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by **Ahmed Basha** Mon 26 May - 5:00

North
Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for
motorists. If the previous road is just impassable, this one clearly
endangers your life. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz
to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of
extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses. A
fatal accident happens there every couple of weeks, 100-200 people
perish there every year. In 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank
named the La Paz-to-Coroico route "the world's most dangerous road."

Among the route there are many visible reminders of accidents,
wreckages of lorries and trucks lie scattered around at the bottom...

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The
buses and heavy trucks navigate this road, as this is the only route
available in the area. Buses crowded with locals go in any weather, and
try to beat the incoming traffic to the curves. It does not help that
the fog and vapors rise up from the heavily vegetated valley below,
resulting in almost constant fogs and limited visibility. Plus the
tropical downpours cause parts of the road to slide down the mountain.

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