We took a 3 hour collectivo from La Paz and ‘checked in’ to the camp site. We were the only people camping, 7everyone else had lodges. It was a pretty cool campsite though, it had a little table with a light for us to eat our super noodles at and it had 2 pools, hamocks and a hot tub… and NO dogs! Once we checked in, we went down to the cafe to pay for death road and whilst there Jonho was chatting to the guide telling him we were going to get some petrol for the gas stove and he kindly went into the back yard and gave us a water bottle full of petrol (strange that he had it) and then called Jonho a terrorist!
For our first meal with the gas stove we needed some ingredients which was pretty hard to find as there was no big supermarket so we made tuna pasta in tomato sauce… which doesn’t sound so bad but the tuna looked like cat food and didn’t taste too clever either.
On our second day, DEATH ROAD!! So, this is the most dangerous road with the highest number of deaths in the world. It is a very narrow 32km downhill road, next to a cliff with a very steep drop into the bottom of the valley. It took us 3 hours to bike down and was pretty scary at parts, especially when you go fast and around the corners. None of us fell off thankfully.. Kerry had one near miss. It was so much fun! In the evening we chilled out in the hamocks, ‘cooked’ super noodles and played cards.
On our final day we rented the hot tub which was basically a hot bath…we should have realised this as the name of the camp site was “ECO” lodge so they were hardly going to have the bubbles going. It was actually really good though once Jonho got used to the boiling water and stopped sitting on the side dipping his toe in. Next stop Uyuni…
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 