Most Dangerous Roads
Take a gander at these photos of five roads deemed the most dangerous in the world.
Update: I should note that that page's author doesn't really describe how the list was compiled. As far as I know, it's really just a list of roads with photos that make them look really hairy.
posted by Adam Villani @ 1/30/2007 09:27:00 PM
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Taroko Gorge is wonderful and reasonably safe to visit. The national park should be designated a World Heritage Site. Recommended.
Those tunnels-carved-from-mountainsides look really cool. The Siberian road, however, exactly matches all the descriptions of roads during the Russian muddy season I've read in histories of World War II. Imagine you're a German armored commander trying to get your tanks down one of those things...
You can drive through a tunnel-with-windows like that in Zion National Park in Utah. It's the through route through the park. It's pretty amazing, but it was built to much better standards and is much safer-looking than the roads you see on the list.
Also note that in the Bolivia photos, the vehicles are all left-hand drive, yet drive on the left side of the road. The convention as to which side of the road you drive on flips there; in the cities, you drive on the right, but in the mountains, you drive on the left.
From the photos, I expect the reasons are obvious.
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