Thanks, bigpeeler.

No 'Road of Bones' ?

And I thought driving I-65 at night through Indiana was a mutha.

*WHIMPER*

People who are afraid of driving in New York should be glad they aren't in Bolivia.

Cripes... I will never visit that country. Never at all.

Man, thats the kind of road you see in movies

Crap without more pictures. Been on plenty of third-world roads as bad as the ones in those photos.

The History Channel had a special on the Bolvian Death Road just last week.

It's estimated that there are 20 deaths for every mile of that road.

*Bolivian

I got scared just reading that.

TTIUWP

If the movies have taught me anything then traveling on that kind of road leads to being face down in Kathleen Turner's crotch...and have you seen her lately?

Anyone here ever drive to Hana?

/shiats self thinking about 50 miles of that, with people passing in both directions

What's at the end of this road that makes people want to go there?

Pffft, Bolivians should try driving on 495 in DC during rush hour.

Even if they survive the traffic it's still 50/50 the bullets get 'em.

"Further down the road we passed a spot where a set of fresh tyre tracks headed out into the void"

I don't get it. What's a 'tyre'?

I saw that on the Discovery Channel or something.
I so want to drive on that in my Suzuki Samurai

Courtney Love's driveway?

What's at the end of this road that makes people want to go there?

La Paz, one of the highest inhabited cities on earth. Used to be you had to take high altitude llamas to get there.

I think it's this same road in Bolivia. Known as the Road of Death. I have more pics.



/shivers

"A gigantic vertical crack appears."

So, Courtney Love sunbathes nude along that road? No wonder people drive off the cliff...

The history channels documentary on the road said that they made the road one way so that people would not have to worry about oncoming traffic.

Beer and coca leaves? Sound like a recipe for safe driving to me...

Wasn't this posted a few weeks ago?

I thought so.

Damn you, RockIsDead...get out of my head.

60% of the dead were coked up. The other 40% were taking a family vacation. "Mommmm... Tell Diego to MOVE!!! He keeps touching me." "Daaaaaad. When are we gonna get to Lake Titicaca?"

Drivers stop to pour libations of beer into the earth - to beseech the goddess Pachamama for safe passage.

Maybe the rate of accidents has something to do with what happens to the rest of the beer.

i bet if you live around there and drive it all the time it's no big deal.

60% of the dead were coked up.

Chewing coca leaves is the equivalent of drinking coffee. Leaves are to Cocaine is as if you took coffee, dried it out and concentrated it 100x.

Well i cant get the html link to work so..

http://www.trekker.co.il/bolivia/b-death-04.jpg

pretty cool picture of a large truck on the one way edge of the road

Many of them perished in the effort. Now it is mainly Bolivians who die on the road - in their thousands.

in thier thousands?

What's at the end of this road that makes people want to go there?

La Paz, one of the highest inhabited cities on earth. Used to be you had to take high altitude llamas to get there.

The road starts in La Paz and goes up to somewhere, that somewhere is what I was wondering about.

Sounds like they need some General Ackbar road signs. Anyone care to PS up one or two?

good ole flopp

-I bet most of the bones at the bottom of that chasm were people who lived around there and drove it all the time...

Chewing coca leaves is the equivalent of drinking coffee.

Not even close.

I want to go there!

burned_biscuit: I saw that on the Discovery Channel or something.
I so want to drive on that in my Suzuki Samurai

You could probably try it once.

RaoulDuke: Anyone here ever drive to Hana?

I did. Last month. It was a lot of fun to be honest.

try this one after a few beers.

Looks like the easy stretches of Black Bear Pass

RagnarD: Not even close.

Chewing the leaves won't drug you up but it will give you some decent effects. Perhaps you should read a little bit on it:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/coca/coca.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_leaves

/I'll walk guys !!

that was a very well written article.
oh, it was the bbc...ok. duh.

anyway, when i was a kid, my family went camping and we drove up a road a lot like that, and we had to turn around at one point. thought we were all gonna die.

No joke.

RaoulDuke: Anyone here ever drive to Hana?


Was just going to say, I thought Hana was bad... Wow.

/football time!

cocidicer Many of them perished in the effort. Now it is mainly Bolivians who die on the road - in their thousands.

in thier [sic] thousands?

Why yes.... from the article we learn that the road was built 70 years ago by Paraguayan POWs, and that it is estimated 2-300 Bolivians die annualy using it. Let's take the lower estimate to be on the conservative side.

70 x 200 = no... on second thoughts you do the maths.

/pretty scary road!

Another scary tidbit:

Bus drivers on that road can average up to 20 hours a day driving.

Chewing coca can only do so much...

and I thought it was bad, the road out near my farm called Blood Alley. Am afraid to see the nicknames for THOSE roads...