Imagine living on a steep mountain top, 1,700 m high and the village entrance is a single path of 720 steps.
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| This has been the life of residents in Quoc Luong village, Ha Nam province, China for generations. |
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| Despite the difficult terrain, the villagers have remained here for the past six centuries. They dug tunnels through the mountains with their bare hands to maintain their connection with the outside world. |
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| The village is located on the Thai Hanh mountain and has been home to a number of households for hundreds of years. In the late 1960s, to improve their lives, 13 villagers decided to dig a tunnel through the mountain. |
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| Village chief Shen Mingxin took the lead in digging the tunnel and sold all his goats to buy hammers and crowbars. The tunnel was 1,250 meters long and 4 meters wide and opened in 1972. |
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| Before that, villagers wanted to contact the outside world had to go through 720 steep steps carved into the cliff. Quoc Luong village remained a mystery to the world until explorers came here. |
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| Today, the world’s most isolated village has 83 households and a population of 329. The mountain tunnel, called the “Cliff Corridor,” is large enough to accommodate trucks. 4,000 hammers and 12 tons of drill bits were used to dig this historic tunnel. |
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| The People’s Daily has dubbed Guoliang “China’s most dangerous village.” Local authorities are concerned that if too many tourists come here, the tunnel will become blocked and the consequences will be difficult to resolve. |
According to Daily Mail
