At the end of the ´´worlds most dangerous road´´ there is a beautiful little town called Coroico, perched on the edge of steep valleys in the sub-tropical region of The Yungas.
We spent a few days in a monkey sanctuary with comically long limbed spider monkeys, capuchins, a red howler monkey and spider monkeys.
This is Sambo, the spider monkey
After that we stayed in a beautiful hillside retreat called Sol y Luna, in a little cabin nestled in the jungle. Nic did the washing in our outdoors style jungle bathroom.
The journey back up to La Paz on the $120m replacement for the WMDR was pretty incredible, rising from the jungle through the cloud level and up into the mountains clinging to the valley walls. Visibility was down to metres when we went through the clouds, not nice when the minibus driver is on the wrong side of the road to avoid potholes, and there's buses coming the other way and a 400-600m drop to your side. The amount of engineering that had gone into the road was incredible, and it was also interesting to see that man just couldnt hold back natures desire to destroy the road; the road was buckled and unsettled by landslides and rivers, rock anchors had popped out and the tarmac replaced with cobblestones that could flex with the ground benmeath it. They also have excavators and bulldozers on constant standby to fix the road as and when it is required.
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