One of my favourite stories from earlier this year. This has to be one of the most amazing roads in the world!

Imagine you're standing on the side of an empty desert road in an enormous open valley. You're surrounded by a flat bed of scorched earth, spotted with chalky rocks and shrivelled-up, emaciated shrubs; stretching as far as the eye can see. At the edge of the barren rock bed, a ring of towering mountains loom in ...