Caminito del Rey, Spain: World's scariest footpath reopens in March

Spain's three kilometre-long cliff-side path, built 100 metres above the Desfiladero del los Gaitanes gorge, was closed in 2001 following five deaths in 1999 and 2000.

Daredevil tourists continued to try their luck along it however, prompting local officials to launch a $A3.1 million scheme ten years ago to renovate it.

Now that a glass floor has been installed and the final planks laid, the walk will reopen to the public during Holy Week, which begins on March 29, according to Elías Bendodo, the president of the Diputación Provincial de Málaga.

John Kramer, a local who walked the path in April 2013, remembers it being "completely insane".

"One of the most worrying things on the day [of my previous walk], was the safety cable had snapped a month previously - an Italian climber fell over 80m and miraculously, not only survived, but walked away unscathed. Needless to say, it didn't inspire much confidence!"

He is so sure that the new path is safer however, that he intends to take his family along with him to try it.