Erin & Regan's South American Adventure
The real "worlds most dangerous road"
Hola,
No photos in this post, we were too busy clinging on for dear life!
The road in question runs from Popayan to the southern Colombian border, a town called Ipiales.
Imagine, if you will, the Manawatu Gorge but make it 10x deeper and 10x longer. Take one small bus, a 20 seater. Find one driver, select him from a mental institution for his obsessive compulsive desire to go as fast as possible and pass everything that gets in his way, even on blind corners.
At one point an old woman and her 4 year old(?) grand daughter were literally thrown from their seats. At that stage mother handed granny the 1 year old(?) and took the 4 year old... We spent the rest of the trip worried granny´d go for another tumble and this time with the 1 year old!
The reason for this manic behaviour, I think, is the fact that this road can only be driven by day, by night there is too much chance of an encounter with guerillas. As it stands the bus driver nearly killed us all, never mind the guerillas.
Well, we finally arrived in Ipiales in one piece, however it seems that I had come down with a fever and upset stomach (probably not related to the bus driving) so we decided to find a place for the night. I hibernated the rest of the afternoon and night, the next morning I was feeling weak but no longer feverish.
