Happy New Year from Los Yungas

They call it the most dangerous road in the world. Hey, only a couple dozen buses go over the steep edge every year, so maybe it is an exaggeration. And as long as you don’t look out the window the thousand foot precipice and the just-less-than-a-car-width road won’t bother you at all.

Happy New Year from Los Yungas! From the snow-covered mountains of La Paz to a steamy jungle in three hours. We did it by bus. The more valiant do it by mountain bike, just a bad handbrake cable away from, well, not your favourite tourist experience.

Thanks to everyone for your readership, interest, and comments in 2005. Bolivia promises another interesting and unpredictable year ahead and we’ll do our best to cover it. Meanwhile, best to you and yours from The Democracy Center!

And a thank you to my kind readers who caught an earlier Spanish error in the text above, now fixed.