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June 17th 2007
Some info about the famous Death Road! The Yungas road was built by Paraguayan prisoners of war in the 1930s as a route between Coroico and La Paz and is a spectacular 38-mile ride, descending more than 3600m from the Andean mountains at 4800m to the Amazonian jungle at 1100m. It was first called the death road in 1995 when 200 hundred lives were lost the previous year and which prompted them t ... read more

South America » Bolivia » La Paz Department » Yungas Road

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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