Worlds Most Dangerous Road

[SCRIBR]

If it was in Vic it would still have "safety" cameras all over it

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[Bain]

The Amalfi coast in Italy is like that..

Except they have houses where you open the door straight onto the road aswell.

A 30km trip takes 2.5 hours in a bus.. (My partner and I did this)

[ducatijb]

Looks a bit like the road up to Baggio in the Philippines

[Damo]

I got this a couple of days ago in an email. Here's what came with it (dunno if it's accurate or not)

The road is located in the South American country of Bolivia.

It consists of 43 miles (70 km) of dirt and rock heading north from La Paz, the world's highest capitol (altitude 12,000 feet or 3,660 m), to Coroico, a beautiful cloud forest town at the rim of the Amazon basin. Its catchy nickname is due to the 26 vehicles that fall off the road per year. About 200 people annually lose their lives here.

A fatal accident every fortnight is not uncommon on the Coroico road (the July disaster brought the death toll during the previous eight months to 55) and in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank declared this, the world's most dangerous road.

The only road that exists to get to the Amazon from La Paz, it is carved into the sides of a canyon. It can have vertical drops for 1,600 feet and has no guardrails.

Consequently, most Bolivians take the time to pray before their descent. After all, it could be their last

[replicant]

I got this a couple of days ago in an email. Here's what came with it (dunno if it's accurate or not)

The road is located in the South American country of Bolivia.

It consists of 43 miles (70 km) of dirt and rock heading north from La Paz, the world's highest capitol (altitude 12,000 feet or 3,660 m), to Coroico, a beautiful cloud forest town at the rim of the Amazon basin. Its catchy nickname is due to the 26 vehicles that fall off the road per year. About 200 people annually lose their lives here.

A fatal accident every fortnight is not uncommon on the Coroico road (the July disaster brought the death toll during the previous eight months to 55) and in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank declared this, the world's most dangerous road.

The only road that exists to get to the Amazon from La Paz, it is carved into the sides of a canyon. It can have vertical drops for 1,600 feet and has no guardrails.

Consequently, most Bolivians take the time to pray before their descent. After all, it could be their last

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Knew that road looked kinda familiar... that's part of the route between La Paz and Cusco - that's a mountain gorge road, unsealed but worst still the bus drivers work by the hour and chew on coca leaves (no not cocoa, the stuff Coke was originally inclusive of) to keep awake so they can work as many hours as they can... so they are sleep deprived and off their tits... and driving the most dangerous road in the world... you can take a trip to Lake Titicaca from this route too.

Kinda makes you think about whether there is a higher presence...

[RHR]

And we pay out our road's... Those in the pics are bloody sketchy