Simon Seeks has compiled a list of the most dangerous roads in the world. Many feature rock slide hazards, hair pin turns, steep cliffs and no guard rails. Still, it's amazing just how beautiful some of these deadly roads are --often because the views from these places are unbelievable.
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One of my favourite roads is the Healey Pass in Ireland it's got hairpin bends, potential for rock slides and stretches with more gaurd rails, but it terms of accidents per vehicle mile it's a lot less dangerous than many other roads in the same area.
...Mind you I come from the Netherlands where the highest elevations are the bridges over our waterways and the wole rest is about as flat as where they play icehockey....
Sitting in a windowseat in the back of the bus, I was actually hanging over the ravine in each right turn. Busses and trucks could only pass eachother in the turns, water from the moutains was flooding the road. I was really scared. I took a plane back to La Paz.