I Tried Earth’s Deadliest Transport Routes

Today, I'm testing the deadliest transport routes in the world, including the zombie buses of Bangladesh, where drivers literally race each other to get passengers, a real-life jet pack, the river cruise, which is notorious for sinking, and driving along this road in Bolivia, also known as Death Road. There's five different levels, and we're gonna be increasing with danger as we go. Yeah, this might be my stupidest video idea yet. Anyway, welcome to level one. First of all, we are testing a road. And I hear you say, Chris, you're at the seaside. You're not at a road? Wrong. It's a road that goes into the sea. This is a three-mile stretch of road called Passage de Gaulle in France, and it connects France to an island over there. So what makes this road so dangerous? Given that it spends 80% of its time submerged in water, it's the tide. The tide comes in and out here very, very quickly, and some days it comes in faster than others, meaning the window to cross this road on some days can be less than two hours. You then pair that with people breaking down on the road. I mean, what happens if you break down on this road? It's time to give you some headline figures about France's deadliest road. Approximately 40 cars a year get swept away to sea crossing this road, and I do mean swept away to sea. At the deepest point, there is over four meters of ocean above this road. Can't drive out of that. And that is despite some serious safety measures. They've got rescue vehicles. They've also got these ladders dotted along the whole road. So let's say you do get caught out by the tide, you can climb up the ladder and not drown. Your car will drown, but you'll be okay. And they've even built a bridge across the other side of the island. But this road is so much quicker that people still take it despite its dangers. And that's exactly what I'm gonna be doing today. Let's go and cross this road. When I arrived at the road, the tide was completely out, and honestly, there didn't seem anything dangerous about this road at all. First thing I've noticed is the sheer number of vehicles that are on here. And a lot of the people that are going across it are stopping halfway along. Here on the left is one of the rescue stands. So if you do get stranded here, you can just climb up onto that stand and stay on there until the tide goes out. It's not until you stood on top of this emergency tower that you realize just how high the tide's gonna come. If you get stranded out here, it's not like your car's just gonna get submerged in water and stay where it is. Your car's going out to sea. This is serious. The real question is though, how on earth did they build this road? There's only a three-hour window that this road is not submerged under the sea. How does anyone do any work on it? We're literally in the sea. My objective for the road crossing was to be the first person to cross the passage when the tide was going out, which would mean waiting for the tide to come all the way in and then start going out again, which wouldn't be until this evening. So in the meantime, I pulled over and just enjoyed the road. Okay, we're half an hour past high tide, meaning we've got less than an hour until this place is underwater. Getting the sense that people are starting to finish up, it's like a game of chicken. It's like last person to leave wins. It really does beg the question, doesn't it? Why did the ocean cross the road? To get to the other tide. I think what makes this road so dangerous is that it doesn't feel dangerous at all. It feels like you're on the beach. And I think that's how so many people get caught out. You don't realise how fast it can change. Okay, the tide's on its way in now. I reckon we've got like half an hour. I'm out of here. As much as this is about deadly roads and stuff, I'm not trying to put myself in danger and set a bad example. I sat and watched the tide come in and cover the road. Then on my return, I was determined to be the first person to make the crossing. Nine hours later, as the sun was starting to set, the tide had gone out just enough that the road was starting to be uncovered. So I jumped back in the car in an attempt to be the first person to make the crossing. I'm waiting to see no cars have followed me. Oh, I'm so nervous. Do not try this at home, whatever you do. If I was this nervous for level one, imagine how nervous I was for level five, where I'll be driving along death road. The other rental company that I rented this car off. Stop watching, please. Oh, all the people are watching me. Is it safe? Can you cross? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll have a look. What's the... Yeah, yeah. Someone else is... Are you traversing? Okay. I then got stuck talking to these lovely French people who were saying that it was still too dangerous to cross the road, and that I should wait until the road was completely clear of water. But they didn't understand that being washed away to sea would make for great content. So I got back in the car and tried to be the first person to make the crossing. Let's go. Come on, come on, Renault. Woo-hoo! Let's go! I'd actually spent that much time talking to the well-intentioned French people that the road was clear and safe to cross. I really thought this was gonna look like I was driving over the sea, but indecision is decision, and I'd left it too late for that. That said, it was still pretty cool. First person to cross Barre passage de Gaulle on the evening shift. First person to cross, come on. Oh, man alive. Call me danger man. Anyway, on to the next level. The level two, you're not gonna believe what we are testing. We're gonna go and try out a jet pack. Yes, a real jet pack. I don't feel like I need to explain why these are dangerous, but I'm going to. So these jet packs use literal mini jet engines and you essentially have seven of them strapped to your body, which in itself is dangerous, right? Pair that with the jet fuel that you have strapped on your back to fuel those jets. This sounds like a recipe for disaster. I'm here to find out if that's true or not. I have so many questions about these jet packs, like how fast can they go? How long can you fly for? When are we gonna be commuting to work in a jet pack? These are the questions we all want to know. Let's go and find out the answers. All right, guys, we're here with Ryan, who's one of the flying experts here at Gravity, and he's gonna answer a couple of questions about flying jet packs. Is it gonna feel like danger? Hopefully it's not gonna feel like danger for you, but it's not gonna feel like freedom either. There's that learning curve. Is it learning? Right, okay. You're gonna get in, you're gonna feel the power of the suit. You're gonna see what it can provide, and hopefully you can learn to control that enough to get a hover. Okay, just, I'd be buzzing with a hover, to be honest. Let's go and try a jet pack. Ryan then took me and the other guests down to the specialized test area, where we'd be actually flying the jet packs. Right, we've just sat down. I'm in through a very detailed safety briefing. We then went down and tried on the jet pack as well, went through the evacuation procedure. It's all getting very real. First thing I noticed about the jet pack, obviously, it's pretty heavy. Oh, they're firing one up in the background. That's quite cool. We've also been told about the different positions you should be in when you're actually using the jet pack, how you need to lean forward to move forward, and if you hold your arms out in front, you'll go back. Quite nervous. More excited than nervous, though. What's not making me feel so good about this is the screen they've got in here just showing crashes. Hopefully this is not gonna be me today. Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come. Duh! Another fun fact about the jet pack, when the jet pack is idling, the air is coming out at 350 degrees Celsius, and when we're thrusting, like this guy is now, the air's coming out at over 700 degrees Celsius. That's hot. It's so hot, in fact, that you have to wear gaiters on your legs to stop your trousers from burning. It's very loud! Literally feels like I'm at a military testing ground or something. This is where they're developing the next Superman. Can you buy a jet pack off the shelf now and fly it home? Not entirely, no. Unfortunately, we only tend to sell towards military at the moment. Hopefully one day, you never know. One day. So one day, we could all be commuting to work on a jet pack. Might be a bit loud for that. Are you allowed to say how much they are, roughly? Is there a price, or? There's not entirely a price nowadays. Normally, when people have purchased them, they get them with a training package. So it's quite hard to put a number on just a suit. We could go for half a million. Half a million pounds! Whoa! Wow! Okay. I then signed my life away in case something did go wrong in the jet pack. It's time to go and get hooked up to the jet pack. I've only got a couple of goes at this, so gotta do well. Here we go. I think he's gonna come and call my name. The nerves are set. Is it me? Time to go. Oh! Okay, let's go. To infinity and beyond! I feel like it's gonna be really, really hard. I think it's way harder than it looks. These are essentially aeroplane engines scaled down. You've got seven of them on you. Seven aeroplane engines. It was time to go jet packing and try and achieve my goal of a hover. The instructor was giving me some exercises to do so I could get a feel for the jet pack and get my balance. We started with what can only be described as the cha-cha slide. I then did some calf raising exercises to get a feeling for takeoff, which then evolved into mini hops on half this time. The jet pack was really powerful and as a result, quite hard to control. And that was just with 20% power. I know it doesn't look like much, but I was so happy to just get a bit of lift off. I was literally getting air time here. Let's go. But I kept panicking and taking my finger off the power, thinking I was gonna fly away. Obviously I wasn't, but I did. Yeah, yeah. Okay, relax, enjoy it. Hold that power. Was it as scary as you thought it was gonna be? No, no. It's just when you lose control, whenever you feel it going, you're like, oh. So we're just refueling now before we have the second go. These things drink four and a half liters of fuel a minute. So a very expensive fuel bill flying these. What's the highest speed anyone's ever achieved in one of your jet packs? So the highest speed with a wingsuit is 86 miles an hour. Without a wingsuit is 71. And that was Issa Kalfon, racing DJ Khaled on a jet ski. What? I was not expecting that. And what's the furthest you can go on a jet pack? Depends how fast you're going, really. A couple of kilometers, maybe a couple of miles. Right, but you can go over anything. That's the important thing, isn't it? You can go up mountains, over lakes. And that's the unique thing about jet packs. You can fly them over anything. And as a result, even people like Mountain Rescue have been trialing them. Anyway, it was time for my final go in the jet pack. Look, I wasn't exactly gonna be flying home with a jet pack, but I was learning to balance the power and having lots of fun in the process. Side note, how insane is the world that almost anyone can just go and fly a jet pack now? That's sick. Wow, wow, wow. That was so much fun. It's incredibly difficult and makes me appreciate just how skilled some of the pilots are that fly these. Speaking of pilots that fly these though, we're gonna go and get a demonstration now from one of the instructors who's been flying one of these for years. What's your favorite thing about flying a jet pack? Is it scary or is it just like thrill for you at this point? No, it doesn't feel thrilling, to be honest. It feels calm. It feels like pure freedom. Like you're not restricted in any direction in any sort of way. It's incredible. To infinity and beyond for Ryanair, this man was an absolute machine. He made it look easy, controlling the power of the jet pack effortlessly and give us all a glimpse into what a future traveling in jet packs could look like. Level two complete. Buzz Lightyear is not in danger of losing his job, but that was so much fun and it did achieve our goal of doing a little hover. I'll take that. How dangerous was level two? Given the strict health and safety that they implement here, it was more of a thrill than danger. I can't believe this is only level two. Right, for the next two levels of the challenge, we're gonna be exploring some of the most extreme public transport in the world in Bangladesh. I'm here with Noman. He's my guide while we're here and we've got some fun things lined up, haven't we? Yes. First thing I've noticed about Bangladesh, other than the traffic, is the food is quite different to home. Maybe I'm overthinking it a bit, but when I'm at home, I never really have to overthink about food because I've got HelloFresh. They're the sponsor of this video. And if you use code CHRIS1, you get 50% off your first box and 20% off your next four boxes, plus free treats for two months, including fruit bundles. HelloFresh delivers pre-portioned ingredients straight to your door, including a recipe card so you can make the meals at home. 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So what's the danger? These river boats all depart from Dakar during the night, where thousands of other local boats also operate, but without any lights or communication. During the festival season, these boats run massively overcrowded too, which increases the chance of the boat sinking. There are also critical bottlenecks where the rivers merge, creating a hotspot for collisions between boats. As a result, there's been over a thousand incidents reported on these rivers in just the last 25 years. So the goal is simple. Make it to Barishal from Dakar without crashing. From this point on, these routes have seen a lot of real fatalities. And I just want to be clear here. I'm not trying to sensationalize any of those tragedies. I'm just trying to show you what it's actually like out here. Right, me and No Man are now going to take you on a tour of the ferry. One of the most exciting ferries in the world, I must say. Then you come in, you check in, you get your room key there or your ticket to stay on your level. And then now we're going to take you through all the different levels on the ship, how much the different tickets cost and what it looks like to stay at each of those different levels. So this is level one. Which is? The deck. And it's like three to four US dollars okay to stay here. It's busy, active, vibrant, would you say? Yeah, yeah. It's all happening down here, isn't it? Every type of people actually stay here. There is no privacy. Yeah, yeah. Because it's the cheapest one. Yeah. So you just actually put a blanket over here and just sit on there. There's no parties or discos down here tonight? No. It's just people getting from A to B, isn't it? Yeah. Traveling with their family. Would you say this is pretty busy at the minute or does it get a lot busier than this? It's not busy today. The busy one is actually from Borishal to Dhaka because everyone will come back to Dhaka for work. Ah, work tomorrow. So this is all the different cargo that people are like transporting with them. Oh my days. So yeah, there's literally like industrial cargo. The engine, no way. This is the engine. It's very warm. There's not many cruisers where you could just come down and see the actual engine. And then the washrooms around here. Yes. Yeah. That's fine. What's crazy is that these massive ferries are taking off in the same river as these tiny, tiny boats with no lights on. So these small boats are going to do a good job of avoiding the big ferries. Oh, they're going? Yes. Don't crash. Into this? No, it won't. Was it actually going to crash into us? This ferry's taking off now. We're stood still. No man thinks it's going to crash into us. That'll be the third crash of the day. Oh, they're going. I told you. We're not going to crash. But I can show you a video. Okay. The whole time they crashed. Okay. Okay, so half an hour until we go. All right, so now we're going on to the second floor. This is home to single cabins and the VIP rooms. And then upstairs is just double cabins. So the single and double cabins are pretty similar. Still see, really, really busy on the platform despite a lot of the departures already happened. And now we're going to show you one of the cabins and then the VIP room. The cabins were $10 for the night. Cruises used to take around 10 hours as well. So this is the single cabin. Here we go. This is one of the rooms. This is it? Yeah, there's not much to say for this one, is there? Shared toilets. Yeah. Oh, so there is a bit of AC. Centralized AC. Okay. Single bed. Place to charge your phones. Blanket. The menu. Is that the menu? Oh yeah. Right, and then these are the VIP rooms. Let's go, no man. Wow. It is bright in here. This is sick. I mean, there's like a private dining area if you want to come with your family and dine here. And then this is one of our rooms. Keep for your room. Yeah, let's go. Let me show you the room. So here we are. Look at this. Not bad, eh? You get a double bed. Nice little seating area down the side. Right away, they came and actually gave us some complimentary food and guava with some salt. It was nice. Really nice orange. Very good. TV as well. It's so brand new. The sticker's still on it from when they bought it. Towel with a... Prayer mat. Oh, prayer mat, prayer mat. Okay. There's a flipping balcony. Yeah, this is it. So you've got your sink outside, the toilets next door, a nice seating area. Watch your head on the AC unit. And then yeah, a view out to the river. Talk about light switches. They've really taken it to the next level in this room. We have got 12 light switches. No way. There's one for each light. And then it's just the toilet in here. Toilet and the shower, by the way. Yeah, so that's it. That's the VIP room. I've got to say as well, you can have this room. I'll just stay in there. Are you sure? Yeah, yeah. Genuinely. This boat is actually massive. This guy here was selling fruit covered in mustard, which turns out to be a delicacy here in Bangladesh. Not something I fancied. With the last few people getting on board, all aboard, it was finally time to depart. We're going. And the chaos started straight away. There's a searchlight here to spot all the mini boats. Like you can see them out here. Honestly, you can see it way better on camera than we can in real life. But they've got that searchlight there literally to stop them crashing into these mini boats. I look how many boats are here. This is why this is so dangerous. This is only level three as well. Four and five is more crazy than this. Stay tuned. Look at all these boats. Look at this dude here. I was absolutely staggered by the sheer number of boats in the river. There were hundreds. Most of them carrying workers between the city and the shipyard. Me and Norman actually walked around the shipyard the day before. Literally anyone can just climb on the ships whilst they're being worked on. Health and safety just doesn't exist in Bangladesh. Someone was also shining the laser at the ferry too, as if there wasn't enough for the captain to be worried about already. We then went onto the roof of the boat and actually got invited into their cockpit by the captain just to see how they drive these dangerous ferries. Sit down. Sit down? Oh. Where are you from? England. British? Yes. You are a British? Yes. What is your name? Chris. What's your name? My name is Humayun Kubir. Humayun Kubir. Nice to meet you. Look at this. Our prime minister, long time stay in London. Oh, he's in London? Yes. Wow. Our prime minister. How many people are driving? So three people are driving actually. They're in rotation. Right. How fast are we going? 34, wow. Wow. That's fast. Faster than I was expecting. Thank you. So here we are. That's the captain's bay. That's where they're all driving. Yeah, and this is, I'm assuming this is like friends and family at the front. And then out in front, we've got another ferry coming towards us. They just flashed at us, like just letting them know that we're here so we don't crash. That's always good. I continued to enjoy the journey, feeling reassured by the fact that the captain was driving with a broken hand. Not only do the bus drivers race each other, so do the ferry drivers. So this one sailed like way behind us, but that one down there sailed way, way, way behind us. And they're catching us. This can be dangerous. There, I mean, you can see this way better than you can in real life, but that, that there is a ship. That ferry there is very close to us here. So now we're both going to go either side of this ship stuck in the middle, but the ship's got no lights on at all. These are much dangerous ferries. Right. Like these ferries have VHF and communication system, rudder system, everything. Yeah. But these boats don't have anything. Damn. I think this shot does a much better job of showing just how dark it really was. Like you can barely see these boats and they're just out there on the water. Okay, guys, we are now at a really busy intersection between two different rivers. I cannot reiterate enough just how dangerous this is. Like, look, okay. There, that little light, a ship. You just wouldn't see it. There's no light. And again, here, look, that little light over there in the distance, a massive, massive ship. If this goes bad easily, those two could crash. Again, could be fatal. And of course, these ships that you can barely see can't communicate with us. Brilliant. The only other boats with lights on are these. They're carrying natural gas. So if you hit that, there'd be a big crash. With what felt like a lot of close calls, we did eventually make it through the worst of this crossroads and continued along a very busy river. Fun fact as well, the US ambassador for Bangladesh was traveling on that ferry, hence the police escort. He's a very brave man. Noman and I then sat down for some food with the world's smallest fork and of course, a bit more fruit with some salt. I honestly don't understand why they do this, but here we are. I am so angry. I offered for Noman to stay in this room and he refused. He didn't accept it. He's too kind. So I brought the VIP room. The VIP room does actually come with, I didn't realize this, this pillow is like a hugging pillow. And it's also a bit weird. Mirrors on the ceiling so you can just look at yourself. What a view. It does not get any better. It's nice to think as well that if we do sink in the middle of the night, I'm trapped on my balcony and I can't get out. On that, we've done over half of the journey. We've not collided with anything, much as what I feel like there's been some close calls. Hopefully I do see you in the morning. This could be for a voiceover, like the seas got really choppy as we headed into the night or something like that. Morning. You all right? It's you. I didn't know who it was. We've landed in Barisal. We landed here at 5 a.m. actually and I managed to sleep through that. No man kindly woke me up at six. Legend. So we just landed here. I mean, look at these views. Absolutely lovely. No man did just point out to me that this crane here is for picking up ships that have sinked. Must be a big market for it. So yeah, that's just a boat. A boat that drives about and then can pick up all the boats that have sunk off the floor. With level three complete, we were staying in Bangladesh for level four where things were gonna go up a notch. Next, we're gonna be taking the most dangerous buses in the entire world. It's the Bangladesh public buses. Now what makes these buses so dangerous? With roads so full, chaotic and busy, there is so much that can go wrong. These buses run overcrowded and are literally falling to pieces. But worst of all, the bus system here encourages dangerous or even reckless driving. But I'll explain more about that later. And unfortunately, as a result, over 30,000 people a year die on these roads. In fact, the day I arrived in Bangladesh, there was a bus crash just a few miles from where I was killing nine people. Oh, oh God. The bus drivers do everything here. I mean, drive the buses, they sleep on the buses, they maintain the buses. This is literally like where they live. This is their home. Like yesterday, I saw a bus driver taking the wheel off his bus, making some repairs, and then he was gonna get back on the road and start driving again. These bus drivers have to do everything. They depend on these buses. So the goal for these buses, don't crash. Welcome to Dakar, the capital city of Bangladesh and the most crowded in the world. Whilst I'm here, I'm gonna be taking three buses, two of them within the city and another across the country. Bus number one is gonna take us across the entire length of Dakar. And on that note, let's go and get on the bus. Here's what Max Verstappen is working with here. That's his gearbox. You can kind of just see through straight to the floor down there. And then this is what his control hub here, these switches. You'll notice there's a lot of honking. At home, I honk when like someone's in the way or they've cut me up, but here you just honk all the time. You just gotta honk to let people know you're there. No man. What's the deal here then? We've got one guy driving and then one guy behind. He's letting people on, is he? Yeah, for the conductor and taking the fare from the passengers. Ah, okay. So he's telling people like, get on the bus. He's telling people from every stand. Yeah. And he will also take the fare from the passengers. Just like a team effort between these two. Yes. Got it. So it's $4 for this bus. I think it's gonna take us over half an hour, maybe like an hour bus ride. This route would end up actually taking twice as long as I thought, but we were off in the chaotic streets of Dakar. So here's the situation here. This bus in front, despite being a different colour, is from the same company and each company does the exact same route. So we are now competing with this bus for passengers. I mean, in my head, it makes sense to space them out a bit, but they're just driving together. Now this is one of the key reasons that these buses are so dangerous. So not only are the buses being released on the same route at the same time, but because the bus companies don't pay salaries to the conductors and drivers, they're forced to race through the streets to get to the stops first, to pick up the passengers first so that they can make their money. Damn it, they stole our passengers. The only way they can provide for their families is getting to these stops first to make the money from the passengers that they pick up. So now we're locked in a race with the bus in front in an attempt to pick up passengers before they do. If not, our bus driver might not make the money he needs today. We're now driving in the exact same direction as this other bus, competing for the same passengers. Now we're gonna make an overtake. In Bangladesh, it literally is, no buses come for ages, then two come at once. You feel like you're gonna crash a couple of seconds. In the first two stops, we've overtook four other buses on the same route. I think that's one overtaking us back now. We're winning the race. So he's like holding onto this stop as long as possible. And then as soon as he sees another bus come, we'll be going. Oh, we are racking up passengers here. Is this more people getting on? All right, here we go, the expressway. This is where we make up serious time. Unless this guy goes crip, what is going on? Oh, it's the car honking because he wants to get by. I really felt like I was in a deep end here because driving was nothing like I've ever experienced. The expressway is a shortcut across the city where it was slightly less chaotic, but the journey was far from over. What are we honking at? Look how fast we're going. Zero, speedo, just doesn't work. If you don't know how fast you're going, you can't absolutely speed it. After leaving the relative safety of the expressway, we dived into an absolute goldmine for the bus drivers, which was the factories. But that meant one thing, absolute chaos. Now you might be looking at some of these buses and thinking how on earth do they pass their services every year? Like how are they actually road legal? Truth be told, they're not. There are traffic officers that enforce people having, like for example, on the buses, having a service every year and making sure that your lights work, indicators work, that kind of thing. Wow, just almost crashed. But because the buses are so expensive to maintain and repair things on, it's actually cheaper to just bribe the traffic officers than fix the issue, which results in things like this happening. In panic, the driver pulled all the cables out of his horn, so he had no horn for the rest of the journey. He was like a toothless tiger after that, so we got off the bus. And there it goes. That's our bus going off into the distance. Okay team, we are back and we're back on another bus because the first one wasn't dangerous enough, so we've gotten another one. We've been helped out by a very kind local. He got me some pineapple as a gift. In fact, he's here right now. Thank you, brother. Thank you. Yeah, this kind man is actually a big Bangladesh actor, aren't you? And he also manages the bus here and does some other stuff. He's got us the best seat in the house on this very cool bus. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, let's go on a bus tour. Let me show you around this new bus we're on. So, there is many, many seats, as you can see. This one's actually been pretty recently refurbished, I think. We've also got the fans all along the roof because it's very, very hot and humid in Bangladesh. Without a doubt, the best seat in the house, back seat. Let's show all the cool kids a seat. This is my seat. I'm sitting here. Joking. I'm not driving. I'm a passenger seat, although it's a passenger seat. If I was driving, it might be less dangerous. Nice view out the front. Nice view, yeah. Yeah, it's safe, this bus is, yeah. Never been in any accidents, never crashed nothing. This bus is gonna be taking us from the northwest of Dakar back to the center again. We've got lots of cargo in the front, already lots of passengers. We're gonna be on this bus for over two hours. This bus driver here has actually had a really, really hard day. So, if you might have noticed, he's got money in his hand. He's taking money off of customers. That's because he's doing all of the jobs. He's driving and conducting. Usually on these buses, they've got a driver and a conductor with them. Whereas this guy's conductor, don't know what's two of them, ran off with all their money on the last ride. It's a much, much harder job than just driving. And honking the horn, of course. Don't forget about that job. You might notice as well, couple of cracks on the windshield. I think it adds character. Look at this. The roads are mental. Oh, geez, this is a hard journey. Because the driver's by himself as well, we're taking this a bit slower, which I think is good for our safety. It's just like things like this, so when the road surface gets really bad, like it is on the road here, everyone has to slow down a lot. And then that, as a result, creates traffic jams. Despite having to do everything on the bus, this man was not conceding his position in the races easily. We drove through construction zones, people were getting off the bus without paying, and it was 8 million degrees in here. But eventually, we made it. And the crazy thing is, bus three makes this one look tame. Thank you. And there we go. So for the third and craziest bus ride, we're going from Barisal and heading back to Dakar. We're getting a four-hour bus now between two of the big regions. We're gonna be going on lots of highways. I think this is actually where the buses are most dangerous. Let's go and find out. Thank you. Oh, great. Look at this, reclining seats. Come on. So this is the driver's setup on this bus. This is like for the long-haul drive. Look at this. Don't crash. We just crashed. So without even getting out of the parking space, I'd failed the goal of don't crash. But anyway, we still had the goal of getting to Dakar. So if I'm being honest, I wasn't actually planning on filming much on this bus ride as we were just coming back from the ferry that I'd taken. But turns out driving in the country is way more dangerous than the city. This stuff was on another level. We had buses and lorries coming head on throughout the entire journey. It was absolutely nuts. There were so many close calls that the bus driver didn't flinch once. Hello. What, is he a madman? Yeah. Whilst we had a break at one of the bus stops, a driver did offer to drive me at 120 kilometers an hour down these country roads. But I pleasantly declined as I didn't want to encourage him and put passengers and pedestrians in more danger than they already are. Thankfully, the drivers I had in Bangladesh were more civilized. Okay, so we're back on this bus. This bus ride's going all right so far. We're now going back onto the highway, though. Definitely, definitely one of the most dangerous roads we've been on so far. Because in the city centers, you go quite slow. Despite there being loads of traffic, you go quite slow. So you've got time to react. But here, my days, they're just relentless. The speed is insane. Anyway, I say we get there in one piece. All right, guys, I've made a friend here on the bus. This is, do you want to say your name? Yeah, my name is Abdullah Ahmed. I'm from Boishal. And we're on the bus ride together. We've been on this bus four hours, haven't we? But this is like my third bus now here in Bangladesh. You've taken many, many buses here. This is where you live. What do you think to the buses in Bangladesh? We have a lot of buses, you will see. Yeah. But we have a train, too. You've got trains, as well? Yeah, train, as well. And buses are just taking over, coursing over on there. And their speed is too big, 120 kilometers per hour. It's too dangerous for us. Of course, our road is not comfortable with this speed. Yeah, so you're saying the buses are quite dangerous and that it's so busy in the city. Yeah, that's why they're just challenging each other and they're just crashing our bus. Right. What's your favorite color bus? White. White, white bus, yeah. I like a white bus, as well. They are driving like crazy, man. They drive like crazy? Yeah. Are they the craziest drivers? Yeah, yeah, I had an experience before, like they are just crashing over and somehow we are just survived there. What, you were in a bus crash? Yeah, yeah. No way. Almost one years ago, guys were just survived one crash. Was it a severe crash? Yeah, two people are just spotted and many of them are injured, as well. Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Two people died in a crash. Pleasure to meet you. And enjoy the rest of your safe travels. Thanks for traveling Bangladesh. No, no problem, it's been fun. There we go, tour de Bangladesh complete and all of the public transport we've now tried. The ferries and the buses were the focus of this video and both of them, despite being very dangerous, we did survive. Something I've come to realize, I think danger is a lot about perspective and the people of Bangladesh are so exposed to day-to-day danger, they can tolerate it more. Big thank you to No Man behind the camera. Flip the camera around. Yeah, yeah. Thanks, No Man. On to the last level of this challenge. I am very nervous for this one. Welcome to level five and welcome to Bolivia. This is the North Yungas Road, also known as Death Road. The road actually starts here, up at 15,000 feet of elevation and we're gonna be descending 11,000 feet, essentially down into the rainforest. I'm here with an expert. This is Kenneth and he's gonna be guiding me on the tour down Death Road. Hello, everyone. But you've been doing this a while as well. Yeah, so like 13 years or so. Do you ever get scared at any point? I mean, a few times, yes. A few times, yeah, yeah, yeah. I respect this road a lot, you know, because it's still dangerous. Yeah. Have you ever seen any dangerous accidents on Death Road? Yeah, I've seen many of them, you know, some of them like bloody accidents, crazy accidents. Lots of them. Yeah, yeah, okay. So we gotta be careful. We gotta be careful. But we're gonna have a good time as well. We'll try and have a good time as well. We came here to have fun. That's it, we're here to have fun. The goal for this section is gonna be make it down the road, but I think there's also gonna be some good scenery opportunities here. I think Death Road could be a bit of a hidden gem in terms of scenery. Oh, geez. Crazy, isn't it? Kenneth was just explaining that a bus, there was a really serious bus accident on this corner, just literally there, where we're pulling over and starting. And the bus is actually still there. That's the remains of the bus. After that chilling reminder of how dangerous this road can be, we jumped on some bikes to head down to the official start point of Death Road. Road, here she is. So what's the danger? Death Road was the main road from the capital city of La Paz to the Amazon rainforest. The road is extremely narrow with a sheer cliff on one side. And it's made even more dangerous with terrible landslides it gets, especially during the rainy season. At its peak, two to 300 people died on this road every single year, earning the reputation as the most dangerous road in the world. Let's go, we're gonna be in the van for this section. Why? Because it's more dangerous than being on the bike. And we love danger. Welcome to Death Road. This is literally just vultures, as an actual vulture, just swarming around. Hopefully that's not a sign of things to come. All right, here we go. The first part of Death Road starts out like any other mountain gravel pass. But trust me, the further we go down, the more dangerous it's gonna get. So let's take a look at the route for Death Road. It's around six kilometers long. Starting in the highlands, it winds its way down into the subtropical region of La Paz. The interesting thing about Death Road is that in all of Bolivia, you drive on the right-hand side of the road. Except for Death Road, when you go on the left-hand side, left-hand side as you're going. And you should give way to the traffic coming up. We're going down, which means we're on the cliff side. Again, making it more dangerous. Will has got this in the bag. He's done this loads. You can see what he's doing. Despite my confidence, worrying signs kept appearing with grave markers of people that had lost their lives on this road already. And with that, the road was getting narrower and narrower. Two vehicles are meant to get past each other here. Another vehicle came the other way. Imagine how close to the edge we're going to have to get to let someone through. It's just a ----. Pop off the edge. Hey, look, this bobblehead's keeping me entertained, though. Sections like that. Also, drivers had to stop on the white corners and wait for upcoming traffic, you know? Ah, okay, yeah, yeah. It was more flow for upcoming traffic. If the drivers were unlucky, meeting each other on the narrow section of the road, they had to back off. So, vehicles going down had to back up, looking for white corners and pass with the other vehicles. Got it, got it, right. Okay, so the next stop is the balcony, which is the cliff edge. We call it balcony because this one has like 500 meters drop. 500 meters? That's correct. Okay. I just can't look over the edge. I don't know how Will's doing this. This man's a robot. What? As you said, no chances. No. 500 meter drop, that is. Just a bit more context. This is a single track, bros. Right, here we go. The most dangerous motoring I've ever done in my life. Oh! No! Oh my! Oh! Oh my! What? I think I just had a heart attack. The fact that hundreds and thousands of people used to drive up and down this road is absolutely mind-blowing. Oh, wow. There's a waterfall. This road is so scenic, yet absolutely terrifying. There's another waterfall. I'm low-key absolutely terrified Will is just sending it. I know he's used to driving on this road. Mate, to ask Will if he's had like any close calls driving along this road personally. No, not yet. Okay, that makes me feel good. I think Will was downplaying things a bit here because shortly after, Kenneth showed me a video of Will driving the exact same minibus we were in over a plank of wood that had been used to cross a landslide on Death Road. And that exact section of road was coming up later. I've just realized this gear stick as well. Seems appropriate. If you don't laugh, you'll cry. This is the devil's tail section. That's correct, yeah, devil's tail section because, I mean, drivers name this section like that. This is known as the deadliest section on Death Road where most of the traffic accident happened. This is? Yes, this narrow and windy part. Really? Yeah. I would have thought the balcony would be the most dangerous. I guess this is just long, isn't it? Exactly. Yeah, so traffic was just crazy. And then on the left, you'll find the devil's bridge. Devil's bridge, oh my days, we've just driven over that. The reason the section we're on now, the devil's tail, is so dangerous is because there's absolutely no passing places which meant cars would have to reverse long distances over narrow stretches of road. We're super lucky that we haven't met a single car coming the other way yet. And you might be wondering why that is. That's because they built a brand new tarmac road that bypasses Death Road and in turn has saved countless lives. Is this a good time to tell you I'm scared of heights? Wow. When I heard about Death Road, this is not what I had in mind. This really is not what I had in mind. It's a hidden gem. Whilst the scenery might have been incredibly picturesque, I was soon brought back down to reality with landslides and more grave markings. This section of the road has a really weak edge. They mark on the road where the weak edge is, but as a result of that weak edge, there's been a lot of fatal accidents on this section here in particular. Going past lots and lots of, you know, crosses here. Back there, I think, was where one of the worst crashes on Death Road was back in the 80s. A bus actually fell off the edge of the road and then everyone on board. Is this where there was a landslide? Is this real? Oh my God! Possibly one of the most picturesque places in Bolivia. And that's a bus down there from another fatal accident. Just to remind you where you are. But from here, the road gets a bit wider. It gets a bit less steep, I believe. So the descent is a bit more safe. We've survived the worst of the road, we think. So now we're going to jump on the bike, ride down to the bottom and just enjoy it. We're going to absolutely shred it, aren't we, Kenneth? Rock on! Let's go! Thanks again, Hell and Fresh, for making this video possible. Don't forget to check them out in the link in the description or scan this QR code. But anyway, I feel like I learned an important lesson filming this video. Death Road! Yes, safety is important. And I'm not telling anyone to go and drive down Death Road. And I'm definitely not trying to glamorize the places I went to in this video. But a bit of danger is necessary. Without it, we become fragile. Take risks.