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You may have missed the fanfare that accompanied the December opening of the railway line connecting the Laotian capital, Vientiane, with Boten, a town on the Chinese border, but the news sent train buffs into a frenzy, not least because the high-speed link makes it possible to now travel all the way from Portugal to Singapore, or vice versa, by. ....
Karakoram Highway, Pakistan to China This ancient Silk Road route climbs to the 4,700 metre high Khunjerab Pass, which translates to ‘Valley of Blood’ due to its former popularity as an ambush spot for robbers. While you’re unlikely to fend off a bandit attack nowadays, the route is still fraught with danger in the form of landslides, floods and earthquakes. Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road, China An incredible 99 bends (most of them hairpin) loop around this 11 kilometre route over Tianmen Mountain’s vertigo-inducing slopes. If the road itself doesn’t scare you off, take a stroll along the Coiling Dragon Cliff skywalk: a glass-bottomed walkway snaking around the cliffs, some 1,400 metres from the ground. ....