As spring rears it most welcome little head again, many of us will be planning our summer holidays. Like lots of Britons, you might be getting your European breakdown cover in order and preparing to zoom off to the continent. And while the prospect of driving in mainland Europe might fill you with a nagging sense of foreboding, the truth is that our neighbours keep their roads in pretty good condition. If you really want to see a road in a bad way, you have to go a little bit further.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Moscow-Yakutsk road, or should I say dirt track; this is a most perilous road and makes our little pot-holed roads look like a picnic. Then there’s the road in Nepal that winds from Katmandu towards the mighty Everest – that’s got the better of quite a few unwitting or just plain unlucky drivers over the years.
But perhaps the most daunting place to take a family driving holiday is the road that connects the Bolivian capital La Paz to the high Andes region known as Yungas. The kids would be complaining about a lot more than simply car sickness if you took them up this highway. Way back in 1995, the Inter American Development Bank termed it ‘the most dangerous road in the world’ – and to be honest, that might be talking it up a bit.
So the next time you’re being screamed at by some Italian in the mean streets of Rome, or being tailgated by a pushy French person around the Arc de Triomphe, just think yourself lucky that you’re not hundreds of feet up in the Andes, where Bolivian road rage is a truly terrifying experience. Even comprehensive European breakdown cover from startrescue.co.uk wouldn’t be able to get you out of that one.
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