The World’s Most Dangerous Roads

A dri­ve through a scenic place is always a thrilling expe­ri­ence but some­times this is not always the case. Dri­ving on some roads around the world is an adven­ture that only the bravest of souls should try. Here are the top 15 most cra­zi­est roads in the world that will like­ly make you book a flight instead!

1. Guoliang Tunnel Road, China

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Keep your eyes on the road, avoid any mis­takes else you will tum­ble to your death. Yes the Guo­liang 1200 meters long tun­nel road locat­ed in the Tai­hana Moun­tains in Hunan Province, Chi­na, does not tol­er­ate any mis­takes. Scared already? Unfor­tu­nate­ly if you want to go to Guo Liang Cun by road you will have to take this road as it is the only road going to the vil­lage.

2. Ice Road, Northwest Territories, Canada

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You will lose track of time as you dri­ve through the beau­ti­ful end­less ice roads in North­west Ter­ri­to­ries in Cana­da. Though stun­ning and mind-blow­ing, cau­tion is advised when dri­ving through the blue ice as the roads can be very slip­pery.

3. Stelvio Pass, Italy

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This is one of the high­est paved roads in the world stand­ing at 9,045 feet up and locat­ed in the East­ern Ital­ian Alps. As you dri­ve through Stelvio Pass you will go through 48 bends stretch­ing over a 15-mile dis­tance through a moun­tain pass.

4. Sichuan-Tibet Highway – China

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The Sichuan-Tibet high­way is great­ly affect­ed by avalanch­es, rock slides and a series of bad weath­er that results in 7500 deaths per 100,000 dri­vers mak­ing it one of the most dan­ger­ous roads in the world.

5. Sani Pass, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Sani Pass con­nects Kwazu­lu-Natal and Lesotho. Now this is a road that you should not attempt to take if you are not dri­ving a 4x4 car because it has steep slopes with very poor trac­tion. You can actu­al­ly see remains of cars that unfor­tu­nate­ly could not suc­ceed ascend­ing the pass.

6. Lena Highway aka Highway from Hell, Russia

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Ever seen an unpaved high­way? You bet­ter brace your­self to trek through the hard­est fed­er­al high­way ever. The Russ­ian Fed­er­al High­way con­nects Moscow to Yakut­sk, and turns com­plete­ly into mud when­ev­er it rains. Not only will you have to endure the mud but also the cold­est tem­per­a­ture ever record­ed out­side Antarc­ti­ca. Dur­ing dry sea­sons the road easy to nav­i­gate as it is frozen due to the extreme­ly low tem­per­a­tures.

7. Old Chalus Road, Iran

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This is one of Iran’s most beau­ti­ful roads that con­nects Chalus city through the Alborz Moun­tains. The crazi­ness sets in dur­ing win­ter when avalanch­es and heavy snow­falls are com­mon mak­ing the nor­mal­ly nar­row and moun­tain­ous ter­rain more dif­fi­cult to nav­i­gate.

8. Paso Internacional Los Libertadores, Argentina/Chile

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The Paso Inter­na­cional Los Lib­er­ta­dores con­nects Argenti­na and Chile and is pop­u­lar for its hair rais­ing twists and turns as one descends on the Chilean side that needs a lot of cau­tion to pre­vent a dan­ger­ous fall.

9. Federal Highway 101 aka Highway of Death, Mexico

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Also referred to as the Devil’s Road, the high­way is noto­ri­ous for high­way rob­beries and mur­ders. The US Con­sulate Gen­er­al in Mata­moros is report­ed to have issued warn­ings against trav­el­ing on the high­way. Yes it is that dan­ger­ous!

10. Atlanterhavsveien aka The Atlantic Road to Nowhere, Norway

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This road is both breath­tak­ing and hair rais­ing. Can you imag­ine being hit by a wave from the infa­mous Atlantic Ocean as you dri­ve by? The bridge known as “Stor­seisun­det Bridge” is one of the most scenic roads in the Nor­way and even though it is gen­er­al­ly safe it can get quite nasty when the ocean gets vio­lent and a dri­ve at such a time is not for the faint heart­ed.

11. Fairy Meadows Road, Pakistan

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Fairy Mead­ows Road is one of the most dan­ger­ous roads in the world. It is a nar­row high moun­tain trail with no guardrails to pro­tect you should you miss your step. You are lit­er­al­ly on your own! The oth­er scary part is that the road gets nar­row­er as you get towards the end and you can­not dri­ve at this sec­tion, you can only walk or cycle.

12. Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand

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This road is so nar­row and dan­ger­ous that you can­not use it unless you have a spe­cial per­mit. Most dri­vers find them­selves stuck when they run into anoth­er dri­ver com­ing from the oth­er direc­tion because the road is too nar­row for two cars to pass at the same time.

13. Passo San Boldo, Italy

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This is anoth­er crazy Ital­ian road at an ele­va­tion of 2,316 ft. in the north­ern parts of the Ital­ian Alps. The most thrilling sec­tion of the road is a 700m stretch that has 7 adren­a­line-pump­ing hair­pin turns that not just any­one can han­dle them.

14. Luxor-al-Hurghada Road, Egypt

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The Lux­or-al-Hurgha­da Road does not just have a dif­fi­cult ter­rain but as well as ban­dits that make it a dan­ger­ous road to be stuck in espe­cial­ly at night.

15. Gorges de Galamus, France

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Gorges de Gala­mus locat­ed in France has two extreme­ly nar­row and dan­ger­ous roads that are quite a chal­lenge to nav­i­gate. Once you are on the two roads you can­not turn back because they are just too nar­row.