Coroico Travel Blogs

One of the main day-trips offered from La Paz is to bike-ride down the world´s most dangerous road.  This is a road which starts a little way out of the city at over 4000 metres and descends in just a few hours to the tropical climate found in warm cloud-forest at about 1000 metres …

I´m now on my own. Andy doesn´t have time for a trip to the jungle so he´s now legging it South at some speed. As for me, I´ll be going North to Rurrenbaque by boat through the rainforest and then probably doing a Pampas trip to try to see some jungle animals. From all …

I awoke fairly early to gray misty skies, but a pleasant warmth in the air and made some coffee with the excellent Yungas local variety that I had bought the day before.  It was strong and rich and tasted wonderful.  I put on my headphones and was listening to Russian choral music, wishin…

Cycling the "Worlds most dangerous road" from La Paz to Coroico has been one of my travel wishes since the beginning of my trip. There are hundreds of companies you can choose from nowadays to cycle the road. Our hostel heavily promotes the company Gravity, who do have a very high safety record but…

Bolivia is a land of mountains and valleys.  One of the most dramatic areas is the road that goes between coricio and La Paz, well El Alto.  The road is about 70 km long, and goes from an altitude of 5000 km to about 1,000 km.... making it downhill most of the way, which is why I decided …

Cyclin down the World's Most Dangerous road

One of the big tourist attractions in Bolivia is riding what is commonly known as the world’s most dangerous road, however our tour company and lots of them here refer to it as the death road. It sounds scary, so I’ll use that terminology.   Sarah had decided that she was much to petrif…

6 a.m.  I wake up early, unsuccessfully try to take a cold shower, pack extra clothes, my bike gloves, hydration pack, and camera gear. 6:30 a.m. Leave my hostel and walk over to El Solario hostel, where I booked my bike ride down The Death Road in Bolivia.  The city's already up and …

Some thoughts from my travels in Bolivia in 2005

Paa trods af vores oemme ben og ikke mindst ende efter cykelturen, tog vi en rask beslutning om en ridetur gennem bjergene paa godt fem timer. Efter at have taget colectivo til Coroico  vandrede vi hele vejen op gennem byen hvor vi fandt en mand der hav de ca. 10 heste gaaende. Og jo, han vill…

We managed to keep ourselves in a sober state to attempt the madness of mountain biking down the World's Most Dangerous Road.  It was given that tag in 1995 by the Inter American Development Bank, because over 300 a year used to die driving down it.  Today, a new road has replaced it, so …

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Our route through Central and South America..

Travelling South America in one month ;)

Viajo América do sul para 6 meses