Sentences with phrase «hairpin bends»

After leaving the main highway, the final leg of the trip may be a rather bumpy ride as the road leads downwards in a series of hairpin bends on a largely unfinished surface.

After we left Maláxa we made a spectacular descent with hairpin bends down a hill that was yellow with flowers and shrubs.

From Aguas Calientes, there are regular bus trips to Machu Picchu with the road up the mountain consisting of a succession of hairpin bends on a single track road with sheer drops at the sides.

Tracks also have a good variety of long straights and smooth bends, letting you glide at fantastic speeds as well as tight hairpin bends which, if taken perfectly, will make you feel like a real champion.

After crossing the Mueller River the pass begins to climb steeply, accompanied by a few hairpin bends as you reach the top.

Where: In the southern French Alps, in the Isère département at the top of the most famous stretch of road on the Tour de France, with 21 hairpin bends in 14 km.

After the opening straight — which featured a huge TV screen displaying Galaxian — came a tunnel with a bend, which then lead out to a narrow bridge and the first of a few hairpin bends.

Tracks also have a good variety of long straights and smooth bends, letting you glide at fantastic speeds as well as tight hairpin bends which, if taken perfectly, will make you feel like a real champion.

The optional ABT suspension springs, which lower the sports model by 20 mm at the front and 25 mm at the rear, make sure the pocket rocket handles even hairpin bends with ease.

Next, a tranquil 90 - minute fjord cruise will show you just how the sea has carved its way in and around Norway's coastline, before you are shuttled along steep hairpin bends on a bus to Voss to see out the final leg of your journey on a train to Bergen.

The road takes several sharp hairpin bends before opening up on the left to grasslands, whilst the forest continues on the right.

With over 600 hairpin bends along the route, if you're not super comfortable behind the wheel you might prefer to take part in a guided tour.

Apart from active LED headlights, the Passat also has a special reflector that lights up the inside of the corner prominently, making even hairpin bends safer.

There's a refreshing lack of steering kick, rattle or any interference whatsoever even in the most heavily corrugated hairpin bends, which is something some German sports sedans fail to achieve.

The tightly winding, snow - covered hairpin bends of the Flüela Pass are the ideal setting for the rear - wheel - oriented xDrive all - wheel drive.

We leave Písek by way of nasty hairpin bends and bicycle between the Otava and the Vltava rivers, which join in the Orlík reservoir, over a hilltop with villages.

After a few more hairpin bends the road ends in Trigrad.

The road curved into hairpin bends, running parallel to the whitewater river, until after another hour, we arrived at Shatili, the largest settlement in Khevsureti.

Houses are built from the shoreline about ten hairpin bends deep up the mountain and there are thousands of them.

Even though I love road trips, in Switzerland I'd much prefer to avoid hairpin bends and instead relax and look out of a train window.

As you ascend from Kalka, you'll find yourself viewing the same point several times, but each time passing by a little higher up, on a tortuous route that winds in hairpin bends from one side of the valley and back upon itself again and again, until finally cresting and into the next valley.

Occasionally, however, field lines break and the loose ends reconnect with the oppositely directed ones to create two new field lines with hairpin bends.

Power sliding round tight hairpin bends with a pumping sound track was such a new experience.

The original Long Tom Pass was a treacherous one, steep hairpin bends and hair - raising drops.

Thirteen sharp hairpin bends, flanked by two dramatic cascading waterfalls and a sweeping view of the Nærødalen valley below, produce gasps from the passengers.

The Brecon Canal is actually very shallow and has twisty turns and hairpin bends which probably bring your average speed down to 1 mph!

The dizzying descent has hairpin bends on narrow, bad roads.

Coming up to another series of hairpin bends, the F430 turns in as eagerly as a kid choosing candy.

It is a gravel pass, easy to drive, apart from more than a few hairpin bends, and... more information

Then, after 550 miles of running, came the hairpin bend northward — the bend which joins the Flaminian and the Cassian ways.

When the two approached the hairpin bend at the Villa Riviera Hotel, Depailler suddenly cut in front of Hunt, braking hard and far too early.

The eagle - eyed will spot a visual clue in the first half of the narrative that anticipates the hairpin bend it takes in the second.

As the hairpin bend unwinds, you start squeezing the throttle, and the engine note rises from a creamy bass growl to a screaming contralto howl, underlaid by an increasingly fussy backbeat of cams and valve gear.

Since 1958, Land Rovers have travelled from Maneybhanjang to Sandakphu, a 31 km route defined by extremely challenging terrain with steep gradients and hairpin bends.

In addition to the usual data (MPG, range, air temperature, etc.), the driver's display can indicate which of the six gears is engaged — useful information as we flick the shifter paddles on the steering wheel in those hairpin bends.

Either four - cylinder or six, BMW's turbocharged engines muster torque from low speeds, whether for relaxed touring or powering hard out of hairpin bends.

As such, the approximately five - meter long (16.4 ft) Sedan is much more agile in urban traffic, on tight hairpin bends and while parking.

To reach there we've scaled Bainskloof pass by car, the hairpin bends and intense mountain views a consistent reminder of the scale of work that must have gone into creating the pass.

After 30 minutes, the road begins to wind quite considerably, with plenty of hairpin bends.

After our descent to a river follows the inevitable climb with hairpin bends.

The views out over the Wartrail Valley are superlative, the hairpin bends alarming, and the going slow.

On the way to Ronda we'd passed the hairpin bends through the Sierra de las Nieves National Park.

The route is a series of twists, turns and hairpin bends, to either side impenetrable forest, its river rendered almost invisible by the density of ancient Yellowood trees and mossy old man's beard.

To get to the top of the mountain, we drive up behind the village through a series of hairpin bends to the Stegastein viewpoint overlooking Aurlandsfjord.

Dense jungles, brooding mountains, endless waterways, towering cliffs, hairpin bends: the potential for adrenalin - fuelled adventure is limitless in Vietnam.

Translated, it means «The Serpent» which is fitting given the 26 hairpin bends and spiral bridge that make up the six - mile ascent.