So, it was finally the day to do one of activities that I had most eagerly anticipated when I booked my trip to Bolivia; cycle 'Death Road'. Like many people, this stretch of road first came my attention when the 'Top Gear' crew decided to tackle it - I had to get involved! 'The World's Most Dangerous Road' owes it name to the fact that, in the not so distant past, an average of 26 vehicles per year disappeared off the edge of the narrow (3.2m wide) gravel road ...

So after doing more trekking over the 4 days of the Inca Trail than I'd done in the entire previous 26 years of my life it was time for some R&R. Firstly, we took ourselves to Aguascalientes where one can soak the aches and pains of their first major trek - I'm more used to choosing which of the 3 lifts to get to my 1st floor workplace than 4 days up and down the Inca Trail! Next we paid over the not so grand total of about 2 pounds for an hour long message ...