http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from South America , Bolivia , La Paz Department , Coroico en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:00 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:00 +0000 Hi allLong time... so here is the story of the Choro trek... After renting all our camping equipment from La Paz we set off on a 71Kms journey over 3 days. Choro starts from near La Cumbre at 4800 to end up at 1800 making its way through Cordillera Real from dramatic altiplanos sceneries to quickly descent into immense valleys with dense vegetation. Although it sounds like a straight walk down http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-785528.html After a day recovering from the night before and some time spent exploring the city wandering through the countless markets steep windy streets and taking in the sights and sounds it was time for some adrenalin. It was time to saddle up and ride death road.The road from La Cumbre to Coroico in Bolivia is known as The Worlds Most dangerous Road the 64km narrow just over 3.2meters wide http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-759968.html Am nchsten Morgen weckt die Sonne meinen gesundeten Krper. Nach einem Frhstck auf der YungaTalTerasse wandere ich noch ziemlich geschafft hinunter ins Dorf und suche mir eine schne Bleibe fr die nchsten Tage. Es gibt entweder Ranz oder gleich mit Pool und Wifi der Luxusbackpacker setzt sich durch. Am Abend speise ich mexikanisch in amerikanischitalienischsterreichischer Beglei http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-746421.html Hola mi amigosvor lauter Herumreisen habe ich die letzten 10 Tage kaum Zeit gefunden um meine Reiseberichte auf dem aktuellsten Stand zu halten. Zunachest mal einiges zur Deathroad.Vorletzten Sonntag bin ich frueh aufgestanden und habe mich mental auf die Todesstrasse vorbereitet. Zunachest war mir nicht klar ob die Tour nun tatsachelich stattfindet da mich der Touroperator erst 45 Minuten z http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-735081.html Hi folksBeen a great week or so since my last blog Had a tour round La Paz with Dany on Thursday good to see a few different parts of the city before leaving after this weekend. Wandered round a couple of crazy markets and headed up to El Alto for more spectacular views over La Paz. Went to see Matamba one of Bolivia39s biggest reggae bands supporting Los Pericos on Friday the latter bei http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-724078.html Few days since my last blog as I have been away. Spent the weekend at La Senda Verde animal sanctuary...more on that in a bit.On thursday had my first photography class with Joseph a professional photographer. Learnt a few excellent tips that I39m looking forward to putting into practice as well as an insight into the history of photography and having a gander through Joseph39s own work.Sp http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-711670.html Well we did all survive the Road of Death well sort of as we were returning from Coroico back to La Paz Allan hit a big hole and snapped the front assembly on his car which dropped the front left down to about 60mm off the road We pulled off the busy road as it was getting dark after such a big day.What can we do now Well it took Cory about ten minutes to locate a welder about 100metres up http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-702028.html So after the crazy day we had on the Worlds most dangerous road we decided to take it easy for a couple of nights and take in the picturesque views in the town of Coroico. We were still in our group of 5 people consisting of Donna Helen Troy Adrian and myself and the plans for the coming days were pretty simple to chill relax and maybe even get some laundry done The night we arrived was http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-694782.html 25 fvrier 2012Info gnralesIl y a plusieurs annes il existait quune route qui reliait La Paz au Brsil. Tous les bus voitures et surtout les camions de marchandises devaient affronter cette route Cotapata. La route corniche. La route qui tue. Les vhicules se croisaient sur cette voie unique en gravier sans gardefous longeant des prcipices de plus de trois cent mtres. Suicid http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-691045.html At the end of the Death Road trip the town of Coroico was visible on the edge of a mountain it looked like the kind of place that would require a further look and so Ciaran and I took a micro to the town.On arrival we headed towards a German owned hostel that had been reported as fantastic. Unfortunately it had not been reported to me as being at the top of the town up a hefty dirt road. The cl http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-642542.html You have to do it to understand it to feel it.The very notion of being able to descend 3600m in only a few hours is awesome enough on its own the idea of being able to do that one one of the world39s most infamous and dangerous roads on a mountain bike is even better.The Yungas Road from La Paz to Coroico was constructed by Paraguayan prisoners of war in the 193039s it was required to http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-642312.html Does that sound ominous enough for you The affectionately named WMDR or Death Road is a treacherous long stretch of road leading from outside of La Paz to Corioca. True to its name people have died and the road continues to claim lives each year our guide told us that around thirty people cash out their chips here on an annual basis including car and other road transport accidents. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-623912.html Lapaz an interesting city a city full of big red brick buildings thousands of taxis who seem like all they want to do is run you over hundreds of tourist stores selling everything llama and alpaca you could imagine a million pharmacys selling anything and everything you could imagine including penicilin and viagra take your pick hundreds of tour companies some great hostels namely the Wil http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-613789.html Three hours from La Paz three hours from altitude sickness and a capital strewn breathtakingly out at the bottom of a canyon we find ourselves in Coroico. Coroico where Andes and Yungas collide and reluctantly turbulantly agree to tolerate the opposing world of the other. Coroico where banana and coca plantations do battle with barren grassland where a drop of a few hundred feet sees a shif http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-609517.html Road of death Nearly beat us.....On our spare day in La Paz we ride out to Coroico this time we had Cory the NZ guy that lives in Bolivia with us. During our spare time he was busy with Robin trying to organize the purchase of another BMW 800 GS from the local BMW dealer so they could rip the clutch out of it and get on the road again.We all left the hotel about 11.00am as Robin Baz Wim http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-589787.html http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-587443.html Imagine cuddling baby monkeys all day...I could wistfully write about our 10 days volunteering at the animal refuge La Senda Verde LSV for hours. It was a beautiful unique experience that we are sure we could never replicate. Ill try to keep it briefAfter meeting an Irish guy in La Pazs Wild Rover hostel we were convinced that LSV would be a great thing to do. Not only would we be in a http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-582407.html Day 679011th November4th DecemberThis is going to be a hard one Im not sure Ellory and I will ever be able to fully explain what an amazing experience this was. On the morning of the 11th we got a taxi to Villa Fatima where we could get a bus to Coroico the town near La Senda Verde. It was a bit interesting when we got there Very chaotic and confusing and it took us a while to find the http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-559512.html After arriving in La Paz late in the afternoon we said yes to mountian biking the worlds most danderous road the next dayUp at 530am we signed the waiver paid our bolivianos and got kitted up at Downhill Madness AdventuresThe G banger wasnt feeling to great after a nite spent sitting on the can but a light breakfast nothing and a few imodium later off we bussed to 4640metres above sea lev http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-525911.html Hola todosHier zijn we weer met een volgend verslag van onze belevenissen in Bolivia. Dit keer nemen we jullie mee van de yungas tot aan de hooglanden Ons verhaal begint in het dorpje Coroico en eindigt in een ander klein dorpje Sorata. Hier ons verslag. We hopen dat jullie er allemaal weer van genietenCoroicoHet dorpje Coroico wordt ook wel het paradijs van Eden genoemd. Dit vanwege de gewe http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/La-Paz-Department/Coroico/blog-524897.html