Delete comment from: Dark Roasted Blend
The photos of the Grimsel Pass brought back memories of hiking this road back in the 1970s, oddly nobody was willing to stop and offer me a ride!
Croatia’s mountain roads are great fun for sports car drivers but for shear driving fun it would be hard to beat the road across northern Albania’s mountains to the Kosovo border. About 150km of constant curves, hairpins and hills with small villages including one called Puke! The road is paved but there are rough breaks. Some curves have guard rails but a low stone wall or nothing at all is more common.
As a plain bad road I would nominate the main road through Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. 200km of badly corrugated gravel which is hellish to drive on at any reasonable speed. Either you drive at 20 km/h and take all day or at over 80 km/h, skim from rut to rut, and hope you don’t need to avoid an antelope or on-coming bus.
Finally: I haven’t seen South Africa’s Sani Pass Road mentioned yet. Not as long as the Friendship Highway but narrower and more difficult than the Gates of Hell section below Nyalam just north of the Nepal border.
Feb 17, 2010, 7:36:44 PM
Posted to Dangerous Roads of the World, Part 4