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Originally Posted by sanderd
hi,
by now i would remove the infamous death road road in Bolivia. With the new road in place it's mainly a tourist attraction for mountainbike tours.
nonetheless beautiful and impressive, but IMHO due to very little other traffic probably the safest in Bolivia! :-)
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I gotta agree. It isn't even that dangerous for mountain bikers-- of the thousands of tours I've only head of one tourist death.
I even doubt that the Yungas road was any more / less dangerous than any mountain road in Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador.
The new road to Machu Picchu was much scarier than the (old) yungas, IMO. The New Yungas is a beautiful high speed curvy road.
I'm particularly bitter about the Yungas as I spent $50 USD (3 or so days worth of accomidations in La Paz) on a mountain bike tour of it. While it was fun, not even close to worth the expense. $50 is a ton in bolivia!!
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