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Looking for a different sort of challenge the next time you travel? Here's our pick of some scary tests of nerve and bravery that you could face up to...

For starters, how about tackling the world's most dangerous road?

That dishonour goes to the winding highway that climbs from La Paz to the Yungas region of Bolivia.

Around 300 people die each year on this terrifying route, where sheer drops of thousands of feet are not really want you want to see as your bus overtakes another vehicle on a hairpin bend of a road barely a few metres wide. You'll feel a certain sense of achievement if you're still alive by the end of it.

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