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4 Of The Most Dangerous & Crazy Roads Around The World
Blog: As We Travel - 17 October 2010
Traveling equals a lot of time spent using different kinds of transport. In New Zealand we spent 60 hours traveling around on buses.
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As easy as riding a bike. The world’s most dangerous road, La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 20 August 2010
“If you go over the edge you have no hope of surviving. You fall for around 600m before you even reach anything you can grab onto.” “At points the road only stretches across for 3m before ending in a sheer cliff face and a drop of around 1,000m.” “Sometimes trucks and buses just come out [...]
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Huayna Potosi – The Day I Nearly Died
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 11 May 2010
I’m not even sure what I was thinking. Presumably my thoughts went along the lines of, “Well, we’ve climbed up mountains before. High mountains, at that. Just how much harder could it really be?” Turns out that scaling a snow-covered mountain in the dead of night with ropes, crampons and an ice-pick is really very [...]
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Cycling Down The Death Road – La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 May 2010
Let’s just bear in mind that this is one of the main things that people come to La Paz for. In case you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, the bike ride down the “Death Road” – well, it’s fairly self-explanatory, isn’t it? But I’ll give it a go, anyway. An hour or so outside [...]
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Failing to die on the Death Road
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 16 October 2009
There are certain things one does when traveling that it’s probably best my mum doesn’t know I’m doing them til afterwards. Cycling down the World’s Most Dangerous Road (© the Inter-American Development Bank), aka the Death Road, is one of them. The road gets its reputation from the days when it used to be the main [...]
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