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The world's longest escalator: 688 meters in length, built on a mountain

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The world's longest escalator: 688 meters in length, built on a mountain

Enshi Grand Canyon has the name of "the world's most beautiful Grand Canyon", where the canyon is green and majestic, and the world's longest hand elevator built here, without climbing can easily enjoy the charming scenery of the Grand Canyon, more convenient to the tourists who are tired all the way to save a lot of energy. Mar 12, 2024

The world's longest escalator


This escalator is the world's longest elevator, located in the Seven Star Canyon Scenic Area in Enshi Grand Canyon, Hubei Province, with a total length of 688 meters, built on a mountain and overlooking in the shape of "∑". The scenic area has the title of "the world's most beautiful Grand Canyon", with steep mountains, jagged rocks, thousands of peaks, waterfalls, sinkholes, crevices, caves, dark rivers and other geological landscapes, which attracts many tourists from home and abroad.

Since this is a minority ethnic area of the Tujia family, in order to combine with local customs and regional culture, and at the same time fully take into account the ecological protection of the environment and the harmonious design of nature, the entire elevator building is built with logs, using the unique architectural style of the Tujia family of green bricks and blue tiles, and also incorporating the traditional famous architectural elements of the Tujia hanging foot tower, echoing with the green scenery of nature, and also humane reserved animal passage, truly experiencing the perfect combination of humanity and nature.

Even though many famous mountain attractions are now built cable cars, specifically for tourists to ride and sightseeing, but the scope of the cable car view is more limited, only overlooking the only scenery of the high mountain valley, but the elevator can be viewed all the way along the scenery, very fine scenery can be seen as clouds. Not only is the length the longest, but the height also reaches 1,428 meters, which is equivalent to the height of more than 50 buildings. It can transport passengers up to more than 600,000 times throughout the year, and the amount of no hour reaches as many as 7,300 people, the world's most famous, and it has become the pride of Chinese people.

Enshi Grand Canyon winding and undulating cliffs, mountains, winding and circling walk every step is a thrill, and this longest hand elevator is definitely the canyon of the tourists' soulmate. The elevator does not need to feel fear because of its height, the whole section of the elevator is very smooth, combining beauty and safety as one, but also a kind of enjoyment of the scenery, the canyon trip is intoxicating and pleasant.

 

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