The world´s most dangerous road
Yep, it is. And what makes it doubly dangerous are the Bolivian drivers. When you want to drive a car in Bolivia, you apply for a driving licence. It seems to require visiting several hundred different offices etc. Then you are allowed to drive an under powered car. When you´ve done that for 5 years, you can apply to drive a bigger car, like a 4x4. Drive one of those for 5 years, and you are automatically qualifiued (how????????) to drive a truck or bus or anything else you fancy scaring the pants off people with.
And that´s who we were meeting on this road. We were only a little over an hour out of La Paz when the police pulled us over. But, no trouble, just half the road had fallen away so there was a diversion. Now in Spanish, the word ´diversion´ means ´fun´. Never confuse the two.
I´ll be back
posted by Cybersavvy UK @ 4:14 PM
2 Comments:
Dangerous drivers huh?
Do you mean there are actually drivers that scare you worse than I did?
;)
do they keep their lights on in the dark?
Chris
I never mentioned this at the time but it has just occurred to me. It is considered 'dangerous' to drive at night in Bolivia. So, you just stop and park up. But not park up how we imagine it ie pull off the orad. You just stop. Then, you climb out of your truck (if you aren't too tired or smashed), walk back a few yards and pull up a bit of greenery (pref not a cactus) and dump it in the road. This way anyone hurtling round the corner in the dark knows there is something up ahead and can avoid it. Except that it's always about 10ft only behind the vehicle and in the time it took you to read that sentence you'd have hit the truck.
Lights? No Chris, I suspect you have Bolivian blood. Totally unnecessary day or night, just like with you!!
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