Contemplating the ride.

This tough but extremely rewarding route took us through the first hundred kilometers of the typical lagunas route (past Laguna verde) before taking us away from the main jeep route and onto a much less used beautiful jeep track which led us up and over multiple 4,700m+ high passes. This was my favorite route in Bolivia (and one of my favorites in all of the world), and I would highly suggest it to anyone up for a bit of a challenge!

Kevin far ahead.

There was a whole lot of salt due to the mineral deposits throughout this region.

Contemplating the ride.

Home sweet home for the night.

You can see Kevin to the left, a tiny blob cycling in a vast landscape.

Headed into Bolivia, it’s just around this corner!

Pushing, we did a lot of pushing.

Laguna verde (green).

Another lake along the route.

Admiring one of the funny colored lakes: colored due to the minerals.

Riding through a small altiplano village.

Beautiful camping!

Headed into a storm!

The mountains certainly made us feel small.

One of many river crossings, most of which were half frozen which left our feet very cold!

Kevin crossing a half frozen stream barefoot as its snowing. Miserable!

This is what makes all the hard climbs worth it!!

All around was sand upon sand, though thankfully, the route wasn’t all that bad.

We got snowed on during one of our climbs which made the world even more beautiful!

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