13. The longest traffic jam in history
Drivers experience a 12-day traffic on an expressway.
Vehicles queue at a checkpoint on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway as shown in an aerial footage of the 62-mile traffic jam that lasted over 12 days, Mirrors reported. This happened to the poor folks attempting to traverse the Beijing-Tibet expressways. Northern China, including Beijing, was even put into a smog alert because over 750 million vehicles went on a holiday during the Golden Week. Starving drivers who got stuck in the traffic had to pay ripped off prices for goods—2 yuan ($0.3) for an egg, 3 yuan ($0.4) for a cup of water, and $8 for a cigarette packet.
