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With some roads being so challenging, travelers should check the authenticity and condition of their vehicles before setting off. They should even consider purchasing life insurance in addition to their travel insurance plans.
Connecting the East and West Coasts from Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 is a vital artery that has become a legendary image in American poetry. Route 66 deserves to be ranked among the most famous roads in the world, alongside the Champs-Élysées in Paris - which will certainly be the center of attention when France hosts the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Great Ocean Road - a 240km route along the southeastern coast of Australia - is also well known for its stunning scenery. There is also a famous road called The Silk Road, although today this journey is no longer maintained as it was originally. Mentioning this legendary road will remind people of the legendary stories between ancient Chinese and Western civilizations, through a network of trade routes used by merchants to trade a variety of goods such as carpets, glassware and gold.
The country that holds the record for the longest straight road is Saudi Arabia. Highway 10 cuts through the country, originally built as a royal road, creating a straight road that is 256km long.
The previous record was held by the Eyre Highway, which connects Western Australia and South Australia and cuts across the Nullarbor Plain. The 146km stretch of road is free of curves and rarely requires steering. However, caution is still required when driving on this road, as there have been collisions involving cars, camels and kangaroos due to carelessness on the part of drivers.
In contrast to straight highways, Lombard Street in San Francisco (USA) is famous for its series of sharp turns in a stretch of only about 400m long, so it is also called "the most crooked street in the world". Today, Lombard Street is a famous place for curious tourists - who are willing to wait up to 20 minutes to travel the entire 1-lane road, built on a 27% slope. Even if you walk, you will travel this road faster than by car. The crowdedness, many tourists crossing the road and the curves make drivers often only drive at a speed of about 8km/h on Lombard Street.
According to Guinness World Records, the longest continuous road in the world is the Pan-American Highway, which connects Fairbanks, Alaska, and Santiago, Chile. The Guinness website claims the route is approximately 15,000 miles (24,140 km) long. However, some sources claim that the road could start in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and end in Ushuaia, Argentina, making it a distance of up to 30,000 miles (48,000 km).
However, it is argued that the Pan-American is not a single road, but rather a network of roads. Furthermore, the route is interrupted in the Darién Gap, a region of mountains, swamps and jungles between Panama and Colombia. There are trails here, but they are not considered public roads, and people usually choose to fly or sail through it rather than drive through it.
The world’s shortest road network can be found on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. Renovated in 2017, the entire road network on Tuvalu stretches 15.5km (from Causeway Bay to Kennedy Town and back). With an average elevation of just 2m above sea level, some of Tuvalu’s islands are unlikely to survive for long. During high tides and severe storms, waves wash over roads, uproot trees and pollute freshwater sources. With two of Tuvalu’s nine islands at risk of sinking, many residents have migrated to New Zealand.
There are many contenders for the title of “World’s Most Dangerous Road.” In terms of accidents, it’s Bolivia’s El Camino de la Muerte, which claimed the lives of between 200 and 300 people a year until the government decided to build a bypass.
Morocco's Tizi n' Test Road is not for the faint-hearted. The website Dangerousroads.org describes the road with scary warnings such as "not recommended after dark", "no markings", "many curves and steep slopes".
Equally dangerous are the Himalayan roads of northern India and Pakistan, often single-lane roads with cliffs on one side and deep ravines on the other, with no safety barriers. The phrase “Rohtang,” meaning “heap of corpses” in the local language, is used to name a pass on this route.
The Dead Sea Highway is the lowest road in the world: 393m below sea level. It is also the longest road in Israel, running along the Dead Sea - famous for being the saltiest lake in the world. The official name of this road is Highway 90, following the Via Maris trade route connecting ancient Egypt with Syria and Mesopotamia. This route takes visitors to many interesting tourist destinations, not only the Dead Sea but also the Masada fortress or the Ein Gedi nature reserve. Visitors should come here between October and March of the following year, avoiding summer heat waves that can affect health as well as transportation.
Khardung Pass, located at 5,359 m in the Ladakh region of India, was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest road a few years ago. Other less popular, unpaved roads, which are only accessible to military vehicles and mountain bikers, include the Uturuncu Mountain Road in Bolivia, located at 5,768 m. Or the Umling Pass in Ladakh, at 5,798 m, which is recognized as the world's highest motorable road, but is only open for a few months of the year due to heavy snowfall the rest of the time.
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