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Baldwin Street is the steepest street in the world and a real tourist attraction

Baldwin Street - the steepest street in the world

Baldwin Street in New Zealand is the steepest street in the world, making it a real tourist attraction. For some, it is enough to walk on it, others try to cycle over it, and it has also become a grateful target for photographers and adrenaline junkies. What kind of slope does it have, you ask? You don't want to know!

On Baldwin Street in New Zealand the world stood up. That's it the steepest street in the world. It is located in the city Dunedin and he has just 35% incline!

Baldwin Street is so steep you almost need mountaineering gear to climb it!
Baldwin Street is so steep you almost need mountaineering gear to climb it!

Good thing she owes everything 359 meters.


And if we have it with us run to the top of Planica (on the ski jump of the Gorišek brothers, the slope is even worse, even via 42 %), and the New Zealanders have a run to the top of Baldwin Street (these Baldwin Street Gutbuster).

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Baldwin Street signed up as well into the Guinness Book of Records (as the steepest street in the world), and on the ground it has concrete and not tar, as it could melt in the heat and slide down the slope. She is a grateful target for photographers, because she creates optical illusions (submersible houses), cyclists and adrenaline junkies, who challenge fate with daring descents.

However, it is not so steep that you would need mountaineering equipment to climb to the top.

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