Talk:Yungas Road

message: It sounds like a very dramatic scene.  Does anyone have a photo or drawing? --Drewnoakes 14:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: Hi, I would like to propose this external link about the Death Road:
http://www.jordibusque.com/Index/Stories/YungasRoad/YungasRoad_01.html
Please, let me know what do you think. Panex 12:56, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi again. If nobody says something agaist, I will wait a few days more and add the link. Thanks Panex 16:15, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link about the Death Road 

message: A German version is now available in the german wikipedia (Yungas Straße) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.170.211.196 (talk) 08:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  German version 

message: I see no mention of the little ceremony that some drivers go through at the little shrine/monument on the left of the road at the summit.  A prayer and the splashing of some alcohol on the shrine is said to ensure a safe return.  Well, it did in our case. Sitting in the left back seat of a minibus over a 1,000 foot drop as it backed up into an outside passing place on the way down was certainly one of the most memorable moments of my life, and possibly one of the most life shortening.    Mafestel (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Alcohol Ceremony

message: The article says that the road was built in the 1910s by Paraguayan prisoners of war taken in the Chaco War. In fact, the Chaco War was fought between 1932-1935, so if the prisoners of war were the only ones to build the road, it could not have been built in the1910s. In fact, Paraguayan prisoners of war were used to built at least part of the road. A momument stands on the road at the point where they were thrown off the side after their work was done (giving another reason to call it the Death Road). I don't know, though, if the road was perhaps started in 1910. More research needs to be done as the article in very unclear, and perhaps inaccurate, as written. ↪ Jhymi  Talk 02:31, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixup about the dates 

message: I changed the maximum altitude to 4650m as measured by GPS during July 2009 - see Flickr photo page for the exact figures.  --Seamusharris (talk) 08:54, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Altitude 

message: The article states:
:Photographs of China's Guoliang Tunnel are often incorrectly identified as showing the Yungas Road.
However, the reference is only a single e-mail "hoax" which intermixed such pictures. I put a CN tag on the statement. Rsduhamel (talk) 16:30, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guoliang Tunnel often incorrectly identified as showing the Yungas Road. 

message: Is this also called Stremnaya Road?  Is there a place named Stremnaya in Bolivia or elsewhere? Casey (talk) 02:11, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stremnaya 

message: It is true that it has been a "popular tourist destination starting in the 1990s, drawing some 25,000 thrillseekers...Nevertheless, the Yungas Road remains dangerous" What has increasing popularity got to do with danger? The road does not become less dangerous just because there are more travelers!101.98.140.129 (talk) 04:48, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dangerous  

message: It is stated that in 2006, it was estimated that 200 to 300 travelers were killed every year along the road. But how many travels are made along the road every year (counting every person and every travel made)? Or how many kilometers are driven along the road every year (counting every kilometer driven by every person)? It makes a huge difference whether there are 2,000 or 2,000,000 travels made along the road every year. —Kri (talk) 13:07, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traveling frequency? 

message: This article needs an overhaul. It's hard to find references since there's so my hype (and I suspect circular referencing back to this article) but as far as I can tell, the original Yungas road (the north road) has been replaced by a more modern route (the south road). The old road is now a tourist attraction rather than an actual transportation route. It needs more recent information from sources that do not have an interest in perpetuating the hype e.g. this one. An up-to-date version of the article is in the Spanish language Wikipedia. --Cornellier (talk) 14:55, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old road vs. new road