The world's most dangerous road

The most famous tour in La Paz is definitely the biking tour on the world’s most dangerous roads and this was something that we wanted to experience as well! The tour started early in the morning and we drove with a van to the height of 5000 meters. On the top we got our gears and bikes and started to go downhill the road. It was freezing up there and just going downhill didn’t make us any warmer but the views of the mountains were incredible! 

The first part of the road was easy because it was a paved road but the actual death road was only gravel, really narrow and the drop over the edge was hundreds of meters! And the fact that it started to rain made the experience even scarier! Also there were waterfalls on the road and sometimes we had to cross little rivers. In the end we were all totally wet and muddy! 

 

The more down we got, the warmer it got and rest of the day it was actually really sunny and hot. Having the full layers of clothes didn’t make us feel the cycling any easier and some parts of the tour it was a total nightmare! And one part I almost wanted to give up while I got behind from the others and not being fit at all made me feel terrible in those altitudes. So when I finally reached the others I swore to Magda: If I would have known that this is gonna be this hard I wouldn’t have even done this! 

In the end we managed to finish the tour and a cold beer couldn’t taste any better! However, even that we had finished the cycling by then, the most dangerous part was still ahead – driving back the same way with the van as most of the accidents on the death road happen with a car! We did trust to our driver as we knew that there haven’t been any accidents with the tours for years but just looking over the edge from the window made us feel worried… But in the end we survived from the death road safely back to our hostel!