You can build a modern mountain road with guardrails, signage, and sensible engineering—but you can’t stop a tourist from ...
Midway through Bolivia, where the Amazon and the Andes meet, is a notoriously beautiful and treacherous path. Officially known as North Yungas Road but more infamously as “The Death Road,” this track ...
It's 12 feet wide, at best, and descends nearly 12,000 feet in just over 40 miles, winding through the Amazon rainforest with a lack of guardrails and an even more significant absence of visibility ...
Los Yungas in Bolivia, is a narrow region extending from La Paz to the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, characterized by its humid climate with constant mists and high rainfall; It has green ...
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia´s "Death Road" might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country´s ...
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According to the U.S. State Department, the political and social situation in Bolivia remains uncertain since the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and the violence that accompanied ...
LA PAZ (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Saturday violence in Bolivia could "spin out of control" following recent skirmishes between security forces and coca farmers loyal to ousted President ...