El Camino de la Muerte is a 43 mile long road North of La Paz leading to Coroico. It acquired its name as one side of the narrow dirt road is a sheer cliff in some places over 500m deep ending up in the rain forest below. So the 5 of us headed to the top of it by bus complete with downhill bikes!
At the top we donned are gear and grabbed a traditional Bolivian donut breakfast before setting off down the newer section of road. After passing through the Americans cocaine check point we joined the death road for our descent.
Starting slowly we quickly built up confidence cruising down the road, with occasional stops at crosses to see where previous riders had made the odd mistake!!
The road continued down crossing a river here and passing under a waterfall there until we arrived at the bottom of the road. 4 out of the 5 made it down intact, unfortunately Ian wasn’t as lucky and sustained ‘minor’ injuries.
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