The most scary road in the road

Stremnaya road is called the road of death and its situated in Bolivia
just the look of it can scare anyone
Bolivia's Yungas Road is officially the most hazardous on earth. Local people pray before using it and the nearest hospital is a two-hour drive away. But none of this deters foreign tourists from biking over its bumps at 40mph. And, as Michael Liebreich discovered, cheap thrills in risky environments can come at a price.

You can't walk 100 yards down the main street of any travellers' town on this lonely planet without being offered a selection of adrenalin-enhanced adventures. A river nearby? We provide inner tubes. Mountains? Touch your own personal void. Now I'm all for getting the heart racing on holiday but my opinion of what is an appropriate adventure activity and of what constitutes an acceptable riskchanged dramatically one day last summer.









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The most dangerous road in the world

In the South American country of Bolivia.


It consists of 70 km of dirt and rock heading north from La Paz, the
world's highest capitol (altitude 3,660 metres), 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 500 metres and
Has no guardrails.

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