La Finca Coroico

... are the ones the volunteers work with. All of the adult capuchins are seperated from everything because they can be dangerous, so they are all tethered and have their own area. The babies are allowed to roam free. They are quite small, really smart and very fun to play with, always jumping on you and chasing each other. They pick up things really quickly. When you clean their houses, there are a couple of them that will take your brush from you and do it themself. You ...

... In the past they exported the leaves to Colombia, but in recent years they learned the Colombian´s techniques for extracting the cocaine more easily, and can now complete the process indoors in small batches rather than in giant holes in the ground in the jungle like they used to.

You may be wondering how I know all of this. The fact of the matter is that these things are talked about freely here, as though there is nothing wrong with what is going on. Everybody ...

... all downhill,so no peddling and we only passed 1 minivan(on the dangerous stretch.,..the first 25km is tarseal)so no where near what i thought it would be or what some of the photo´s I have seen show!!!Would have loved to put some photo´s on for you but the disc drives don´t work on these computers!!!
But a great day and I have the T'shirt and DVD and sunburn to prove it!!!
La Paz is a very busy and dirty city ...

... to shoot its mother and take the helpless baby. We try to serve as surrogates as best we can.

It costs a lot of money to feed and care for all of these animals. In order to raise these funds La Senda functions as a sort of eco-resort as well. We have four large and four small cabins which we rent out to tourists. Volunteers also pay a small fee, which covers housing and food. In addition we have a partnership with Gravity, an adventure company which takes ...

... steep, the cars and buses simply beep their horns to let you know they WILL pull out, whether you like it or not, and whether or not they have right of way. There is no courtesy on the road, nobody will let anybody else out of a queue of traffic or at a junction, so they just push and nudge. I saw several very near accidents with vehicles stopping within cms of hitting another one.

It wasn't long before we left the heavy traffic of la Paz ...

... site to a room which 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, chicken and potato with some dodgy salad.  Again, we gave them some slack as it was after 2pm.  We then went to check out the swimming pool and found two men ...

... Of course, the raft was only for the bus and any other smaller vehicles that could fit, they wouldn’t want a bunch of people getting in Tom and Huck’s way while they poled 'er across the pond. Instead all the passengers were directed over to a smaller boat where we were taken across, anxiously watching as our beat up old bus crawled across the water unsteadily like the poor people’s ride across the Styx. Eventually we were all across, though, and shortly after we were ...

... all the heavy traffic nowadays. The old road, a 45 km long dirt road descending around 3500 m with tight corners only 3 m wide, was transformed into a national park and is a tourist cash cow.

The safe part of the course, intended to get familiar with the bike, starts at 4700 m on the new road. The landscape is so beautiful it could become itself a cause of accidents. The actual downhill madness is some 20 km later, when the asphalt ends and the road narrows ...

... 3,5 h. Ab ca. 5100 m gingen wir auf Schnee.





Da das Platzangebot ohnehin sehr begrenzt war und wir um 2:00 Uhr aufstehen mussten, gingen wir um 19:00 Uhr schlafen (so gut es halt ging)

... 8211; hurtling round unknown corners isn’t wise – you
would only have to hit a rock at the wrong angle and you could easily lose your balance. We had a sobering moment when we realised that the rumours about a recent death were true – there was a memorial plaque on one of the corners where only 9 days earlier a British went over the edge. There were many stories as to how it happened – poor guy, he was only 23. Our guides (Barro ...