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Coroico Slideshow
Coroico
Travel Blogs from Coroico, Bolivia
May Day, May Day
... didn't want dinner, a rare sign. By the time we pulled out from that little settlement and started on our way towards Coroico and La Paz, he started hanging out the bus window, throwing up everything, and eventually, nothing, although he was still dry ...
The Worlds Most Dangerous Road
... checkpoints on the way where you have to stop. Apparently the area around Coroica is one of the biggest Cocaine producing regions in Bolivia so they have fixed checkpoints on the road. It wasnt long before we reached the proper dirt road and thats ...
Tropical Paradise
Coroico is in a valley north of La Paz and lot lower in Altitude and surrounded by jungle. We met the rest of the gang in hotel Esmerelda where they finished their bike trip. The place was looking over the valley and was an absolute paradise. The view was ...
´The World´s most Dangerous Road´
... the climate became hotter and more tropical as we entered the jungle. We finished then at the bottom of the valley, in a town called Coroico, which is at 1100m altitude. The 62 km took us under 3 hours - fastest I´ve ever cycled, without needing ...
body on the roadworks from hell
as we crawled our way back to town we me(cb) and jord saw a covered womans body, a hand and some ...
The Worlds Most Dangerous Road aka Death Road!
The North Yungas Road (alternatively known as Grove's Road, Coroico Road, Camino de las Yungas, El Camino de la Muerte, Road of Death or Death Road) is a 61-kilometre (38 mi) or 69-kilometre (43 mi) road leading from La Paz to Coroico, ...
De race naar Coroico
Ons hostelwerk in Sol y luna ecolodge wordt bevestigd, maar we moeten wel die dag zelf nog terug in Coroico zijn, want eigenares Sigrid vertrekt ´s anderendaags naar Chili voor een week. We haasten ons dus na het ontbijt naar Villa Fatima, alwaar de ...
Pyoralla maailman vaarallisinta tieta
Tanaan pyorailimme alas maailman vaarallisinta tieta alas. Se oli aika hurja seikkailu. Valitsimme seikkailun jarjestajaksi toimiston, jota Lonely Planet on suositellut lampimasti. Koska koko matkan ajan meidan henkemme on kiinni allamme olevien pyorien ...
El Choro
... the sort of people I want to get to know so it was worth the money for our private mnibus!! We stayed the night in Coroico in a gorgeous french run hostal with a lovely room, balcony with amazing views and a french chef in the kitchen! It was strange ...
World's most dangerous road (La Paz to Coroico)
Well at least I managed to attain the objective of doing this ride on my 40th ...
Carretera de la muerte en VTT
Lever à 6h30. Les filles aussi se sont lever, elles comptaient aller sur le Lac Titicaca ce jour-là. A 7h, j'arrivais au point de rendez vous du tour : l'hôtel El Solario. Là j'ai rencontré une partie des gens avec qui je serai : deux Japonais, ...
Gunshot descision on hostel
we could not find the originally booked hostel, turns out it was in a dodgy area, a bang like a gunshot made us change to a different part of ...
More Churches
... 5 minutes after alighting we were settled in Posada El Tiluchis on the plaza, at 60B the cheapest digs we have had so far in Bolivia. The señora is very friendly and helpful. Also on the plaza is the Casa de la Cultura, with an ethnographic museum, free ...
SIMPLEMENTE... ALTO BENI!
... "camino de la muerte" (la strada più pericolosa del mondo) che collegava il passo della Cumbre (La Paz) a Coroico. Oggi, una nuova strada (la cui costruzione ha vissuto indescrivibili vicende e ritardi) evita di dover percorrere quel pericolosissimo ...
Veni, vidi, vici
El Huayna Potosí és una muntanya de la Cordillera Reial boliviana. Aquest petitó s'enlaira 6.088m sobre el nivell del mar, i uns quants menys sobre el del llac Titi Caca. Molt temps enrere, quasi al principi del viatge vam conèixer una parella de ...
NINOS DE ALTO BENI
Sono i primi giorni di luglio e, per la seconda volta, ho la opportunità di andare in Alto Beni, presso le piccole comunità Mosetenes. Questa volta sono insieme a Sara e Ivan (coppia in viaggio di nozze), Lucia della Comunità Nazareth (arrivata da ...
Where it could have ended
... I joined a group of travelers met in the previous hostel so it was good trekking with them. The landscape in this tropical place of Bolivia is very different from what I have known. I was very happy to see green lands again. We trekked to the cascadas on ...
The Death Road and Coroico
... the Death part. The Shua and I declined our lift back to La Paz, opting instead to drop in on sleepy mountain town, Coroico. Supposedly one of the most picturesque spots in the Yungas, we were somewhat disappointed to find a scruffy, run-down little place ...
La Route de la Mort / Death Road
... three years ago it was the only road between La Paz and the Yungas, the beginning of the amazonian jungle in the northern Bolivia. It's extremely narrow, and was open to traffic in both ways. Result: an average of 200 deaths a year... Everywhere on the ...
Bolivia 05
... the steep hills of the canyon). We spent a couple of days in La Paz trying to acclimatise before spending a night in Coroico after a gruelling mountain bike trip (see below). We also visited Copocabana and the famed Lake Titicaca on our way through ...
TOMA DE NOMBRE EN SANTA ANA
La Paz, 20 luglio 2007 Dopo solo due settimane dall'ultima volta, siamo di nuovo in Alto Beni, in foresta. Per altro con grandissimo piacere. Con noi, in questa occasione, ci sono Fabio Tognetti (con un passato boliviano) e i suoi due figli Chiara e ...
reunited in Coroico
So I ended up running into Chris in Coroico right away. He didn´t even realize that he left me with no money until his guide started asking him for money for his Amiga! The guide needed to pay back the travel agent. Anyway, the ...
Coroico
We zijn verkast van La Paz naar Coroico…richting de Amazone. Rond twaalf uur hebben we ons hostal verlaten met een extra tas met een hoop nieuwe aankopen. We gaan deze middag 3000 kilometer zakken…en zijn op weg met de taxi naar het ...
Del altiplano a la selva en dos horas
... a EUROPA =). Al día siguiente salimos a camina hacia las cascadas. Lo increible era el paisaje y las vistas. A pesar de que Coroico se encuentra a 1700 metros de altura sobre el mar, encuentras una vegetacion del trópico, y se supone que si sigues ...
Scary, for rizzo
... jaw-dropping views of the expansive river valley below, leading all the way up to Huayna Potosi. And pools. Poolside in Bolivia. Who'd a thunk it? I ended up staying for 3 nights here mainly because I couldn't get enough of drinking cervesas admiring ...
Worlds Most Dangerous Shower
Hello!! This is just a quick entry to tell you about the stupidest thing I have done this week. Made it all the way down the Worlds Most Dangerous Road and down the bottom we had lunch at an animal refuge centre. At the centre they offered us showers. ...
world's Most Dangerous Road
An adventure day trip out of La Paz to mountain bike down what is marketed as “The World’s Most Dangerous Road” (or at least was before a new stretch of road opened on the opposite side of the mountain). The road was the main and only ...
Bus Terror
The day of hopefully finally managing to leave La Paz. Got to the bus office (in a suburb of La Paz, right near the Altiplano rim) and tried to work out how to get my bag checked in amongst all the random, never ending cargo that seemed to be going on ...