No joke: on a cliff in Shiniuzhai region, Pingjiang district of China, stands A small kiosk hangs 120 meters high. It is located next to a climbing route, in a picturesque region with many hills.
The small house of 2 square meters was built in 2017 and opened a year later. The climbing route that leads to the kiosk is a via ferrata – a so-called via ferrata – which is also suitable for beginners (without fear of heights).
This shop is located in Shiniuzhai National Geological Park, Hunan, China and it is quite quaint.
The small wooden box hanging on the side of a mountain provides refreshments to climbers who need a short break in the middle of their climb.pic.twitter.com/CC9vzqNyDj“
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The route is 800 meters long in total, although you reach the kiosk after the first 120 meters. The entire route takes approximately 1.5 hours. So if you forget your water, you’ll be happy to know you can get some right from the start.
A bottle of water is free at the kiosk, other drinks and snacks can be purchased. Although these require high transportation costs every day by employees, the prices are not that high higher. They move within the same framework as the products on the ground. The opening hours are also quite regular: from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
However, kiosk staff are not always present. Only when there is a lot going on will an employee personally handle the purchases. Otherwise, visitors can pay for their items with a QR code.
The small kiosk always gets a lot of attention on social media, which attracts new tourists. However, returning to the level before the corona pandemic has not yet been achieved, director Song Huizhou told the Singaporean newspaper Straits Times.
If you want even more excitement, you can visit the Bridge of Brave People – Haohan Qiao – in the Shiniuzhai region. China’s first glass-bottom bridge opened in 2015 and was briefly the longest glass-bottom bridge in the world at 300 meters long.
It was replaced in 2016 by the 430-meter-long Zhangjiajie Bridge in the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, which is also located in Hunan Province, in the Wulingyuan area. The beauty of this area, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992, is said to have inspired director James Cameron’s film Avatar.
If you find that all too boring, you can also skip the bridges and conquer 1000 meter deep chasms with the help of a slackline:
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Source: Watson
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