https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/skC8u4Ok0Kg?rel=0
Feck me! :o :o :o. That is one narrow road and one hell of a drop. Not for me I'm afraid.
The guy commentating was remarkably self-possessed. I'd have been gibbering in a corner. :o :o :o :o :o
Reminds me of an organised trip on Crete from Agios Nikolaos to the Gorge of Samaria many years ago. My ex and I were sitting in the middle of the coach. Several times on the last leg of the journey we realised that, while the road was under the front and back wheels, all there was below our part of the bus was the drop to the bottom of the slope! Was glad that once we'd walked the gorge we were ferried by boat back to the coaches at the foot of the mountain.
Couldn't watch. Palms of hands started sweating. :o
Ohhhhyeah! Love it!
Must admit it did make feel a little queasy
I'm not sure I could *walk* that, let alone sit in a bus that's so close and being driven by someone else. That's some feat of road building there :o And driving :o
Cool, especially with the water falling down, so the road gets slippery AND you don't see where you're going...
And imagine; it's the road to a basecamp... wonder what the roads are like from there on... :(
Cheers,
Rob
I'd be getting out and walking, simple as that! I don't mind the heights or the drop, but I couldn't sit there hoping that the driver wouldn't tip us over.
I remember watching an episode of 'Ice Road Truckers' where they sent them to Bolivia to drive the Road of Death, it's crazy how they still have to pass other vehicles on that small strip of road.
(http://www.tamerlanebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/North-Yungas-2.jpg)
That is not a two lane road. Hell, it's not a one lane road :'( :o
I think it is what you are used to. My honeymoon in the 90's was in the Pyranees in French Catalonia, a place called Pratts de Mollo. Road systems on the Spanish side were either ultra modern or almost medieval. When we arrived I felt a bit uneasy driving on normal roads with drops like on the film to one side. It always focuses the attention when you notice you are on a road higher than the clouds. :) But after a few days you get used to it.
Our host who was a retired RAF mountain rescue bod insisted on taking us in his Landrover on a trip from France to Spain through the mountains along an old trading route he had discovered and it looked very similar to that road on your film. There were two things that really made me uneasy, 1. he was too relaxed and didnt see any danger, 2. every so often we came to a section that had been carried away in a land-slide and rebuilt with loose rocks back into a road. He did slow down for them but I felt decididly uneasy going over these sections.
Cheers, Rob :)