5 mo. ago • 97%

Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall

www.bbc.com Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall

A hiker posted a video showing the water flow of the fall was coming from a pipe built into the rock face.

A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself.

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China's tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

The clip has been liked more than 70,000 times since it was first posted on Monday. Operators of the Yuntai tourism park said that they made the "small enhancement" during the dry season so visitors would feel that their trip had been worthwhile.

"The one about how I went through all the hardship to the source of Yuntai Waterfall only to see a pipe," the caption of the video posted by user "Farisvov" reads.

165

165 comments

Fake nature is the pinnacle of capitalism. Yes I include China

177
Someone's gonna get jailed for revealing state secrets and embarrassing the party.

84
This doesn't seem all that awful to me. The waterfall isn't fake, it's just something they do in the dry season so visitors don't feel like they wasted a trip. It's not the choice I would make if I were running the park, but it doesn't seem that bad to me.

44
When they wrote this "promted explanation from the water body itself" I thought it was some funny wording for a water agency or sth, not that they'd actually attempt to word their answer as if it's from the waterfall itself, lol.

The park later posted on behalf of the waterfall saying, "I didn't expect to meet everyone this way". "As a seasonal scenery I can't guarantee that I will be in my most beautiful form everytime you come to see me," it adds. "I made a small enhancement during the dry season only so I would look my best to meet my friends."

43
Ha! Actually fake and gay!

Waterfalls cause rainbows.

32
I went to Niagara Falls last year and I was disappointed to find out that they could control the flow or even stop the flow of water going down the falls and sometimes did so in winter. But they also didn't make a secret of it.

26
Everything in china is fake part 3000

26
Damn son, even waterfalls in China are fake? What isn't fake in China?!

19
Now that we know how to build a water fall from scratch, it's just a matter of time until the world record of the highest water fall will be in Saudi Arabia or Quatar...

17
Not surprising, everything is fake in China. Have even seen China using green paint on plants and mountains...

https://youtu.be/Cvc7VymDa4c https://youtu.be/AynNsPs9i80

16
Farisov who? We, the chinese government, have never heard of, not has there every been a user by the name of Farisov... Please go on about your day.

14
This was not on my bingo card.

12
But the TOURISM!

8
Seems like that one youtube channel won the recent algorithm lottery.

8
So Chinese!

7
I didn’t think I could hate China more. /s

Thanks BBC

4
There's a whole series on YouTube about how China fakes everything.

4
People will really jump on any random thing to bash China. I'll give kudos to British state media that this constant deluge of insignificant nonsense makes it really hard to have any discussion about China that's based on like, broad trends in history or economics.

Parks do water management. At Niagra Falls, for example, much of the water is used for power generation at night, but during the day more of it goes over the falls for the benefit of tourists. You've probably never heard about it, because it doesn't matter. At all.

But make it about another tribe, about the outgroup, and suddenly it's the most important thing in the world and proves everything we always suspected and blah blah blah. Go volunteer at your local park.

-14

You've viewed 165 comments.