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22 Comments:
Good place for a motorbike ride.
I have been to the one in Taiwan. That is a really beautiful place. I remember there was some water falling from the mountain and into one of the tunnels. The views from the mountains were amazing, and there was this temple on top of a cliff. Like Mastercard would say "Priceless"
Pretty awesome.
The one in Vicenza, Italy is indeed only an hiking trail. No "small italian car"
never ever drove on that. The road for trucks carring supplies for the guesthouse runs on the other side of the mountains, on the former austrian side of the Alps...
A guy from Vicenza
When I was 15 years old, I travelled on the Taroko Gorge road, on a flat-bed truck, on top of a load of cargo, at about 3:00 am on the night of a full moon. I was both enthralled and petrified. There also used to be some unbelievably scary hiking trails around there -- rickety suspension bridges over impossibly deep gorges, bamboo ladders, etc...
Thanks for making this available for people like me :) I would have never known...
I loved the road that the villagers carved out of the mountain - wow!
Makes me want to drop the drudgery I do for a living and get out there...
Definitely seen the Vincenza one. It would be impossible to drive on.
after seeing this road i think the one going to the Amalfi coast is not all that bad , still hair raising don't know if i want to repeat the experience.
do you came to south america lately in peru o bolivia
The bolivian one is getting more and more famous every year, it has now featured in more than 5 tv programes, from Canada, to US, Uk, to NZ ... we guide mountain bike rides down it regularly, and actually its not that dangerous, but it certainly is spectacular. For more information check us out on www.gravitybolivia.com, I've personally guided more than 500 bike trips down the road!
A travel brochure for masochists.
"10 most dangerous roads in the world":
All I have to say is, I've got 10 more things I have to do in life before I die!
Try the roads around Huaraz and in particular between Huaraz and Trujillo in nothern Peru. Anything from 3,000-4,500m up and carved through rocks. Awesome but terrifying.
Add Israel to that. More specifically Jerusalem. More specifically going through the Arab neighborhoods. Talk about suicidal. No traffic laws, no respect for other road users, and the occasional rock throwing. But that doesn't keep me from getting my fix every morning.
just take some small french roads, and it'll do just the same...
no kidding, it's very impressive
In the United States i drove a scary mountain road in 1998. It lead up to a town called Little Detroit in Oregon.
The road was a single lane and you had to meet bigger vehicles at the turnoffs in order to pass by them. It wasn't as bad as most of these since it was mostly paved and was only 20-25 miles long. But the entire way was one side mountain, other side you plummet 400-500 feet with just enough room in the one lane for two compacts to squeeze by.
When we got to the top, my fellow travelers went their separate ways and I had to drive back down alone the next day. it was only at the end that i noticed i had been driving my econoline on a temp spare tire. Not very smart.
thank's God I live in a country that having big - big - big highway roads..!!
i agree with alessandro. the Pasubio road was built ( built? sorry for my terrible english) during the first world war. and I had problem to avoid rocks with my head. ciao
The one in italy we use to call mount ozziano... I don't know if thats what its called. Theres no way cars could make it. Not even the little ones we called chinquechentos. I hiked all the way up to the "tourist shop" at the top, and was exausted as I was only 15 and just started smoking lol. Needless to say I was relieved to find the strait shot service road on the oposite side. Man it was fun throwing boulders down into the clouds and imagining people being crushed below LMAO!!
I still have a chunk of stalagtite I kicked off one of the floors up there.
~Army Brat~
Really amazing astinishing informations, without actually visiting these places u can relish the hair raising experiences of these roads
There are some tunnels like in Italy here in Slovenia. World War 1 front n'stuff.
And also World War 2 resistance tunnels...
You have to be impressed with the determination of the Chinese in #1, to carve that tunnel out of rock with just simple hand tools!
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