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- La Paz /Sucre
- Capital
- Boliviano (BOB)
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- 8,300,463
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Coroico Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Coroico, Bolivia
my little accident
... 3000m in 4 hours on a windy curving beautifully scenic road. The ride starts at 4700m in La Cumbre, and you finish at 1750m in Coroico. Things were all well and we were all geared up and sped down the first third of the course in safe time. During the ...
Gold Digging
Going down to the river: easier said than done... as in Chussi, once you start going down you understand better and better what you will have to pay to go up again. The "playa", or working grounds, was at a turnoff the river: it had been ...
Oudjaar
... de lunch op zijn varkensboerderij. We houden nog halt aan een winkeltje voor cola en houden dan een traditionele oudejaarslunch voor Bolivi'': varkensvlees. In ons geval is het een (voor ons zomerse) in de oven gebakken verse kotelletjes in eigen nat met ...
Eerste inkopen van 2012
... boodschappen te doen en Yolosa is te beperkend, wat dat betreft. Maar eerst eten we nog eens een dagschotel voor 9 B$ (=0.99 euro) in Coroico. Er is eten nodig voor de varkens en ook voor Luis en onszelf voor de komende dagen. Nog eens tijd voor iets ...
Intensief Spaans inoefenen
Vandaag hebben we een intensieve cursus Spaans: we hebben 2x 2h les en maken na onze 10 B$ lunch(soep en hoofdgerecht) een wandeling rond het dorp. Uiteindelijk komen we bij Carla´s garden terecht; een gezellige pub met open bar en wifi, waar je ook ...
Coroico a bit of Paradise in Bolivia
... mum is going to kill me anyway for having taken this road... Please mum don´t kill me.. Anyway, 3 days in the sun of Coroico in a hostal owned by a french lady who cooked us tiramisu and nice trout. We played cards and chatted to a french couple who ...
The World´s Most Dangerous Road
*We've been sat on the World's Most Dangerous Road TM (averages over two deaths a week!) for about an hour as I write this. We have descended into cloud so it's extremely wet with bugger all visability. At least I can't see the huge drop that we are ...
The World´s Most Dangerous Road
The World´s Most Dangerous Road Before coming to Bolivia, I was aware it was home to the World´s Most Dangerous Road, and whilst the road leads to a beautiful village amidst valley´s and mountains, I´d decided under no circumstances would I go on ...
Cycling on the World´s Most Dangerous Road
The road from La Paz to Coroico is widely referred to as ´The World´s most Dangerous road´ Someone came up with the genious idea of taking trips of tourists down it on mountain bikes and we decided to join them! You´re eased into it on a paved ...
Coroico: Bolivia´s Paradise
... here for a while. To get to Coroico you have to travel down The World´s Most Dangerous Road, a great tourist attraction in Bolivia. The irony of travelling down this dangerous road to get to a place that people describe as heavenly was not lost on ...
Death Road
The "World`s Most Dangerous Road" (nr. La Paz, Bolivia) is one 1st things on people`s to-do-list upon arriving here, now that the prison is off limits. It earned this reputation back in the day, when trucks, buses and cars used to fall of it with some ...
sob sob. i don't want to leave.
... and scenery. Tomorrow we are taking a 15 hour bus ride (which we all expect to be horrid as buses do not have bathrooms in Bolivia) to Rurrenebaque, where we will all look for jungle and pampas tours. We are sad to leave as this place is like a 5 star ...
Alto Beni
Waking up at dawn, we found out that we had a flat tyre, so that was the first duty of the day. We left Chiara and Marco sleep, and with Ricardo, Roberto, Marco and Fabio we went to Palos Blancos, a town 20 minutes from Sapecho. There we needed to ...
Coroico
... La Paz che non ci è possibile anticipare il volo per Miami decidiamo di trascorrere gli ultimi giorni in Bolivia a Coroico. Coroico è a detta di molti un posto stupendo dove potersi rilassare e crogiolarsi al sole che raramente non si ...
South America Tour - Bolivia - Choro Trek
3 day trek descending from 5,000m to around 800m. Our knees and calves hurt just at the mention of ...
Coroico
... with a jeep), negotiated a price and set out the next morning to explore the hills and valleys surrounding Coroico and get a glimpse of Afro-Bolivia. Our guides were great and stopped along the winding roads to point out the different flora and ...
Stuck stuck stuck
... place and then gave it up as it stank realy too much. The habbit of dumping trash everywhere is a cultural thing in Bolivia. I never have the heart to tell them whe they are complaining about bloody insects that they could do something about it. Only in ...
O mooie regenboog
We zijn belogen. We konden zogezegd tot en met morgenochtend blijven, maar als we voor een ontbijt de hostel verlaten, houdt de uitbaatster ons tegen: ¨Jullie vertrekken vandaag, toch?¨ Ok, dat wordt dus vanavond al een oplossing klaarhebben… Na ...
Last day in the Alto Beni - back to civilization
... of the village was on a hangover from the previous night and curing it with these littel bottles of "edible 90% alcohol, made in Bolivia". Roberto came back a bit dizzy after having to do some public relation work. The kids went for a while with Marco, ...
Beste wensen!
Beste wensen allemaal...een goeie gezondheid, veel liefde, veel dromen die allemaal verwezenlijkt moge worden! Dankuwel ook allemaal voor uw e-cardjes en wensen. Leuk om eens iets van jullie te horen! We zijn niet meer zo piep, dus als je uitgaat tot ...
A little bit more out of the nowhere
... day after that the miners were talking about blockading roads etc, but three days in advance is too far away to predict anything in Bolivia. So that was the situation, it was better for us to stay where we were and have Roberto's colleague pick us up ...
Terug naar La Paz
... slaatje en dan geeft Luis ons nog een rit tot Yolosa. Toffe kerel, die Luis, hij regelt ons zelfs extra goedkoop een taxi naar Coroico, vanwaar de bussen naar La Paz gaan. We kopen nog snel wat te eten voor onderweg en dan kunnen we, denken we.Echter, ...
Camino de Oro - End of the walk
Waking up wit the sun, we had more walusas for breakfast. With dulce de leche it was just perfect, we shared with our hosts who made us cofee. We bid farewell after leaving them money and a few things they wouldn't get otherwise (marmeade and dulce de ...
Off to the Alto Beni
... , but finally they had left from La Paz eaarly in the morning and were already waiting for us in Caranavi. Being on a hurry in Bolivia is not an option. From Tipuani we finally went on to Guanay, and from there a last car to Caranavi. In total 6 ...
Afdalen via de death road
... is dat niet gelukt. Het is ook laagseizoen (muv de feestdagen), dus ja, misschien niet genoeg werk ook? In alle geval, Bolivi'' is spotgoedkoop qua overnachting (v.a. 6-7€ voor basic overnachting/ 2 personen), dus dat gaat ook nog wel voor een ganse ...
Coroico
... +30oC! Difficult to know what to wear but that 65km of downhill was just amazing! Asnd all for a (highly negotiated) $35! Once in Coroico the Israelis had perked up and were actually OK to soscialise with again, we were left at a hotel with an amazing ...
The end of the Jesuit Route
Friday September 1st, San Javier to Santa Cruz Breakfast in San Javier ? Same problem as dinner. We had the choice of green soup with floating objects in it or greasy empanadas. Empanadas won, and greedy Pete, whose first 2 had been tasty, had another ...
Another strike with no buses today
Tuesday August 29th San Ignacio - everything on strike We woke up expecting to go to Concepcion, but this is Bolivia, yet another strike, not a bus going anywhere, and only a few shops daring to open, with a handful of entrepreneurs selling plastic bags ...
The Most Dangerous Road in the World
... On the way down when we were going through the jungle we passed through one of the most productive coca growing areas in Bolivia - and apparently the area that produces the best coca. One rather disconcerting point came near the bottom as there was a ...