Featured Image Credit: Youtube/Drew Binsky
Topics: Travel, YouTube, China, World News
Joe Harker
A travel YouTuber who went to China visited the 'world's narrowest city', where thousands of people live in a narrow valley right next to a river.
Travel guy Drew Binsky says he's been to every single country in the world and recently, he's been to a remote part of China called Yanjin County, which has gained a following on the internet for how narrow it is.
He got the idea to visit from another travel YouTuber, Yan, who had previously made her own video showing people around Yanjin and meeting the people who live there.
She'd gone to see the sights and meet the people in the narrow city last year, and served as Drew's guide and translator for his own trip.
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In his video from two days ago, the YouTuber said he was there to see the city that faces 'the constant threat of floods and earthquakes', and was 'sitting on the edge of disaster' as well as the 'constant threat of catastrophe' due to the threat of floods and earthquakes.
Yanjin is situated in a narrow valley with the Heng River running through it and the buildings are right upon the shore, with many of them being built upon stilts in an attempt to protect from the threat of flooding.
Those which aren't built on stilts are often built into the cliffside of the valley,
Some of the people Yan met in her video told her that the area would be flooded 'almost every year' and there would be major accidents as a result of it.
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They told her that July and August were the months where flooding usually happened, and there could also be landslides too.
When she asked them how they deal with the regular danger, they told her 'you'll get used to it'.
Despite living under the threat of regular flooding, the people Drew and Yan met on their travels there were all rather friendly and took the perils of the local geography in their stride - though one person said that the most 'inconvenient' part was the area was 'badly connected' to other parts of China.
During Drew's journey, he was also invited for tea by a guy who also wanted to show the YouTubers round his house and then take them up for a walk up the cliffs.
The cliff walk included going up a narrow path cut into the cliffside with a sheer drop on one side, where at times the rocky overhang was so much that Drew had to crouch to get through.
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He was also stopped by police and thought he was in trouble for flying a drone without permission, but it turned out they actually wanted to tell him some of the better spots to film from.
This place is likely to lose its reputation as the 'world's narrowest city' if Saudi Arabia ever gets round to building that gargantuan monstrosity they call 'The Line'.