I have zero desire to travel any of these roads... absolutely terrifying. The tunnel through the cliffs particularly. Absolute madness...great film making!!!
if these are scary, don't even think about the pinnacle of road fear and jitters: Bovaird Dr and other major roads in Brampton, Ontario...BUCKLE UP BRAMPTAROOS!
I can't tell you how nice it is to still have a few channels to feature living human narrators! I'm so sick of the bots and fake people that I have been known to simply switch off when I hear them no matter how interesting the topic is. Thank you for another great video!
I am more impressed with the engineering prowess it took to build these roads. I will never consider myself a risk taker again after viewing this video.
As per my opinion, the worst of all those roads is the one in Pakistan. Not only is it in a very bad condition but drivers even meet sheep herds. 🙄 China's roads are very dangerous too. The one in Italy has very sharp turns. Last but not least, those ones which are very remote from civilization are very dangerous too. I don't think that I would ever drive those roads. 🤔
Who knowingly would travel these roads I'm still watching & wondering if a road I was on trying to get to the grand canyon in Arizona will be apart of this. We got lost & we encountered a 2 lane VERY narrow road with no railings. It was one of thee scariest moments of my life. My sister was driving & when she realized where we were she freaked & could no longer drive. My friend took over & it was just heart wrenching.
I joined a small group in 2007 to travel on both the Fairy Meadows road and the Karakoram Highway to China. Scary as help, but our drivers got us through, smiling all the way. At one stage, the Karakoram Highway was blocked by an avalanche, with traffic backed up on both sides, the drivers chatted away to each other and brewed tea in the middle of the road. The Government had a special team on hand to clea4 the avalanche. By noon the next day we were able to proceed. I live in Kenya, where our roads can be pretty bad, and I have driven on our worst ones. But nothing like these. Hats off to those incredble drivers. As for me... Never again. Once in a lifetime was quite enough!!
My hubby, our two older kids and I drove the Hana Highway in '06. It was an all day road trip and so fun.. Twists, turns and narrow, not much wider than one lane where getting two cars side by side was a challenge. It was a beautiful drive through rainforests with many little bridges and gorgeous waterfalls We learned by reading before we went that after you finally get to Hana many people will turn around and head back the way they came because the road degrades after you get past the town of Hana. However we were also warned ahead that even though the road does keep going and is drivable but it is best to have a more rugged type car/SUV. The road will get even narrower, rougher, not 100% paved and edge of cliff driving. Well we had rented an SUV ( and although we aren't normally adventurers ) on we went! Yep the Hana Highway changed after the town of Hana. They weren't lying. It turned into many dirt/gravelly road areas. It wasn't a nice little paved lane anymore. No longer beautiful lush rainforest. We were no longer in the forest...think edge of mountain cliff. The lane hugged the cliff so close we could touch it out our window in places. Out the other window, a drop to the ocean. Sharp turns along the cliff, normally very few guard rails and often looked like the road just stopped on a precipice that looked like if you kept going forward you would drive right over the edge and then fall to your death into the Pacific below! But it was a blind turn. ( I recognized one of those turns in the video) We would come to several signs in those situations that said to Honk to let a vehicle that may be coming the opposite way know you were just around the turn because it really was just one car width wide and you couldnt see around the turn. We crept along. Thankfully we only had one car we met coming from opposite direction. We had to back up on this harrowing cliff hugging road just to get to a spot that provided a few extra inches for us to scrunch over to let him pass us. Thankfully we didnt have to reverse back very far!! But that inside position was much better than the other car who looked like his tires were half on the road and half off the edge ( the ocean far below!) The road finally got better, wider and flatter and opened up ( and got safer) as it headed back into the interior of the island and away from the islands outer edge! It was a nerve racking journey along that part of the Hana Highway but worth it. Still beautiful sites to see after we traversed the scary part. Its a beautiful coastline. Breathtaking for sure. Maui is a beautiful place. Makes me cry for LeHaina and the Maui people. I pray they can hang onto their land and hopefully someday rebuild their homes and businesses. We had planned before the fire to go back in 2024 and take our 4 grandkids . I hope we still might be able to and help support their tourist business which so many depend on 🤞. Prayers for Maui and her wonderful friendly people 🙏
Thank you for sharing. I had the opportunity to go to the Big Island several years ago. It was incredible! Watching this, only half of the roads would keep me from traveling, Hana was not one of them. I too morn for the people of Maui, and of course Lahaina and its surrounding area. A hui hou.
Agree prayers for Maui people It was a beautiful place ‼️ My wife and I 31:24 31:24 drove the road to Hana . Unbelievable sights Stop in the middle of the road and picked bananas . Then we went swimming in the seven pools and watch local teenage boys dive into the pools from the bridge Wonderful day
Driving up Pikes Peak in Colorado freaked me out a little. Couple areas on Pikes Peak with no guardrail also dropped off 2,000+ ft. Some of these roads? No way for me...
I keep thinking of the guys who CONSTRUCTED these crazy roads! Those brave souls actually arrived at these frightening locations WITHOUT even any roads to begin with!! How the hell did they do THAT?!?😮
Apparently the Road to Hana has bumper to bumper traffic on it in tourist season so isn't exactly isolated. It also has food stands along it and Hana itself is a town. You need to turn around at Hana though since beyond that it gets rough and rental cars aren't insured beyond a certain point on the road.
I'm down for Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway and Stelvio Pass, Italy. Who's with me? I've done Hana highway so many times - very beautiful. For extra fun, when you get to Hana keep driving rather than turn around. It gets extra rugged, but it's an incredible experience.The road the Haleakala is stunning as well.
Yes Santorini used to be like that - - terrifying- now there’s a low road. I found Greece to be pretty crazy for terrifying driving and worse at night lit 🔥 by memorials in the exact place of their plunge. 😩
I've been there 3 times, my favorite place in the world , first time there were roads with no guardrails in some places but the roads were always wide enough for 2 cars . Last summer we stayed at imerovigli and going through there to our hotel there were quite a few roads where 2 cars didn't fit and you have to reverse to find more room ,sometimes on a steep road with a manual transmission . One gets used to eat eventually lol. As far as roads in this video ,the only one I would be scared to drive would be the first one shown in this video aside from being narrow the road Is prone to land slides and parts of the road being washed away sometimes . The trick I've found when going on narrow roads like that is to find a truck or a bus and get behind it Usually trucks and busses don't have to reverse too much to let others pass
The Dempster Highway is longer than the Dalton, and more isolated. And, you can actually drive on it to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. If the Dalton is scary, the Dempster is worse. A beautiful drive though!
The Dempster is an nice and well maintained gravel road long but easy to drive (if you have 4 spare tires). Try the Black Near Road in the San Juan mountains of Colorado. 😂😂😂😂
Was trying to find a word and the closest i came was AGORAPHOBIA to describe it but still not quite correct. I have no fear of an open space as such but when driving and suddenly coming out from a "closed" space with trees fields and houses to a sudden shift of wide open space in all directions produces a really weird sensation in me. Absolutely hate it, and don't know why and have never found a correct word to describe it, but that sea road in Norway produces exactly that kind of weird chilling feeling to the bone in me. Me NO like.
Thanks for making this piece. I never knew there were such crazy roads out there in the world. I knew about the Road to Hana but that's about it. I enjoyed it.
What about the two lane road from Sarajevo to Tuzla in Bosnia...I drove a tiny Škoda (In America it was called a Yugo) along mountainous icy roads that had nothing but deep cliffs to my right side...I drove it back and forth 5 times in 2004...once while listening on radio to the song "The Never Ending Story"...Every time I hear that song, I remember those trips...
DUIs r lethal in general, and driving under the influence of any mind alternating substance is a definite death wish on these mind blowing roads. Thanks for always giving us awesome documentaries.
One thing for certain, all of those countries never put safety first. Noticing, those that do have guard rails are not high enough nor reinforced enough to withstand any emergent pressures. The ongoing erosions of both land and roads due to the changing weather are never prevented by foreseeing and prevented. Yes, it takes excessive monies. Therefore, more economical to either chopper or a sizeable airplane (with ample sufficient surviving supplies) in and out. How narrow minded can anybody ever be?
I lived in the Big bend area of Texas and the river road or 170 which follows the Rio Grande river has a hill (the big hill) which is an illegal 18% grade and makes you think you are going to drive into a mountain but its amazing!
An 18% grade is NOT illegal. Federally funded highways are mandated to 6%, state highways and rural roads that are not fed funded can be any grade the state/county deems necessary. Hwy 170 is TxDOT funded.
Don't forget the "Seven-Mile Bridge" in the Florida Keys. You drive for seven whole miles on a low narrow two-lane road over the ocean. God forbid you should have any car-trouble out there over the sea.
What freaks me is when it's a very NARROW road and you come upon a car (or TRUCK) coming from the opposite direction. Now ONE of you has to volunteer to reverse back to the best (or least dangerous) spot to scrunch aside so the other car can pass. 😮
I’m surprised Highway 340, also known as the Kahekili Highway in NW Maui wasn’t on this list! I’d consider that road worse than the Hana Highway!! Very steep cliffs, blind corners and sometimes very wet roads from active waterfalls. Definitely not for the faint of heart, but a gorgeous drive!!
The startling hyperbole of the VO will leave you breathless wondering if this channel just cycles through the same dozen scripts with extreme tenacity for Every video, just incredibly resourcefully changing the name of the location.
We have driven part of the Hana Road😳🤦♀️ on Maui, many years ago. A mail man overtook us in his van when the roads are so narrow, our daughters felt car sick because of the twisting and turning of the roads, but we did it. We kept seeing folk on the island with tee shirts stating “I survived the Road To Hana” so we had to see what it was about. We even called our Border Collie puppy at the time, Hana after that car ride.
Every single road: hair-raising ✅ awe-inspiring ✅ remote, isolated ✅absence of guardrails ✅ terrifying ✅jaw-dropping ✅ utmost caution ✅ breath-taking ✅ steep and precipitous ✅ nerve-racking ☑. Mix, and repeat. I've been on some roads in Northern Pakistan-- they all look like Fairy Meadows. Hawaii and any American road has nothing on Pakistan. The Karakorum Highway was my all-time favorite bus ride-- everything went wrong, short of going over a cliff!
Whoever wrote the narration for this should have had a Thesaurus nearby. Not easy trying to find different ways to describe a bunch of roads that are exactly the same.
This right here. It kept sounding like the same thing over and over again. Disappointed that there weren't chapters so I could skip to each road. I promise they could have been in any order and it would have been the same video
Grew up with my dad driving on unpaved roads. We call them shingle roads. Some of them still the same by the time I got my drivers licence. Just stick to the grey stuff! My dad once told me that if you can’t get up in low gear, reverse gear will get you up. Helpful advice as I had to use it one time on a mountainous road after I stopped to let faster traffic pass. Hairpin bends a switchbacks are there for a reason. You won’t be able to drive up a mountain on a straight road. You need the bends. I would drive all these roads except the India one. Too much traffic and old trucks.
You forgot to mension the Santorini road up the mountain from the ferry. It's extremely spine chilling narrow road w/o any rails ver 2,000 ft above sea level like Nepal, 😆.
Went up Mt Washington to the top by car. That was very scary (no guard rail’s either) will never do again. But that was nothing compared to these roads. Wow!
Thanks to who ever was on the motorcycle for taking us along. Beautiful views, but I do not see myself driving thru. I forgot to ask, how is cellular connections in case of emergencies .
I rode the road to Hana in Hawaii. We had to stop at the bends of the road to make sure noone was coming the other way. We saw cars that fell off the road. Looked like they were down there for awhile. But we did it. ❤
Would love to drive the Tianmen highway & most others, probably not death road & Pakistan rd. The only road I would consider scary that I have driven , is up Mt Washington in New Hampshire USA , the kids were screaming looking out windows, and not seeing the rd. Thanks Cool Roads !
Yes, that road was daunting, indeed. I was shocked by it, actually, but the trip went very smoothly. The upside to being the driver is that your eyes are on the road not the cliff edge.
True , glad I was driving . Glad it went smooth . My sister burned up her brakes, not gearing down , we told her too. Beautiful mtn. a 6288 ft. vertical rise.@@2lipToo
What's funny is that I think the road between Waihee-Waiehu and Kapalua in northwestern Maui is probably actually more dangerous and scarier than the road to Hana. At least it was the last time I was there.
I don't think the road to Hana is half as freaky as some of these other places up in the Himalayas. I was surprised you even see that road on this video.
Your cover photo highway was not shown in this video. I feel slightly cheated as I wanted to know where this highway is actually located. However mostly your style of sharing and taking us with you are well done and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing 👍
