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Other than being dusty and having to be careful not to hit a cyclist, most of Death Road was no worse than many other mountain roads we have been on. The last 6 kilometers though were really tough.This higher area had a lot of waterfalls that landed right on the …

lowest pointDeath Road, Bolivia Messy, dusty, nasty. That is the best way to describe the roads that we travelled to get to death road. It has been very dry for the last week or so so there is a lot of dust. We met a lot of traffic coming along …

Coroico Peru For the last week or so we have been at altitudes greater than 3000 meters. This town is well below that at about 1800 Peters. This means we are hot. I was still feeling sick and all we wanted to do was find a hotel and get settled …

As soon as we were out of La Paz we started looking for gas stations. We found several. The first two or three we went into would not sell us gas! So finally we found a very old looking service station with one guy attending. We pulled in and he …

La Paz, Bolivia

On the road between Copacabana and La Paz if you travel through Copacabana to get to La Paz then it is necessary to go through the Tequina straight. This is just a short distance of water of Lake Titicaca that you have to cross and the only way to do …

Av 6 de Agosto Copacabana Partly cloudy 3

Isla del sol, Bolivia Av 6 de Agosto Copacabana The distance to the Island is not far but the tour boat took close to two hours to get us there. I can only think that there is a no wake policy because all of the tour boats were the same.Our …

Our bike is parked directly under the windows of our room (upper)We first went to a different hotel that was supposed to be an ecolodge. It was about 2km outside town along the beach. The road was terrible with big muddy ponds and rocks to negotiate. When we got there …