actually was no bus till 5am. after a load of bargaining and begging managed to get a guy to ...
Finally moving on
Early wake up in order to go and get our breakfast at 7. A good night, on that terrible bed again (on which you could amazingly well feel the wood planks in your back), sleeping two per bed, Roberto and I being a bit too tall and having our feet dangling ...
Coffee in the Yungas
... exported I was told, very little being held back for domestic use. Such is the sad situation in countries as mercilessly exploited as Bolivia, everything of quality and value is sold, and only the dredges are left for the natives. Here I was on a hilltop ...
Up the World's Most dangerous Road
We woke to the sound of torrential rain and thunder. The beautiful view from our room was totally obscured! Still, it made it an interesting journey back up the road in a minivan. We had the front seats next to the driver. I'm still not sure it is ...
The Orgasmic-ish Experience
... always wanted to have a cut off something like this. So I signed up to do a climb of a 6,000 metre plus peak in Northern Bolivia. Turned ut to be some experience. Always good to test yourself every once in a while to make sure you are still breathing - I ...
THE WORST HOTEL TO DATE!
... was basic to say the least. We didn't unpack but took a walk around our resort. We took into consideration that we were in Bolivia and not the Amalfi Coastline but still this was no way five star. We went straight for lunch which was dried out beef, ...