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  • Food lovers enjoy a banquet held along the edge of a cliff, at Laojun Mountain in Luoyang in China's central Henan province. The banquet was held on a mountain cliff 2,000m (6,500ft) above sea level to attract tourists. AFP
    Food lovers enjoy a banquet held along the edge of a cliff, at Laojun Mountain in Luoyang in China's central Henan province. The banquet was held on a mountain cliff 2,000m (6,500ft) above sea level to attract tourists. AFP
  • Tourists enjoy the view as they eat. AFP
    Tourists enjoy the view as they eat. AFP
  • The diners dig into their meals among the pine trees on the cliff edge. AFP
    The diners dig into their meals among the pine trees on the cliff edge. AFP
  • The 2000m-high banquet was popular. AFP
    The 2000m-high banquet was popular. AFP
  • An aerial view of the banquet. AFP
    An aerial view of the banquet. AFP
  • An aerial view of the banquet. AFP
    An aerial view of the banquet. AFP
  • Tourists squeeze by other guests to reach their seats on the cliff edge. AFP
    Tourists squeeze by other guests to reach their seats on the cliff edge. AFP
  • Staff serve food to the guests in attendance. AFP
    Staff serve food to the guests in attendance. AFP

Daredevil tourists enjoy luxury banquet... 6,500ft in the air

Visitors with a head for heights trekked up Mount Laojun in China to partake of free-flowing seafood and wine

The National

July 10, 2018

Hundreds of hardy tourists ate seafood and drank wine on the side of Mount Laojun in China some 6,500ft in the air.

The luxury repast, which was part of a summer festival in Henan Province, was held on tables set up over a six-foot-wide footpath attached to the side of the rockface.

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