So today I took on a little challenge! I decided to take on “THE WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS ROAD”, which is exactly as it describes, this road is just a dirt road that can only just fit one car on it, with a sheer cliff of up to 600mtrs down one side, in total there had been over 200 deaths a year on the 21mile stretch of road, and I 6 yrs 11 of them were mountain bikers attempting the “WMDR”. We had to get up at 6 to be at the café for 7 were the tour group were picking us up, after the hour drive to the drop point we were given our kit which consisted of helmet, gloves, reflective jacket...

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We Arrived in Aguas Calientes in the afternoon and the first thing that meets you is a huge market that surrounds the station, I suppose to "capture" all the tourists, we found a nice hostel and deposited our bags, then had a look around, Augas Calientes is a very very small town, if not a village. it would take about 5 mins to walk from one side to the other, but still a very lovely place to stay, even though its VERY touristy, is got lots of restaurants, bars and gift shops. after we deposited our bag we headed for the "bus station" (just a bus stop when we got there) to find out the buses u...

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So a few days before we left Cuenca we went for a night out clubbing with Claudia and Jasmine, now the night started off great, we got to the club OK and had some drinks and danced, but after about two hours I was at the bar and Claudia came up to me saying that there was something wrong, and that she felt funny and could not see me properly! And that she was really scared, I asked her what had she drunk and she said just the two drinks we had bought and a coke that a guy gave her, I asked her if she knew this guy and she said that she knew him from college,i was concerned that the drink she h...

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So we were advised to take the international coach from Loja in Ecuador to Puira in Peru we were told that it was the best way to get across the border as the journey itself is about 18 hours and they sort out all the passport control and take you to the nearest town that is 4 hours over the Peru border, so we booked our tickets and waited for the coach, now the coach was due to leave at 3pm but we were still waiting for it to arrive at 4:30 in the end a woman from the coach company came and told everyone to get on a different coach that was waiting around the corner, so at last we were on our...

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This evening we went to see a free jazz concert in the centre of Cuenca, a few hours before Ryan and myself decided to take a wonder around town to pass the time till the concert started, we went to the mine square, the river and the market, but on the way back to the house I spotted a house that had some black smoke coming out of the roof, as we stopped to see what was going on the windows shattered and the smoke came poring out of the windows, as the air went in to the now glassless windows huge flames appeared from nowhere, now most of the houses in South America are built from clay with wo...

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