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Published: September 21st 2007
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La Paz is such a cool city, its sourunded by mountains and has grown so big that people are now building on the steep sides of the them.
its very busy, the roads are completly full, but only with cool old buses or taxis or mini buses who stick destinations in there window and you just jump in and out!
theres street food stalls everwhere and you can buy anything from shampoo to screws to bags of coca.. we saw a man selling plug cords for tvs and another who had one hand full of blue pens and one of black..
there are many more backpackers here! its like being back in SE Asia! which is reall good as were making loads of crazy friends again! we also found an insane ex pat bar called Olivers travles... hes english and well likes to see everyone drunk!
we went to a cocoa museum.. we were spose to goto a football match but didnt make it we also missed going to see the old ladys with bowler hats wrestle! i blame the above pub.
we did however do the WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS ROAD!!!!!!
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an old mounatin road which until last year was the main transport from bolivia north (kind) and at the time had an average of 300-400 deaths a year!
people have been mountain biking it for 9 years and there have been 11 deaths.
so after hearing this we were ready to go! we drove upto 4,500 meters above sea level.. riding in a circle ran you out of breath!
but it started well on the tramac section which was all down hill! and the views were amazing!
then there was a 3k up hill section.. which at this hieght was the hardest thing iv ever done ! no oxygen and seeing as i havent been doing the most exercise in the world i nearly died! but i made it and then the rest was down hill!!!
about 20 mins in we came across police .. a bus had hit a lorrey and they both went over the edge! lucky this area wasnt so steep.. aparently no one died but we saw them pulling the bus up on the way home!
we soon got off the tarmac and onto the actual death road!
all gravel and stones and very steep..
the law is you have to ride on the side next to the sheer cliff edge! which allways is a 1,000 to 2,000 foot drop.. the roads about 2-3 meters wide and all the way down is decorated with crosses..
the ride was beautiful! there was ovehanging jungle, waterfalls going straight over the road and the best view of the valley below!!
the rough terrain did take its tole and today i feel like ive spent a night in a prison.. (guides joke) but true
after the ride we went to an animale sanctury saw lots of animales some wild..
on the way back up in the bus there had been a huge land slide and we had to drive round it!
la paz has been soooooo much fun but were kind of getting stuck here!
so we plan to leave on sunday and head up to Cococabana!!
ciao
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