Camino de la Muerte (Road of Death)
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Today we did the Death Road near La Paz. Its a 63 kms mountain bike ride down the world's most dangerous road, also known as the Road of Death.
Originally built in the 1930ies by prisoners fromもっと詳しく
Death Road - Start of ride
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
The first 21 kms of the ride are asphalted. This part is common between the old and the new road. The road like the rest of the road as well is quite steep downhill amd has a lot of curves. Weもっと詳しく
Death Road - Drive to old road
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
After the 1st 21 kms of asphalted road that we had done in 1 hour (including the stops), we stopped for some snacks and water.
From here we again sat in the van and drove about 5-10 kms to theもっと詳しく
Death Road - The actual one
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
When we started at the actual Death Road at Chuspipata, it was very humid and cloudy. Since we were still at around 3500 mts above sea level, it was still quite cold. It was a fantastic start to theもっと詳しく
Death Road - Mirador Balconsillo
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
The track was very rough dirt road with a lot of loose stones, wet and slippery in places where there were waterfalls. The road was on the side of very steep clifgs and sometimes less than 3 mtsもっと詳しく
Death Road - Waterfalls
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Further on the road there are many waterfalls. It was a lot of fun riding through them.
Death Road - Zip lining
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
We continued down the road. The views were amazing and we managed to keep a very good pace going down.
The next stop was for an optional zip line across the valley. 3 of us from the group opted forもっと詳しく
Death Road - Down to Yolosita
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
The last stretch of the death road was quite dust with a lot of loose sand and stones. We made it to the end by about 3:30 pm. The views even on this stretch were stunning.
Death Road - Yolosita
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
We ended the trip at a resort in Yolosita. It was a very beautiful place with 2 swimming pools and some amazing variety of flowers. It was almost like walking around in a rainforest.
We had our lunchもっと詳しく
Death Road - end of day
2017年10月22日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We were at the resort till 6 pm. After a swim, we walked around the place appreciating the beautiful flowers and nature.
The return journey was an uphill one back to La Paz. It took us 3 hours toもっと詳しく
Off to the Amazonas (Rurrenabaque)
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
The next phase of the travel was to go down to the amazonas and explore the jungle and the pampas. There are 2 options to reach Rurrenabaque (430 kms away) a small town know as the gateway to theもっと詳しく
Amazonas 1st sight
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
The flight to Rurrenabaque was a short one and we soon were flying over the amazonas. The river Beni, one of the tributaries of the mighty amazon was visible below as we started landing.
It was a tinyもっと詳しく
Walk to Rurrenabaque
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
It took us about 30 mim to walk to the town but it gave us the opportunity to explore the area around as we walked. This part of Bolivia, the normal mud brick houses from other rural parts wereもっと詳しく
Sights during walk to Rurrenabaque
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
On the way to the village, we saw many fruit trees and some birds we couldn't identify. There was also a cashew plantation as well.
One interesting thing we observed was that none of the vehicles, beもっと詳しく
Rurrenabaque checkin
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We reached our hostel (El Churichal Hostel) and checked in. The rest of the evening was spent going from one tour company to another and comparing their offers and prices.
We settled for theもっと詳しく
Evening by the amazon
2017年10月23日, ボリビア ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
In the evening, we spent some time by the shore of the amazon enjoying the beauty of the place.
Into the amazon jungle
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
As planned, we were ready by 8:30 am. The motorcycle taxis arrived a bit late and took us to the Escorpion tour office. After gathering the food and other stuff we'll need, we were off on theもっと詳しく
Deeper along the rio Beni
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The deeper we went the more tranquil it became. At some places, it was quite shallow and other places quite deep and slow. On the way, we saw some of the locals taking bananas and watermelons in theirもっと詳しく
Reached Escorpion camp
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
After about 3 hours of boat ride, we arrived at the Escorpion camp area. The rio Honda joins the rio Beni near the camp. We got off and helped carry some of the food stuff to the huts.
Views around the refuge
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
There were an amazing variety of butterflies around the refuge area. We spent the afternoon roaming around at the edge of the jungle near the camp.
More insects around the area
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
There were a lot of variety of spiders as well. One of them was as big as the hand. This one catches and eats small birds and butterflies and in the night, even bats.
Lunch time at Escorpion refuge
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
While we had been exploring the area, the cook Wiki had been busy cooking a delicious lunch for us. For the vegetarian part, it was egg with rice and 2 different kinds of salads. All this along withもっと詳しく
The jungle trek no. 1
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Since we had just half a day today, the afternoon plan was a 3 hrs hike into the jungle nearby. After lunch we started with the trek.
Just at the edge of the camp, our guide Miguel showed is the plantもっと詳しく
More plants and their usage
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Further in, we saw many more plants and fruits. We were shown how some of the ants built their ant hill up the tree for protection from ant eaters. There was a tree (Ajo Ajo) with the bark tasting andもっと詳しく
Another variety of tiny coconut
2017年10月24日, ボリビア ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
We saw another variety of coconut. This one had 4 sections inside. The oil from this is extremely healthy for the skin. After a while, we reached the river.