Top 5 Most Dangerous Roads in the World (56k No)
19 June 2007, 03:31 PM
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Top 5 Most Dangerous Roads in the World (56k No)
#1: “Road of Death” - Bolivia
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for
motorists. This one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the
Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost
3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and
800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every
couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the
Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the
world’s most dangerous road.”
#2: Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China)
The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 “windows” of
different
sizes and shapes. Some windows are round and some are square, and they
range from dozens of metres long to standard-window-size. It is
frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks hanging
form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying below.
A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.
#3: Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail (China)
(already reported here)
This is a heavy-tourist traffic area in Xian (Mt.Huashan). See details here.
#4: Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk
The official federal-government highway to Yakutsk, and it is also
the only one to get there. This can turn into a major humanitarian
disaster during rainy spells, when the usual clay covering of the road
turns into impassable mud blanket, swallowing trucks and tractors alike.
The same road in winter:
#5: Taroko Gorge Road in Taiwan
Another road with tunnels carved in the mountain rock
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for
motorists. This one clearly endangers your life. It runs in the
Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost
3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and
800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every
couple of weeks, 100-200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the
Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route “the
world’s most dangerous road.”
#2: Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang mountains (China)
The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 “windows” of
different
sizes and shapes. Some windows are round and some are square, and they
range from dozens of metres long to standard-window-size. It is
frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks hanging
form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying below.
A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.
#3: Most Dangerous Tourist Hiking Trail (China)
(already reported here)
This is a heavy-tourist traffic area in Xian (Mt.Huashan). See details here.
#4: Russian Siberian Road to Yakutsk
The official federal-government highway to Yakutsk, and it is also
the only one to get there. This can turn into a major humanitarian
disaster during rainy spells, when the usual clay covering of the road
turns into impassable mud blanket, swallowing trucks and tractors alike.
The same road in winter:
#5: Taroko Gorge Road in Taiwan
Another road with tunnels carved in the mountain rock
19 June 2007, 04:23 PM
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As a Russian, I feel it is my duty to point out that the Russian Road is not dangerous, but simply CRAP/NON Existent! In case anyone wants to try mud wrestling with Mikhail Gorbachev!!!
. . . . But the Chinese road looks seriously cool!!!
. . . . But the Chinese road looks seriously cool!!!
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As I have mentioned before... my dad used to drive the Bolivian road with trucks full of tourists visiting all of the old south american/mexican cities.
I am still trying to find some pictures just to prove it, but am struggling
He said it was an absolute blast driving that road.... very dangerous but exciting..
He told me yesterday of one time when he saw a mudslide come down across the road - he couldnt turn around - so has to take the truck into four wheel drive mode and cross the road at about 30 degrees!
I am still trying to find some pictures just to prove it, but am struggling
He said it was an absolute blast driving that road.... very dangerous but exciting..
He told me yesterday of one time when he saw a mudslide come down across the road - he couldnt turn around - so has to take the truck into four wheel drive mode and cross the road at about 30 degrees!
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The Guoliang tunnel looks fantastic.. some great photo opportunities there I guess. As for that hiking trail well that just looks mental!! Wouldn't fancy taking a dump in those crappers either!
20 June 2007, 12:01 AM
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very dodgy
I've been on the Karakoram Highway when i was a kid, and that goes from in the lower land, 2 lanes wide to the mountains, where its the same as that Bolivian one.
The rule of the road, if you're bigger you have right of way, very scary especially if your vehicles steering has just been repaired with bailing string and wooden pegs
very dodgyI've been on the Karakoram Highway when i was a kid, and that goes from in the lower land, 2 lanes wide to the mountains, where its the same as that Bolivian one.
The rule of the road, if you're bigger you have right of way, very scary especially if your vehicles steering has just been repaired with bailing string and wooden pegs
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