Overlanding Bolivia's incredible Laguna Route in our VW BUS!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- In 2023, with time running out on our Bolivian visa, we made the bold decision to drive our 1976 VW kombi across Bolivia's toughest route. Known as the Laguna Route, it is a hostile 500km dirt road cutting across Bolivia's volcanic region at over 4000m above sea level.
The route is so high that air is much thinner and so not only is it difficult for people to breathe, but it will also prove a challenge for Ruby's engine.
Cut off from society, it is not a place you want to encounter a serious breakdown and so we agreed to travel the route with our new friends Louis & Kareen... Better known as @FearlessOnFourWheels
This promises to be one of our most challenging journeys yet.
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Let us know what your favourite part of the Laguna Route was...
The landscape, the flamingos or the thermals 📝
Definitely the Red Laguna with the Flamingoes. But saying that….. what a trip. Such unusual landscape. Beautiful. Think so far this is my favourite video. ❤❤❤
Laguna Colorada was truly spectacular. It's mind blowing that places like this exist. It was like visiting another world. So happy you enjoyed it 😊
Great video! Amazed by all the scenery - not sure what I expected for Bolivia but very surprised. Loved the flamingos.
Bolivia has quite a diverse landscape. We loved exploring the dense rainforest in Bolivia as well. It really surprised us as a country. Not many travellers spend too much time there. They just want to drive the Salt Flats.
Hello, its nice to meet you. I am very excited to follow your journey! You seem like lovely and fun people. wow that wind was so strong. it looks like you had a fantastic trip ! love it. looking forward to catching up on all your videos. Tanya
Hi Tanya, we're so happy you found us 😊 And just as we're preparing to make our final drive down to the end of South America 🤩
The Laguna Route in Bolivia was stunning, only of the most spectacular places we have visited on our travels.
Looking forward to sharing more of our travels with you. Tomorrow, we are resharing a film from our time in Colombia whilst we finish editing our Uruguay film.
Lee
Hey guys we loved this shot 2:23 the landscape looked incredible. You guys are super brave with the dirt roads. We would be like nope not taking our home on that ahaha but we are much larger
The red lake was in incredible ❤
Loved it guys 😊
It actually wasn't as challenging as we thought. Just a lot of washboard.
Incredible landscape though. I wanted to get so much more video with our drone Steve, but it was crazy windy. You can see him getting blown about a bit in some of the shots, at one point we almost got swept away 😬
Hard choice but for me the landscape at the site of the Flamingos was pretty spectacular!
That Laguna is called Laguna Colorada. It's the main highlight for people who drive that route.
It was stunning, especially at sunset. The colours danced off of the pink water ❤️
Amazing landscape- we hope to do this journey one day ❤
If you ever find yourself in Bolivia, you definitely need to drive this route. It was absolutely stunning ❤️
You're obviously doing a lot of hard miles , what engine do you have & how is it standing up to the test ?
Yes, we've covered a lot of ground since we started. We swapped the original 2l air cooled out for a 2l Subaru impreza. Sadly, in Baja, we made a bad route choice and trashed our engine and the replacement we bought and fitted was bad from Day one. It got us as far as Panama, before it threw a rod. We bought another second hand engine and thankfully this one has mainly coped incredibly well. Although, on this route actually, the air intake hose fell off, which meant we ended up rebuilding the top half, as we started burning through a heck of a lot of oil.