After our exciting ride, we cruised La Paz for just one more day. The morning was spent with Alistair from Gravity Biking, going through the ins and outs of coming here to work. Boy did he have some storys...
The last fatality on that road (with another company) was not too long ago. Evidently the girl who flew off the side had been complaing about her brakes all day. When the rest of the group was interviewed by the police they told them this. THe police report decided it was ... suicicde..
He also told us how many of the guides have gone up to set up their own businesses in La Paz. We discussed the ins and outs of the beauracracy of all this and it seems a bit hazzard, but no where near as cut,dried and generaly bullshit as in NZ.
So we (or at least I) am keen.If next Feb is realistic waits to be seen..
In the arvo we ended up seeing the sights of La Paz by taxi. It was a total fluke that hte first taxi we stopped with this in mind had an abnormaly pleasant and helpful driver, who charged peanuts. We cruised all over the heights of the craters that La Paz hides inside, and it was pretty cool to see the city from those angles.
In the eve we met with a Gravity guide who had gone ahead and set up his own gig here. An oxygen bar (!) It seems these things are popping up all over the world, but it actualy makes sense when you{re at 3,700m. We yarned away about life in Bolivia for hours, and he even gave us a 10 min burst on the O2 for free. Good man! In all honesty I{m not sure if it really helped, but we do look silly in the photos...
The last fatality on that road (with another company) was not too long ago. Evidently the girl who flew off the side had been complaing about her brakes all day. When the rest of the group was interviewed by the police they told them this. THe police report decided it was ... suicicde..
He also told us how many of the guides have gone up to set up their own businesses in La Paz. We discussed the ins and outs of the beauracracy of all this and it seems a bit hazzard, but no where near as cut,dried and generaly bullshit as in NZ.
So we (or at least I) am keen.If next Feb is realistic waits to be seen..
In the arvo we ended up seeing the sights of La Paz by taxi. It was a total fluke that hte first taxi we stopped with this in mind had an abnormaly pleasant and helpful driver, who charged peanuts. We cruised all over the heights of the craters that La Paz hides inside, and it was pretty cool to see the city from those angles.
In the eve we met with a Gravity guide who had gone ahead and set up his own gig here. An oxygen bar (!) It seems these things are popping up all over the world, but it actualy makes sense when you{re at 3,700m. We yarned away about life in Bolivia for hours, and he even gave us a 10 min burst on the O2 for free. Good man! In all honesty I{m not sure if it really helped, but we do look silly in the photos...
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