A 5,000m-above- sea-level road built by Paraguayan prisoners during 1930s' war on Andes mountains connecting Bolivia's main city, La Paz, to the Yungas region was dubbed as the world's most dangerous road. EEvery year it is estimated 200 to 300 people die on a stretch of road less than 50 miles long. In one year alone, 25 vehicles plunged off the road and into the ravine. That is one every two weeks.Link to BBC report & the photo gallery via Neatorama
The bird's eye view is on the left, on the front seat passenger's side, where the Earth itself seems to open up.
A gigantic vertical crack appears. Way below, more than half a mile beneath your passenger window, you can see - cradled between canyon walls - a thin silver thread: the Coroico River rushing to join the Amazon.
On the driver's side there is a sheer rock wall rising to the heavens. There is no margin of error. The road itself is barely three metres wide. That is if you can call it a road.
After the initial stretch to the top of the mountain it is just dirt track. And yet - incredibly - it is a major route for trucks and buses.
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