Hotel Esmeralda Coroico
Coroico, Bolivia
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TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Esmeralda Coroico
“Spectacular view ”
leesarahale 2 contributions
Melbourne, Australia 
Apr 9, 2011
Stayed in the dorm room, Clean nice bunk beds, hot water and clean amenities. AMAZING views out over the Yungas shame about the lack of smile and friendlyness of the manageress!
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Esmeralda Coroico
Bolivia
We took the bus from Copacabana to La Paz on 21st July. La Paz is a very busy, polluted but fairly interesting city. We visited the famous black and witches markets (selling lucky llama fetus´ and other lucky charms) and San Pedro prison (novel Marching Powder fame). Yesterday we went on a mountain bike ride with Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking …
Beautiful Beautiful Sunshine
Coroico is a very small town mostly known as the end of the bike tour on the world´s most dangerous road (which Lawrence did). It is situated in a valley in the cordillera real, you have to take a 2.5 hour bus ride from La Paz on the new road (they finally created a new one after so many people died on the old one). We stayed at a hotel with a pool …
Biking the Worlds Most Dangerous Road
On Sunday the 12, me and 4 friends made the day trip just outside of La Paz to mountain bike downhill to Coroico. The road has been labeled the "Worlds Most Dangerous Road" because more people die on this stretch of highway than anywhere else in the world. On average 26 vehicles per year disapear over the edge into the abyss. We used the most …
Death Road and Swimming Pools
This is a top pick! It is supposedly the world´s most dangerous road, but I think that it´s changed since it got that name in 1995. Yeah it´s still dangerous, but since they built a new road, there aren´t that many trucks to dodge. The most dangerous stuff is the bumpy, rocky road. Death Road We were given our dust protection pants, our helmets and gloves and piled …
Coroico Bike Tour
Our bike ride to Coroico started at 7:45am sharp. Around 9am we got to an altitude of 4000m by the van then got into our bikes and got few safety notes from our guide Graham. There were about 10 of us that day. It was freezing cold up there and as we started to ride down the first 22Km we even got more cold. It was foggy, rainy, you name it. After …
