This is Caminito del Rey.
El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain.
The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state. It is one meter (3 ft) in width, and is over 700 feet (200 m) above the river. Nearly all of the path has no handrail. Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall.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 into the walkway.
You know, I was relatively okay for the first part where the left side of the trail dropped off, but when the right side of the trail opened up, that's when I started getting the heebie-jeebies. Why is that, I wonder? (via J-Walk)
And here is a cute Flash game called Chasm that appears to be based upon the Caminito del Rey. You are charged with diverting the water through a Rube Goldbergian series of sluices, gates and waterwheels to bring water and electricity to your hometown of Chasmton.. I gave up after half an hour of fruitless effort, but maybe you'll do better.
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