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    Boring life?

    Looking for excitement beyond the next Chang?

    Try an indoor beach, in Japan...






    ...or the Grand Canyon Skywalk?








    Las Vegas?










    Anyone for Tennis?








    Too tame? - ok let's try a bit of mountain climbing...


















    If that's too slow, on yer bike!








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    i feel sick.

    i hate heights ever so much.

    some of them are photoshpped but nevertheless.

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    They arrived as a powerpoint.

    How can you tell which ones are photoshopped? They'd get past me easy unless it was obvious like three eyes or a second head.

    Btw found the right board now, so would you kindly move the two Venice pictorials here?
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    This heights thing... just viewing those pics gives me the willies.

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    I hate heights.

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    The first lot of pics look like concept drawings. The ones on the mountain were in another thread last year.

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    Wicked pics! I'd like to try some of those. Maybe not so much the biking up that high. I'm afraid of heights to, but challenging my fears is great fun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by keda View Post
    Too tame? - ok let's try a bit of mountain climbing...














    this is just outside Xi'an in China. And no, those planks stretching over are not photoshopped

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    The high tennis court is photoshopped - it is the helipad on that new hotel in Dubai -
    Coincidence or what !
    As I was looking at the pic there was an advert on TV for the hotel with a heli landing on it !!!

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    Have they been photochopped or not?

    This one I've been on the mini roller coaster round the outside and the vertical/reverse bungi chair ride on the spike in the middle. The rest is photochopped. (the see saw bit)



    And I've watched a show on these crazy bastards so I know this ones true.








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    Amazes me how and also why anyone would want to put those planks and chains up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Happyman View Post
    The high tennis court is photoshopped - it is the helipad on that new hotel in Dubai -
    Coincidence or what !
    As I was looking at the pic there was an advert on TV for the hotel with a heli landing on it !!!
    Could be, I also recall a helipad and anyway it would be too windy up at that height for tennis.

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    I can fly airplanes upside down all day long, but put me at the edge of a tall building and I want to blow chunks...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rural Surin
    This heights thing... just viewing those pics gives me the willies.
    Yea me too. That empty feeling when your knackers feel like they are dropping through your legs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon View Post
    i feel sick.

    i hate heights ever so much.
    When I saw these pics, I felt a twinge in my stomach.

    It's weird how a photograph can make you feel. Even photoshopped.

    Anyway, good pics.

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    Great thread theme great pics.

    Glad to see that I'm not alone in my problems with heights.

    The most stupid thing that ever happened to me in this regard was while snorkelling over a most beautiful reef in the Philippines. 5 to 10 meters deep water was no problem but then I came to the border when the seabottom dropped. The ground could no longer be seen, only dark blue. At that place I missed some railing to hold on to. There was a strong fear of dropping into the void. Ridiculous but quite real, I had to swim back to the shallows.
    "don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence"

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    Where is BobsKnob....he loves this kinda stuff.

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    I stick to the indoor beach myself!

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    Caminito del Rey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's little pathway) is a walkway or via ferrata, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to Camino del Rey.
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    [at]Takeovers: I've had exactly the same experience on Koh Tao around shark bay. I didnt' really mind the sharks while snorkelling out to about 15-20 meter deep water. But when the underwater cliff suddenly dropped down to unknown, dark blue depths and I saw the sharks silhouettes a bit further out I panicked and quickly swam back. Was quite real that fear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by plorf
    [at]Takeovers: I've had exactly the same experience on Koh Tao around shark bay.
    Didn't see the sharks at Koh Tao. Others in the dive group saw some but not me.

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    They weren't huge, 1.5m I'd guess, but still impressive if you're out snorkelling alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TizMe View Post


    Caminito del Rey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's little pathway) is a walkway or via ferrata, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. The name is often shortened to Camino del Rey.
    WOW! that looks fecking awsome. could do with some repair though. i am suprised it hasnt been closed for safety reasons



    Here is the Hua Shan hiking trail just outside Xi'an in China




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    Camino del Rey is "officialy banned ' buut you can still enter near railway tunnels if suicidal I did it in 1980s and it was terrifying and yet very satisfying a unique hike Nearby in Antequera is a strange Mt called the Indian as the entire Mt side looks like a n American chief completw with headress best seen coming fro Sevilla direction

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    Quote Originally Posted by plorf View Post
    [at]Takeovers: I've had exactly the same experience on Koh Tao around shark bay. I didnt' really mind the sharks while snorkelling out to about 15-20 meter deep water. But when the underwater cliff suddenly dropped down to unknown, dark blue depths and I saw the sharks silhouettes a bit further out I panicked and quickly swam back. Was quite real that fear.

    Strange, that...happened to me too, whereas I was sure I would not be scared.
    Agraphobia, I guess.

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