{"id":334,"date":"2008-04-26T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mikegreener.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-04-26T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T15:57:00","slug":"the-death-road-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikegreener.com\/2008\/04\/the-death-road-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Road &#8211; Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyPwcgTI\/AAAAAAAABGg\/vm5VxQoxpiI\/s1600-h\/DSC_0011.JPG\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyPwcgTI\/AAAAAAAABGg\/vm5VxQoxpiI\/s320\/DSC_0011.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193584718953349426\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyfwcgUI\/AAAAAAAABGo\/y-FzJtcAPhw\/s1600-h\/DSC_0018.JPG\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyfwcgUI\/AAAAAAAABGo\/y-FzJtcAPhw\/s320\/DSC_0018.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193584723248316738\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRy_wcgWI\/AAAAAAAABG4\/en-xJMEkdNk\/s1600-h\/DSC_0089.JPG\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRy_wcgWI\/AAAAAAAABG4\/en-xJMEkdNk\/s320\/DSC_0089.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193584731838251362\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyvwcgVI\/AAAAAAAABGw\/V25P9MIZfK4\/s1600-h\/DSC_0051.JPG\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRyvwcgVI\/AAAAAAAABGw\/V25P9MIZfK4\/s320\/DSC_0051.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193584727543284050\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRzfwcgXI\/AAAAAAAABHA\/F7xuQnXA3cM\/s1600-h\/DSC_0059.JPG\"><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YNce_EwcbDM\/SBNRzfwcgXI\/AAAAAAAABHA\/F7xuQnXA3cM\/s320\/DSC_0059.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193584740428185970\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We returned to Samaipata amd took a bus to La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia. It is a beautiful place with plenty of tourism things to do. Except that we had no intentions of finding out what those were. Eric and I had only one thing on the agenda, to tackle the famous death road on mountian bikes. We said our goodbyes to Sanne and Arjan, and signed up at a local hostel for the trip that would drop us on a 70 km ride descending from 4633 meters above sea level downward over 3300 meters to the small town of Coroico. <\/p>\n<p>The road itself was used for years as the primary route between La Paz and Coroico winding and twisting through steep jagged mountains on a muddy, narrow, single lane road. It\u00b4s name was rightly deserved. Numerous buses, cars and bikes have slipped off the side of it plumetting over a 1000 meters to the rocky bottom. Not four days before we arrived an American died when he lost control of his bike and went off the edge. <\/p>\n<p>Now the old road exists as a tourist mountain biking adrenaline destination. A new paved road has replaced it as a commercial truck route, to our disapointment, but a few cars and tourist company caravans can still be found driving it. We couldn\u00b4t wait to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to Samaipata amd took a bus to La Paz, the capital city of Bolivia. It is a beautiful place with plenty of tourism things to do. Except that we had no intentions of finding out what those were. 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