Biking Down the World´s Most Dangerous Road! & Animal Refuge

So we survived biking down the ¨World´s Most Dangerous Road¨, La Paz to Coroico with a company called Gravity. This was Tito´s second time defying the odds... we had a great time, enjoyed the scenery and the company of the other travelers. There were 6 Aussies, 4 Irish folks, a Dutch couple and us. Unfortunately one of the Irish guys, took a digger towards the bottom and he may have broken his shoulder. Tito and I stayed in Coroico instead of going back to La Paz with the rest of the group because we were headed North to Rurrenebaque by bus. So we don´t know his outcome, but we´re hoping for the best for him!

The bike trip ended at an animal refuge where the Monkey´s were literally all over Tito, there are some pictures of me trying desperately to get the monkey´s to come to me, but they were too interested in Tito! :) It was fun, but because we had to take a taxi to the closest town of Coroico, we couldn´t stay too long.

The bike trip started in white capped mountains as you can see, and ended in the jungle! Major temperature and humidity change which was unreal!

We continued by bus the following day. We had to take a ¨taxi¨to a town called Yolosita where we would take the ¨2:00¨bus (really anytime between 1:30 and 4 - it arrived around 3:30). When we showed up for the taxi, they put us in the open flatbed of a beat up old truck with three other local people and we enjoyed a hot, dusty 20 minute ride to the town. It was funny because we asked about 5 different people how long the bus was and when it would arrive in Rurrenebaque the answers varied from 12 hours to 2o hours and arriving anywhere between 5 am and 9 am! It turned out to be 16 HOT, HUMID, HOURS, OVERNIGHT in a bus with no bathroom on a dirt road! I didn´t realize that the bus would continue down ¨The Most Dangerous Road¨ but it sure did... it even managed to pass other busses and trucks without falling off the edge. There were a few times I couldn´t look and just prayed! They also pick up lots of people en route to anywhere because people use all the busses for public transportation so they literally pack people in so much that people stand in the aisles and sometimes seats are double booked. An older Chola woman was in Tito´s seat when we got on the bus, but luckily he found another and she got off after about 3 hours... it was interesting to say the least!

Rurrenebaque was amazing, they are getting ready to close the computer lab, so I have to go, but we will update more later. Tomorrow is Tito´s birthday and we are going to celebrate by going on a three day backpacking trek in Sorata to some glaciers and lagunas, we are back in the altitude, so it will be cold, but fun! We´ll update when we get back down!