South America Vacation

Thursday, October 05, 2006

44 km of the worlds most dangerous road





So I made it down the worlds most dangerous ride via bike. The ride was almost 70 kms in total, but unbelievable. The first 20 kms was on pavement, going downhill and around hairpin turns...and yes you must go fast. The second part is almost 5 kms of uphill...which is damn hard at about 4000 meters. Than you hit the worlds most dangerous road. I do now understand why it has this name. The first part of the road is barely wide enough to fit one vehicle and on a cliffs edge..A hummer would NOT fit ( picture above of the road). There are human traffic lights for this part of the ride. Than you hit the dusty section...clouds of white thivk dust block any view of the road you may have had, and you get very dirty. The entire road is covered with huge rocks which doesnt make the ride so comfortable...thank God for double suspension bikes! (which definitely helped a lot). You also must bike under a waterfall and over two small rivers....which are on the road! Overall the ride was amazing and I thanked God for my life at the end. The drive back up the road....must worse than the ride down!! Blind corners everywhere, without enough room on the road to pass another vehicle...must rely on the horn!
La Paz is an amazing city...probably one of the cleanest I have seen. There are markets everywhere and everything is soooooo cheap. I hit multiple markets today including the witches market....the picture above is from it....the oddest things youve ever seen. Yes those are llama fetuses!!! I also hit the black market which has enything you could imagine...sinks, toilets, clothes, food, makeup.....unreal and super cheap.
I am off to Pampas tommarow, which is around the jungle/amazon, for four days. Im taking the plane and NOT the worlds most dangerous road to get there!

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