Well Basically, left Puno and Lake Titicaca and headed for La Paz, a mere 7 hour bus journey later and there I was.

Checked into the hostal and immediately recognised and was recognised by a couple of people from Cusco, so we all got to know each other once again over a couple of drinks and then a couple more, which was cool. Met a ton of other people (drunkards) of whom i remembered none the very next day.

So after the introductory night i set about making the most of my short time in Bolivia and immediately went and booked the La Paz - Corioco 'Worlds most dangerous road' for the very next day. Of course that meant a 'quiet' night the night before, and all was on track until i met a group of English Gap Year students, one of whom had been working alongside Simon for the past 7 months, so stories and all were exchanged, without the alcohol for me though, and discussed routes through South America and potential meeting points etc. etc.

The day of 'death road' started very early, and extremely coldly as we were taken up to 4700m above sea level at 8 in the morning, to start the descent. Wearing 5 layers and the windbreaker jacket provided i was still freezing to start off with, and could see why all rivers and part of the lake where we started were frozen over! The first 30km of downhill cycling were extremely easy, reaching speeds of upto 60km/h apparently, getting used to the bikes and everything and having fun warming up, after that came the interesting part, where the road turned into gravel and the ever present barriers at the side of the road dissapeared and were replaced by tiny patches of foliage and 200m cliff face up on one side and 300m down on the other. Still the quick pace was maintained and everything was cool, exceptfor one little wobble which left me a little too close to the edge (a couple of inches)!

After surviving and getting my cold beer at the end of the road, and having a quick power nap on the bus back up it was time to celebrate still be alive, just, so more friends were made over more drinks and such, and i met up with Billie and Alex, a brother and sister i met in Guatemala first, to travel the next day to the jungle....