A truly crazy drive has to have a hint of danger, and it has to be beautiful: not just thrilling, but scarily scenic. Here’s a collection of worldwide drives that are guaranteed to make your heart go vroom-vroom.
Residents of the Alps have spent centuries perfecting the art of living life on steep slopes. One of the most spectacularly serpentine of the switchback-filled roads that ascend and descend these mountains is Italy’s Stelvio Pass, which has 60 hairpin turns and reaches elevations of more than 9,000 feet. The first road here was built in the 1820s, and the layout has changed little in the past two centuries.
Slide show text by Amy Swanson, Bing Travel; photo editing by Connie Ricca.
> SlowTrav > Italy > Instructions for Visitors. Driving in Italy. The section covers the basics for driving in Italy. Read it before you go on your trip, so you ...
For American tourists, it is no surprise that seat belts must be used. What may be a surprise is that the use of seat belts became wide-spread only in July, 2003 ...
