Perhaps there is no country in the world where there would be no Death Road. Roads, having entered which once, you can not return back. Folklore tells us about such roads from childhood in a fairy tale about Ivan the Tsarevich: "On the ruin of the paths-roads there is a prophetic stone, and on it is the inscription:" If you go to the right, you will lose the horse, you will save yourself; if you go to the left, you will lose yourself, you will save the horse; you’ll go straight and lose yourself and your horse."
The most famous Death Roads are located in four countries: Bolivia, Mexico, Thailand and Russia - in Lytkarino.
Hoary antiquity
The oldest Death Road or, as it is also called, the Road of the Dead or the Milky Way, is located in Mexico and is one of the most mysterious monuments left to us by the Mayan Indian civilization. It passes between the pyramids, which are much older than the Egyptian ones - in a place called in the language of the Teotihuacan Indians. Its length is 5 kilometers and a width of 50 to 100 meters.
The Road of the Dead is located between the two pyramids in a complex called the Feathered Serpent. There is an assumption that in the zone of the Road of the Dead, under the still uncovered mounds, there are several more pyramids that symbolize the planets of the solar system known to the ancient Indians - Pluto and Neptune. The entire complex of Indian pyramids mysteriously corresponds to the Egyptian pyramidal complex from the Giza Valley, and also conveys the location on the star map of three stars located in the Orion belt. On the sides of the Road are small pyramids, with a fourfold increase in the number of steps. Its end leads to the steps of the pyramid of the moon.
According to legend, the Road is a path that consists of cells, like the life of every person on Earth, which he walks while being in clear consciousness. All cells are symmetrical, but we ourselves choose the side on which we go and fill these cells with the contents that we choose on the way. In addition, symmetry symbolizes that you need to pass this Road together.
20th Century War Roads
One of them is located in Bolivia and is a local attraction. The Bolivian Death Road connects La Paz, located on the Altiplano Upland, with Coroico, in the Amazon jungle. The height difference from one point to another is 3450 meters, and the cliff reaches more than 600 meters, with the width of the road itself no more than three meters. The road was built in the 30s of the last century by Paraguayan prisoners of war. It is almost impossible to drive two cars into it, so now it is more likely to be used by cyclists than by road. And earlier, during active use, up to 300 people died annually.
Another military Death Road - the iron one - was built on the bones of more than one hundred thousand people. Its construction was organized by Imperial Japan during the Second World War. It lies between Bangkok (Thailand) and Rangoon (Burma). The construction involved Asian convicts and prisoners of war of the anti-Hitler coalition. The total length of the road is 415 kilometers, of which almost 13 kilometers are bridges. The construction of the Thai-Burmese railway was recognized as a war crime.
