Would You Drive A TVR Chimaera Down Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’?

This is the second installment in the journey, which will see this TVR Chimaera go through South America to the South Pole. Read part 1 here.

When we last left the continent-trotting TVR Chimaera it had been dropped off at a Land Rover shop for some repairs and maintenance. Shortly after inspecting it, and with our fevers on the mend, Ben Coombs and I hopped back in and got on the road again, leaving Lima to head further down the Peruvian coastline. We had 400km ahead of us before we’d reach Nazca, and along the way we passed by a few straggling Dakar participants. After six hours or so of driving, we arrived in town just as the last half-hour of sunlight was on its way out. This is of course the site of the famous Nazca Lines, the massive drawings in the desert here, and there’s a nice four-story viewpoint available to tourists, but from this height only a few of the smaller and medium-sized designs are able to be kept in the frame; the larger ones would require height nearly some kind of upper “-sphere” I’m sure. In all, these pre-Colombian artifacts make up 300 distinct drawings, believed to have been created by the Nazca culture that lived here. Or aliens, if that’s your persuasion.

Read the full article at: https://petrolicious.com/articles/would-you-drive-a-tvr-chimaera-down-bolivias-death-road

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