Death Road(s)

From Uyuni we travelled by bus to La Paz. The first of our near death road experiences happened a few miles outside Uyuni, when our bus, in typical Bolivian manner, crashed headlong into a jeep! Well, only as headlong as allowed for both vehicles to regain their position on the road and continue on their journeys without even so much as checking the damage!

Our next was our when we mountain-biked the world's most dangerous road from La Paz to Coroico. The road decends 3,500 metres in about 70kms! It's basically carved into the side of a mountain, and most of it's only one lane, with sheer drops of up to 1,000m on one side!

At the top it felt kind of like home; howling winds, sleet and rain, and you couldn't see more than 50 metres in front of you!



But as we descended, the weather started to clear, and we could see the beautiful scenery surrounding us... and the incredible drops below us!





That would have been the worst of it over, but we still had to cross back over the same road in our bus! And there happened to be a festival in Coroico, so we couldn't get the bus back through the town until after the parade, at about 9. Of course, we took the opportunity to enjoy the festivities!



By the time we finally left, it was of course pitch black and it took us 4 hours to make the return 100km journey to La Paz! Fantastic day though.