…and lived to tell the tale. 😉
This is Kellie’s Castle. It’s located in Batu Gajah in Perak (about 20 minutes from Ipoh) and it was built by a Scottish rubber and tin tycoon over a century ago. The construction of the castle never completed.
It’s quite a high structure as you can see from this picture. Here’s a vertigo inducing picture from the very top of Kellie’s Castle:
I strongly recommend you do not attempt to jump off unless you are decked out in BASE jumping gear. However, if you want to do the “Goodbye, cruel world!” thing, you can actually scare the crap out of a lot of people by jumping from the other side of the castle and onto a ledge.
You have to be quite accurate though coz if you miss the ledge, there’s nothing to stop you from really plummeting down. Heh.
I also did the Leap of Faith in Sunway Lost World of Tambun. This is quite a quirky experience – you wear a harness that connects to rope and it’s basically a controlled fall.
The interesting bit about this is that it’s purely manual. This literally puts the man in manual as there are two people down there to act as counter-weights as you jump off.
You climb up several ladders secured to the side of the limestone cliff and appear on a metal ledge 75 feet up. It actually takes three people (the third is a fail safe) to slow down your descent and your velocity actually lifts the two people down there as you stop in mid-air.
I wasn’t wearing anything under those board shorts and I highly recommend you do if you value your family jewels. 😉
r u in ipoh now? batu gajah my hometown.
Wait, Huai Bin with a helmet?
Impossible, you have more balls than that haha
the last line got me.
I was there once…but don;t ask me to jump. I’ve suddenly developed this fear for heights. Don’t ask me why6 – old age perhaps. Would have cold feet just looking down from the 1st floor… Sighhhh!!!!!!
fuck, that video scares me. and yes, please protect ur jewels. lol
i once jumped off from a 5 storey high waterfall. and since then i have developed a Acrophobia =.=
i would love to do bungy jump one fine day, together with the boyf, at least i have someone to hold on tight while jumping off. LOL
NAISE. u scared the hell out of me.
i have fear of heights.. i think.. but i’d love to bungee jump one day! 😀
I don’t have a fear of heights but I really don’t know if I’m able to jump off the castle. I’ll be weak at my knees. >.< Now that you've been there, is it true that Mr. Smith's ghost is the unseen resident of Kellie's Castle?
this is actually rather funny. but i love your courage to just go out and do it! awesomeness bro
It looks like fun!!!!
Ooo…I’ll like to try the jumps too. I have a love for heights and jumps:D