Worlds Most Dangerous Road

To get out of La Paz we booked a bike tour down the worlds most dangerous road. This goes from La Paz to Corica and drops about 3000m in about 50km (or something silly). It is the most dangerous road because they have the most deaths a year, and it is also the worlds most fucking stupidest road. It is single track, made of dust and rock and cut into the side of the moutain with a vertical drop of about 400m off the left hand side most of the way - and by vertical I mean straight down.

They next allow double decker buses and huge trucks to use the thing. When they meet one of them has to do this sort of kamakazi reverse into the nearest passing spot, I swear I saw one lorry do this, smash into the mountain and then get almost the whole of one of his wheels off the edge, I wanted to video it incase the thing toppled over the side. Oh and where was I at the time, right beside it about 50cm from the axle holding onto my bike and praying that I lived.

To be honest some of the road is ok, nothing but dirt, but spectacular scenery. The problem we had was the mist came down and most of the corners are blind bends so not only do you have to worry about falling off, you have to worry about being hit by oncoming traffic.

To top it all off Rach was really ill that day so struggled to keep her insides in most of the journey. Obviously we made it ok and spent to night in a lovely hotel with a swimming pool playing pool with some mates. We also then got told the horro stories about other travellers by our bike guide for the day - stories of people falling off the edge or coming off their bikes to disfigure them sselves on the moutain (it is all down hill so you go pretty fast). I´m glad he only told us this at the end