 So this is the start of the death road, but the weather up at this top section does not look very good. Hi, I'm Lavi. And I'm Oli. And this is our hero, Bumblebee. Together, we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. Join us for season three, here in South America. Okay, this is what it looks like when you have to take down all of your equipment, all in one go. Oh, what an awesome room, hey? Bye-bye, most beautiful apartment in the world. This was our view for the last five days. See the church and the city skyline over there. We're up on the fifth floor. It's beautiful. We actually got an upgraded room because the previous room had a leak in the ceiling. And that was that room. And then they built a new roof. That room. And then they said, okay, we're going to move you to this room. And this one was a triple room with a better view. Beautiful. Hitting the roads of La Paz, let's do it. On a nice Sunday, empty roads. Yeah, this is definitely a good day to ride around the city. Oh, definitely. Good morning world, welcome back to the channel. It's day number 316 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the crazy busy center of La Paz in Bolivia. And we've already been refused petrol this morning, which is a bit strange, but we had heard that locals are quite hesitant to give fuel to foreigners. Locals actually have a discounted rate. It's a government subsidized rate. And for foreigners, the rate is like triple, the local rate. And so they have to like fill in loads of details in the machine and say, we're filling up for a foreign vehicle and a lot of petrol station attendants, they basically say, no, I'm not going to do that. We have spent actually the last five days here in La Paz. It wasn't our intention to spend that much time here, but we got food poisoning, both of us, with our nice vegetarian meal. So today was our death road day. But we're laying dead in the bed already because yesterday we had a meal outside and yeah, we came back and our bellies were really aching. And the whole night we were just like, you know, throwing up and going to the toilet. Yeah, can you believe it? No, I absolutely can't believe it. But anyway, we got food poisoning and then we were like in bed for like two days. We couldn't move. It was not a very good time. I can assure you. So yeah, it was pretty hectic, but we're feeling all right now. That's good. We are definitely ready to hit the road again. And we have a really, really, really exciting day today because we are heading to the famous death road here in Bolivia. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be absolutely awesome. So let me show you guys the route for today. We finally have a map of Bolivia. So we are here in La Paz. And today we are going to be making our way over to the mountains to take on the death road before returning to La Paz, heading back down to Patakamaya where we will be turning off and heading towards the border of Chile. Look at all these food places. Yeah, looks nice, eh? Oh man, look at this car. It just comes straight past me. Yeah. It's an incredibly busy morning in La Paz. And the entrance to the death road is 66 miles away. But man, I do not know how long it's going to take us to get out of the city. Probably the whole day. Oh my God. And it's a Sunday. We chose to leave on this day. We were like, wow, Sunday will be a great day because the roads will be nice and empty. It'll be good. But no, it's the same. Yeah, it's the same or maybe even worse. So we have another setback in our plans as well. And that is that the border between Bolivia and Peru that we were going to take at Lake Titicaca is actually closed at the moment. So Peru is going through some political turmoil at the moment and there's a lot of protests, there's a lot of violence and there's a lot of areas basically that you can't go. And one of those areas is right in front of the border between Bolivia and Peru. So basically the government has closed that border. So it means that our only option is to take the border between Bolivia and Chile. So back into Chile for like the 10th time and then take the border between Chile and Peru at Arica. But what it does mean is it's gonna add nearly a thousand miles onto our journey. So it is a big detour. Yeah. But before we left Bolivia, we still wanted to take on this death road. We'd been wanting to take it on since we got to La Paz. Yes, I remember when I was a child and there was a documentary on the TV about the death road when it was actually still used by people. So I had some flashbacks and I was like, that's so cool that we actually now can drive the death road. So it looks like it's gonna be a super busy but super exciting and quite scary day today. I'm ready for it. Yeah, and it's already 10.45. So better hit the road, let's go. And then stuck in the traffic. Better hit the road, let's go. Oh, look at this. But it's a really nice market here actually on the side of the road. You can buy anything and everything. Yes, she gave us fuel. Whoa, thank you. We basically said to her, oh, is it okay nine Bolivianos a litre, which is triple the local price? And she was just like, yeah, that's fine. And we don't even know if she put it through the system as a foreign price or whatever or if she took the difference. But anyway, good for her, that's fine. I'm happy for them if they can just keep it. And also at the beginning I said to her, oh, we don't need the receipt, it's fine. Exactly. Bolivianos triple the price, it's fine. Exactly, just try to encourage them. Just give us fuel, please. Because man, we can't keep riding to different petrol stations in the city. That's insane. Well, we're starting to get up and out of the city a little bit more now. We're heading up into the hills. Wow, the hills there look stunning around here. Absolutely stunning. But despite our illness over the last few days, we at least got to have one day to have a look around La Paz, which was nice. And when we rode in, we noticed they had the cable car system. So we said, oh my God, that is the way that we have to go around the city. And we did. Good. We saw the past from above. And it was absolutely spectacular. What a crazy, crazy city. I don't like riding in it, but seeing it from above in the comfort of a cable car is absolutely awesome. Yeah, it was really, really cool. But oh my god, we went as well to the witch market. There were like baby llama fetuses everywhere. It was absolutely insane. I mean, this place was crazy, but super interesting to see. I actually found out that they used the baby furters to build in their house. When they build a new house, they put it in there, in the foundation. No way. Are you serious? Yeah. And it's like for protection. But it didn't protect the baby llama very much, did it? No, they are pretty crazy. Wow. We're out of the city. We've just passed the payage barrier heading out and into the mountains. And look how clear the roads are. Beautiful. It's like a dream. Yeah, it is a dream. And you have already massive and epic mountain views. So first we're heading to a town called Koryoko. And that is actually where the start of the death road is. Now you can start on either side of the death road. One entrance. Oh, look, they're waving at us. Hello. So you can either start at the top of the death road or at the bottom of the death road. But the interesting thing about the death road is that the traffic flow is the opposite to the normal road. So if you're heading downhill, instead of being on the right like we are now, you're actually on the left. Now the left side is the cliff side, the really, really, really crazy high and dangerous cliff side. So basically if you're heading downhill on the death road and you pass another car, you have to be on the cliff side and the car or motorbike or whatever coming up is on the inside. So for that reason we decided that we will take the death road from the bottom to the top. And that means we'll be on the left always against the cliff. And if we find a car coming up to us or our bicycles or motorbike, then we will be safely against the cliff edge. And there will be other dangerous outside. Exactly. Plus as well, going uphill, I believe you've got a bit more control than going downhill, going downhill. You basically have to keep the brakes on nearly the whole time. You've got the issue of maybe slipping and with this bike being as heavy as it is, we just can't risk that. So I mean we dropped Bumblebee already a few times and to drop it on the death road, it wouldn't be very wise I guess. No, this road is incredibly narrow at points and that drop is nothing to be taken lightly. That is a really, really dangerous drop on the side. So first we've got to make our way over to the small village called Corioco and then the party starts. Look at that. We can't even see the top of the mountain here. It's just in the clouds. Crazy man. Oh no, we've just come over the pass and it's raining on the other side. Oh, it's incredibly wet over here. This is terrible. It is actually terrible, yeah. And we can't see anything. Oh man, yeah I think we're going to have to get to this town and see how the weather is down there because this looks absolutely terrible conditions to take on the death roads. Yeah. I mean it was so sunny and nice on the other side and that's why we were like, oh it's a great day, let's go, let's go, let's do it. Yeah. I don't know anymore. Flash plate. So this is the start of the death road. So this is where you would start if you're heading from the top, heading downhill, but the weather up at this top section does not look very good. So still not 100% sure what to do. Ravi's trying to ask these guys over here if the weather will get better. We're actually considering now just starting at the top and rolling down because we're here. Hola. Yes. Today is not possible because the road is closed. The road is closed. There is the landscape. So you can't get to the bottom? Today is not possible. Today is not possible. Thank you so much for letting us know. You can come back for the new road? Yes. To Koryoko. When did the landslide happen? Approximately two days ago. Okay, thank you. Gracias. Thank you. The dream is over. Yeah, it looks really that all signs are against us going down or up this road, unfortunately, but instead we bought some crisps. So we're having a little snack break here and try to get over the big, big disappointment. I mean, we were so happy to go to the salt lakes. We were so happy to go here to the death road and like both things are not very recommendable in the wet season. So please guys, come here in the dry season. Sometimes you just can't go against Mother Nature and we just have to accept it. Yeah, we have to go with the flow and that means we actually will turn around and head to our real destination to head to the border to Chile. Yeah. And at least we can say that when we get back over that way that there's going to be no rain because we're heading towards the Atakama Desert. I'm actually excited for that. So that is it from the death road here in Bolivia. Disappointment. But I actually spoke to one of the workers that was coming up the road in a truck and he told me that this landslide is a massive landslide and he told me that it's still ongoing now and because of the wetness and the rain, the landslide is just continuing. They can't start working on it. They can't do anything basically. He basically said to us, I advise that you don't start going down because you're only going to have to turn around and come all the way back up again and even turning around on that road is going to be incredibly difficult. So anyway, we're going to make our way back over to La Paz now, back over to the sunny side of the mountains which I'm super excited about but at least we got to see the beginning of the death road and we can be sure that someone somewhere does not want us to ride that road. I can't see anything. So we thought we'd take the opportunity before leaving the rainiest, wettest place in the world. We're going to fill up our water here because this is beautiful, fresh rainforest mountain water and we can't say no to that. Oh my goodness. It's a good job I've got all my rain gear on, eh? I think the water went inside this glove. Ha! Yes! I am completely wet, hey? Some beautiful, fresh mountain water. We're back on the sunny side of the mountain. Yeah it's still very cold though but at least it's not raining anymore. Yeah I didn't realize until I saw the sign that this pass from La Paz over to the death road that we just crossed is actually 4,650 meters high which means it's the second highest pass we'll have ever taken. Absolutely crazy. Yeah it was pretty hectic and a little bit disappointing as well that we couldn't take the death road but I mean we had so many signs you know. There were so many obstacles for us it was like don't go to the death road don't go to the death road don't go to the death road we actually came to the start of the death road and right there it tells us a person literally comes and tells us don't do it. We are definitely going to come back for a series that's going to be called Bolivia in the dry season and we're going to go and sell out to uni and we're going to do the death road and we're going to stay dry the whole time. For sure. So we just stopped here for a snack in the town of Patakamaya. And this town is the turn off towards the Chilean border so we've looked on the high overlander and we found a hostel about 60 miles closer to the border so we decided that we're going to make one last push for today so tomorrow we're going to Chile but it's really hard to find like anything around here we just wanted to stop have a coffee have a sandwich but there's like no good options here so we just have to settle for a pack of crisps. It's a hard life as a vegetarian hey it's a hard life but there are always some nice potato chips also can you see some difference about Ollie? Oh the boy is getting a haircut so funny actually because it took him like 30 minutes and then I checked afterwards and I think he forgot like something in the back here his barber shop looked really cool so that's true he was really friendly and really nice I liked him a lot this is my first haircut in such a long time as well and I think you're going to have to get some scissors and touch it up later hey yeah can see there's a super mursado over here oh my helmet's so squeaky see what they've got quite a lot of stuff actually this is one of the biggest shops we've seen in Bolivia so far noodles yeah I can't go wrong with some of those and then maybe some cookies for dessert is that really five bolivianos? wow it's really cheap what else have they got? what else have they got? some juice can of peas to go with our noodles yes please that'll do for tonight beautiful gracias here we go I got us dinner and dessert I think I finally have my front camera working again because I couldn't get it to turn on all the way since we had that snack break anyway we had to go around in circles quite a few times but we finally found hostile cariwata which is right here and apparently we have a place to park bumblebee as well wow hola wow it's a puma yes he said in this area here hola buenas hola como estas? muy bien hola hola mucho gusto mucho gusto robert robert atrizia a mucho gusto looks like we found ourselves room for the night good evening guys we made it happy and alive yes yeah we were going round and round and round this town trying to find this hostile which at first we thought was like five k's down that way then we went back into town and then we reached like a military border post hostile ah aqui it's okay ah here no this way okay this way okay he was like no not this way but eventually we found it and we're here yeah it's a really really nice place to be here with two little cute kids running around they're trying to talk to us but we don't understand anything and there's a cute little dog and a little cat that they keep playing with yes yes and the dog's name is apple they're just preparing our room at the moment I don't know if they were expecting guests but it's good we at least have a room for tonight yes so we have decided to take some rooms for the next three to four days actually because we have to make a lot of distance 1000 miles detour exactly it's like a massive detour and we are so far behind schedule now that we said okay let's try to get up tomorrow morning very early let's try to smash out some k's let's not waste any time yeah because taking rooms we can just quickly get the stuff off the bike put it in the room next morning at sunrise put it back on the bike and hit the road and we have a lot of miles to cover so it's going to really benefit us so now we are about 60 miles from the Chilean border so we reckon that tomorrow we might be able to do a double border crossing crossing over to Chile and then up and crossing over at Arica to Peru as well we'll see if we can make it in one day it's going to be interesting to try and that's it from us today at the end we did 200 miles we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and if you really really really like our videos then you can join us on patreon the link is in the description below we will see you next time guys look at this nice room here everything's so nice and clean and a light and we have a little bathroom as well oh look at that it is as well just 50 bolivianos which is about I think it's about six pounds yeah amazing good price yes for this place and a place a secure place for bumblebee and guys I just want to point it out again that our travel kettle is absolutely our superstar because we can have noodles for dinner like super cheap and we can have coffee in the morning as well super cheap so if you want to travel cheap and you take some rooms get a kettle it's amazing and Ollie's working hard loading on the footage of the day yeah