Beiyi Highway (Nine Turns Eighteen Bends)

Yilan län · Taiwan · Road

On the death road between Taipei and Yilan, drivers scattered spirit money from their windows to appease the crash victims' ghosts in the nine turns and eighteen bends.

The Beiyi mountain highway between Taipei and Yilan was for decades Taiwan's most feared stretch of road, crowned by the infamous serpentine section of "nine turns and eighteen bends". Accidents were so frequent that it was called the death road, and professional drivers made a habit of throwing bundles of spirit money out of the window in the bends – an offering to the ghosts of the crashed so they would not drag more down with them. Tales are told of hitchhiking figures dissolving in the back seat, of white shapes in the headlights, and of the mountain sprite moshenzai luring travellers into the fog. The road is now widened and far safer, but older drivers remember when the verges lay white with offering paper.

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Where is Beiyi Highway (Nine Turns Eighteen Bends) located?

Beiyi Highway (Nine Turns Eighteen Bends) is in Yilan län, Taiwan.

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