Most car journeys these days seem to involve some kind of traffic jam, road work, or random hazard that slows you down, but it could be worse……….much worse. How about edging along a mountain pass with another car coming towards you, where one wrong move could end in disaster. That’s the reality faced in one area of the world, where the only option to get from point A to point B is to take your life in your hands. Often regarded as the most dangerous road in the world, the North Yungas Road connects Northern Bolivia to the Amazon Rainforest region through 40 miles of twisting road. Built by Paraguayan prisoners in the 1930s, it has become known as El Camino de la Muerte — “Death Road” — by locals because of the high number of fatalities on the road each year. The twisting path is only 10 feet wide and has traffic coming from both directions. There are many blind corners and sharp turns with hardly any barriers or guardrails. In some places, waterfalls splash down onto the road surface, making navigation even trickier. So, if you ever find yourself on the North Yungas Road, the only advice for such a scary ride is to strap in!
