Imagine driving from Mombasa to Voi on a straight, veeeery, straight road

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[SIZE=6]The Long and Lonely Eyre Highway: Australia’s Longest Straight Road[/SIZE]
Kaushik Thursday, November 27, 20145 comments
Imagine a drive, a thousand miles long with no turns or bends, across a vast featureless plain with repetitive landscape, and hundreds of kilometers between towns and service stations. That’s Eyre Highway, the road that connects Western Australia to Southern Australia via the Nullarbor Plain, a flat and treeless, giant bed of limestone 200,000 square kilometres in area. With no hills or lakes to obstruct, the highway was laid down as a straight road that runs for 1,675 km from Port Augusta in the east to Norseman in the west, and includes what is said to be the longest straight stretch of road in the world Australia: 145.6 kilometres, between the small roadhouse communities of Balladonia and Caiguna (the longest straight road in the world is Highway 10 in Saudi Arabia, which is 162 miles long).

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A set of road signs just west of the Nullarbor Roadhouse, South Australia, warning of camels, wombats and kangaroos crossing the Eyre Highway for the next 96 km in a westerly direction. [I]Photo credit[/I]

Bunda Cliffs, which drop vertically for 100 metres or more off the plain into the Southern Ocean waters of the Great Australian Bight. You will also encounter the Dingo fence, claimed to be the longest fence in the world, that runs beside the Eyre Highway for a short distance. Other places of interest along the way include Newman and Afghan Rocks near Balladonia, the Eyre Bird Observatory, the famous Cocklebiddy Cave, the view from Madora Pass, whale watching at the head of the bight, several sink holes and blowhole, to mention just a few.

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This is how Eyre Highway looks, for most of the distance. Photo credit

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Many consider crossing the Nullarbor Plain a long and boring trek that should be travelled as quickly as possible. Photo credit

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Eastern end of the Nullarbor Plain. Photo credit

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The 90 Mile Straight. Photo credit

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This part of the highway is also used by the Royal Flying Doctor Service as an emergency runway. Photo credit

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A section of the Eyre Highway as viewed from an airplane. Photo credit

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Mundrabilla Roadhouse, a typical Nullarbor roadhouse. Photo credit

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An occasional bend on encounters along the way. Photo credit

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The spectacular Bunda Cliff (more pictures here). Photo credit

Sources: Wikipedia / Mike on Bike / www.cmca.net.au

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hapo ukiweka cruise control utalala on the wheel

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It is also one of the most dangerous roads in the world

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Self driving cars must love this road.
Humans on the other hand will either go too fast or fall asleep on the wheel.
Speed limit ni ngapi ?

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Ile movie inaiwa wolf creek wali shoot iyo barabara

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whats the speed limits here. I prefer such to winding roads mnafungiana na malori.

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Hapa sishuki 200kph

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With Kenyan motorists wreckless driving, then be assured of collecting crashed cars and lost lives everyday.

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Kivipi?

Hiyo inahitaji 160 - 200kph. That way I can stay awake. Why would there be a speed limit on such a beauty?

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Motorists generally avoid this road. Apart from cheki maneno adventurers, It is mostly used by long distance haulers. Like these below… [ATTACH=full]91578[/ATTACH]
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I hate long distance driving. Anything over 300km is torture to me.

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Had the chance to drive on Highway 10, pedal to the floor all through.

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roadi kama hizi ndio zinakuanga na cannibals

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It is the monotony of driving on such a road that kills. you easily fall asleep on the wheel and dont notice the vehicle veering of the road. Then you got those massive road trains that distabilise your vehicle as you pass each other,they create wind patterns around them which get your car fishtailing and skidding of the road mkipitana. Worse,emergency services kitambo zikufikie you probably succumbed to your injuries

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[SIZE=5]Too straight , I need some curves to keep me awake kaw hii nita lala ![/SIZE]

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Niliona wakitest Bentley continental huko. Nadhani kuna stretch yake yenye haina speed limit. Like 80% of it.

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Real men love curves

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Nayo ile ngamia mtakutana nayo ikienda zero itakutwa ndani ya gari kama zile ng’ombe na Probox.

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:smiley:

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the longest-ish boring-est video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPkYi-IVOs

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