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The road shown here is the Guoliang Tunnel in Taihang
mountains (China). It has been built by villagers themselves, which is
an inspiring story in itself:
"Before 1972, the path chiseled into the rock used to be the only access
linking the village with the outside world. Then the villagers decided
to dig a tunnel through the rocky cliff.
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Led by Shen Mingxin, head of the village, they sold goats and herbs to
buy hammers and steel tools. Thirteen strong villagers began the
project.
It took them five years to finish the 1,200-metre-long tunnel which is
about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the villagers even gave
their lives to it. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic."
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The wall of the tunnel is uneven and there are more than 30 "windows" of
different sizes and shapes.
Some windows are round and some are square, and they range from dozens
of metres long to standard-window-size.
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It is frightening to look down from the windows, where strange rocks
hanging form the sheer cliff above and a seemingly bottomless pit lying
below.
A village, opposite the tunnel, appears to hang on the precipice.
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