villazon - uyuni, bolivia
on the map this just looks like the shortest way from the argentine border to uyuni, but it is a great road if you up for an adventure and can hack the 40-odd km of grotty corrugations at the uyuni end.
it's dirt all the way, goes over 4000m and stays up there, gives you every surface from good gravel to clay, bulldust, some deep sand (and plenty of other sand) river crossings, llamas, mining traffic, a welcoming town (atocha) at the 200km mark, and best of all, about 15 or 20km of sandy riverbed, with flowing water! first you go downstream, then up! not to mentiond mad scenery.
we just did it two up on an r11gs. lots of fun.
cheers,
andy.
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