

Yungas Road in the Andes Mountain of Bolivia is known by a couple names, the most memorable being The World's Most Dangerous Road or Death Road for short.
The road earned those nicknames because it has more deaths per mile than any other road in the world. |
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Each year, AT LEAST 25 vehicles fall off the road. There are NO guardrails. And though it's supposed to be two-way, the road is, for most part, barely wide enough for a single car.
Despite these facts, Yungas Road isn't paved in bones or anything. The human skulls are in the unseen jungle valley at the bottom of the 1500 ft vertical plummet off the edge.
Bike rides down the road are "highly recommended" for extreme mountain biking enthusiasts with a death wish.

- link:// Travel Bolivia





















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11.24.08
By Michele
Why don't they just put up siderails?
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1.14.11
By megan
I love the Andes and the Yungas Road is on my to-do list. I'm for mountain biking it though; nothing could entice me to get on a bus to make that trip...........I've driven with crazy bus drivers in Switzerland, Italy, Peru and Mexico, all of which were really gut-wrenching. I'll pass on this one, but I hope I get to ride it!
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