A shot of fresh air: C’mon, let’s take a walk

El Caminito del Rey (The King’s Pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Alora in Málaga, Spain. The walkway has gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is only one meter in width above a 700-meter fall, and over time it has also lost its handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years. After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous tourists still find their way onto the walkway. The view and the music are almost like being in a video game … very cool!

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Snitched from Walk This Way.