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| Villagers Must Take This Death Ladder to Get to Their Village - Atuleer Village |
Villagers Must Take This Death Ladder to Get to Their Village - Atuleer Village
It takes about 2 to 4 hours each way to conquer this 800-meter-high cliff which has become a daily routine for residents living in Atuleer village, Sian province, while for school-age children, they must do the activity of climbing the death ladder every week Because the journey is very difficult, they have to stay in the school dormitory and then go back to their respective homes every weekend, even some of them just go home every year. two weeks.
Nevertheless, they still have to travel quite a long journey of two to four hours for the villagers of Atuleer who live on the top of the hill up and down the extreme stairs is a common thing Atuleer village has been 200 years old so that the ability to go up and down the stairs has been well mastered from generation to generation in the midst of the extreme road they have to take, sometimes villagers have to go up and down the sky stairs while carrying agricultural produce to be sold in the nearest market which is quite far away.
Similarly, when returning home They spend between two and four hours climbing the steep staircase Walkway before getting to his home, villagers say that their ancestors chose the remote location in an attempt to avoid war or tribal conflict, and for them the remote village that had to be conquered with great guts was a precious heritage that had to be well guarded because it never occurred to them to inhabit other places, generally residents The village supports themselves by raising livestock as well as growing crops such as maize or potatoes but unfortunately they cannot get most of their produce under the cliff which thus they cannot make much money selling it.
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| Villagers Must Take This Death Ladder to Get to Their Village - Atuleer Village |
In 2016, several dramatic photos emerged that recorded school children descending a steep cliff through rattan stairs that looked fragile and unstable, the stairs were attached to the cliff wall that was almost perpendicular and terrible, the photo then went viral so that the lives of villagers or the remote neck at the top of the hill began to be exposed to the outside world, especially because the stairs looked terrible as the only road used daily.
After being famous and starting to be widely reported in recent years, the local government then replaced simple stairs made by residents with steel stairs equipped with handrails so as to shorten their travel time because the stairs look dramatic and become the hallmark of the village. Sinhua news agency said that in recent years the village or neck has become a tourist attraction, even now as many as 84 families in the village or learn have been willing to They left their sacred steps 75 KM away to settle in an apartment block adjacent to the city center Zauju Regency The beauty of most of the residents is part of a government program to eradicate poverty However, not all residents of Atuleer village are willing to be relocated because about 30 families plan to remain on the hilltop in order to preserve the heritage of their ancestors.