For our last day in La Paz we decided to bike( almost all downhill), the ¨world´s most dangerous road¨. Marla figured if Toni could do it then so could we, hehehehe. The road starts at 4600 meters elevation and drops to 1300 meters.
The first hour or so is paved and you can just bomb down this road, our guide figures you get up to around 60 and you could go faster if you didn´t have to stay in a group. After that you get to the dangerous portion, the single lane gravel road that used to be an Inca trail and was converted to a road in 1946 by Parugaian prisoners of war. Since it follows a mountain there are plenty of blind corners with straight down drops of 300 meters or more. One spot they used to use to throw criminals off the edge.
Since its gravel its also very dusty when vehicles drive by and we needed to wear dust masks for most of the gravel portion. We found out at the end that 2 bikers die each year and 100 motorists. The drive up is even worse as the road barely fits a bus at some portions.
Total time down, around 4 hours which included stops for several broken chains, including mine.
So once we got down we showered ate lunch and boarded a bus to get back up. Since some people we´re not going back up they took their time at lunch and we didn´t end up going back up until it started to get dark, it made the ride all that more exciting. My hand still hurts from Marla squeezing it:)
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