At 3640 metres, La Paz is the highest capital in the world and walking up and down the roads is "breathtaking". We organised a day trip to the nearby sacred indigenous site of Tiahuanaku and spent some time in the very informative coca museum.
We booked our mountain bike tour down the most dangerous road in the world and were advised not to go crazy the night before. Obviously that didn't count for Mr Sloan who got hammered on pints in the English Oliver Pub. He had a hard time starting to cycle at 8am the next morning, luckily it was mostly downhill. Starting high in the Andes, the steep and bumpy La Paz-to-Coroico road plunges down almost 3,600 meters on its spectacular 64-km path to the lush, sub-tropical Yungas and the sleepy town of Coroico. At the end being told an Israeli guy went down the cliffs the day before and died we suddenly realized how dangerous that road really can be.
We booked our mountain bike tour down the most dangerous road in the world and were advised not to go crazy the night before. Obviously that didn't count for Mr Sloan who got hammered on pints in the English Oliver Pub. He had a hard time starting to cycle at 8am the next morning, luckily it was mostly downhill. Starting high in the Andes, the steep and bumpy La Paz-to-Coroico road plunges down almost 3,600 meters on its spectacular 64-km path to the lush, sub-tropical Yungas and the sleepy town of Coroico. At the end being told an Israeli guy went down the cliffs the day before and died we suddenly realized how dangerous that road really can be.
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