As Jane, possibly wisely, decided to give ´the world´s most dangerous road´a miss, I´d be cycling around 64-kilometres downhill on a narrow gravelly footpath, accompanied by a sheer drop and 4 guys from the hostal, two Irish girs, an Aussie, and another Englishman. Wikipedia bit... "1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the "world's most dangerous road". One estimate is that 200 to 300 travellers were killed yearly along the road. On 24 July 1983, a bus veered off the Yungas Road and into a canyon, killing more than 100 passengers in what is said to be Bolivia's worst road accident... Yungas Road remains dangerous. At least 18 cyclists died on the ride since 1998." We began the day meeting at El Solario, the hostal/tour operator, for breakfast, a brief from the guide, and our
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