The World´s Most Dangerous Road
7/6 Sat
Where: Laz Paz, Boliva
Built by: Paraguayian prisoners of the war in the 1930´s
Start: La Cumbre
End alternative I Coroico
End alternative II: The bottom of the valley
Length: 6400 m
Verticals: 3600m
Founder: The Inter American Development Bank
No of dead people per year: 200 - 300 (source: BBC news)
On this graveled road with its lovely scenery build by prisoners who perished during the task we went down on bikes sometimes over 70km/h. Thank god for the great suspensions that swallows the quite big gravel rocks which makes the trip more exciting. To make the trip down a little bit more fun, as well as to avoid cars driving up the mountain which prefers to drive on the inside, we concured the road on the left side. After stepping of the bike on the left side for 13 (Tina) and 17 years (Magnus) it was now time to learn to get of on the right side. This to not repeat what a French girl did not to long ago, stepping of on the left side, taking one step back and falling 200m. She then spend about 3 hours in agony before dying. To get an ambulance out here requires that someone walks in to the ambulance office in La Paz and pay cash up front. This requires that someone can make a phonecall to the office in La Paz and for that demands cellphone reception witch you have to bike all the way down to Coroico to get. So with other words - step of the bike on the right side and for god sake do not go straight in the quite tight curves. These advises all except Smithy listened to very carefully. However, Smithy decided to go straight in a curve, but lucky for him and us right where this happens there are some bushes to hold on to. The bike rider after Mr S was quite terrified when he found a lonesome bike and no sight of Smithy. But a woe never happens on its own. The same day Liz were kept hostage in a car in La Paz until scared enough to leave her pin number to her debit card to some bolivians and Lowney lost his passport. But we all survived, and what a thrill!!!! ..... Lowny, by the way, need to sort his life out when it comes to "keep one's things in order"
La Cumbre at 4700m
La Cumbre is cold this early saturday morning
One for the road - Spirits on the bike and a swallow all composed by ..
the crazy swedish guide
Tina is testing the suspensions
Even if it is steep there are sometime bushes to hold on to .... if you fall off.
Steep .... 400m to the bottom of the valley!
Smithy is checking out the precipices ... very convenient for him
Great scenery
The ones that made it...
Where: Laz Paz, Boliva
Built by: Paraguayian prisoners of the war in the 1930´s
Start: La Cumbre
End alternative I Coroico
End alternative II: The bottom of the valley
Length: 6400 m
Verticals: 3600m
Founder: The Inter American Development Bank
No of dead people per year: 200 - 300 (source: BBC news)
On this graveled road with its lovely scenery build by prisoners who perished during the task we went down on bikes sometimes over 70km/h. Thank god for the great suspensions that swallows the quite big gravel rocks which makes the trip more exciting. To make the trip down a little bit more fun, as well as to avoid cars driving up the mountain which prefers to drive on the inside, we concured the road on the left side. After stepping of the bike on the left side for 13 (Tina) and 17 years (Magnus) it was now time to learn to get of on the right side. This to not repeat what a French girl did not to long ago, stepping of on the left side, taking one step back and falling 200m. She then spend about 3 hours in agony before dying. To get an ambulance out here requires that someone walks in to the ambulance office in La Paz and pay cash up front. This requires that someone can make a phonecall to the office in La Paz and for that demands cellphone reception witch you have to bike all the way down to Coroico to get. So with other words - step of the bike on the right side and for god sake do not go straight in the quite tight curves. These advises all except Smithy listened to very carefully. However, Smithy decided to go straight in a curve, but lucky for him and us right where this happens there are some bushes to hold on to. The bike rider after Mr S was quite terrified when he found a lonesome bike and no sight of Smithy. But a woe never happens on its own. The same day Liz were kept hostage in a car in La Paz until scared enough to leave her pin number to her debit card to some bolivians and Lowney lost his passport. But we all survived, and what a thrill!!!! ..... Lowny, by the way, need to sort his life out when it comes to "keep one's things in order"
La Cumbre at 4700m
La Cumbre is cold this early saturday morning
One for the road - Spirits on the bike and a swallow all composed by ..
the crazy swedish guide
Tina is testing the suspensions
Even if it is steep there are sometime bushes to hold on to .... if you fall off.
Steep .... 400m to the bottom of the valley!
Smithy is checking out the precipices ... very convenient for him
Great scenery
The ones that made it...
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