{"id":425,"date":"2016-11-29T06:52:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1_1480938726"},"modified":"2017-07-03T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T06:26:54","slug":"death-road-todes-strasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Death Road \/ Todes Strasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29.11.2016 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coroico,\u00a0BOL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Km: 138681\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Death Road \/ Todes Strasse<\/p>\n<p>I do not feel comfortable in La Paz and continue after one night. First I ride over a 4800 meter high pass and then slightly down until the Death Road begins. Unfortunately, it start to rain, but was well suited to the &#8220;most dangerous road of the world&#8221;. The road is in good condition and only accessible to tourists. So it&#8217;s not a dangerous road anymore, because the trucks and buses are now using a bypass road.<br \/>\nNext to me are hundreds of mountain bike bikers on the road. One person speaks to me in German and we find out that the brother is from a mate. Michael also travels around the world and so our paths meet each other by chance. Together we reach the bottom of the road and have completed an altitude of 3700 meters down into the valley. After the farewell, I continue up the mountain a bit and spend the night in a small mountain village.<\/p>\n<p>**********************<\/p>\n<p>Da ich mich in La Paz nicht wohl f\u00fchle fahre ich gleich weiter. Zuerst \u00fcber einen 4800 Meter hohen Pass und dann etwas herunter, bis die Death Road beginnt. Leider beginnt es zu regnen, was aber gut zu der \u201egef\u00e4hrlichsten Strasse der Welt\u201c passt. Die Strasse ist aber in einem guten Zustand und heute nur noch f\u00fcr Touristen zug\u00e4nglich. So ist es nicht eine besonders gef\u00e4hrliche Strasse mehr, denn die Lastwagen und Busse fahren nun auf einer Umgehungsstrasse.<\/p>\n<p>Neben mir sind noch hunderte Mountain Bike Fahrer auf der Strasse. Einer spricht mich auf Deutsch an und wir finden heraus, dass er der Bruder von einem guten Kollegen ist. Michael reist auch um die Welt und so treffen sich unsere Wege per Zufall. Gemeinsam erreichen wir den Talboden und haben 3700 H\u00f6henmeter absolviert. Nach der Verabschiedung fahre ich noch ein wenig den Berg hinauf und \u00fcbernachte in einem kleinen Bergdorf.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-425 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/?attachment_id=691'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Puente-Diablo-600x338.jpg\" 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138681\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Death Road \/ Todes Strasse I do not feel comfortable in La Paz and continue after one night. First I ride over a 4800 meter high pass and then slightly down until the Death Road begins. Unfortunately, it start to rain, but was well suited to the &#8220;most dangerous road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america-ii","category-infiniteroad","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infiniteroad.ch\/wordpress_infiniteroad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}