The World’s First Underground Trampoline
Forget bouncing high into the sky. How would you like to bounce below the Earth?
It’s happening at the world’s first underground trampoline park, which opened earlier this month inside a 176-year-old abandoned mine deep in the Llechwedd slate caverns of Wales.
It’s called Bounce Below and consists of more than 10,000 square feet of bouncy trampoline nets set up in the belly of a 200-foot cavern. The cavern is twice the size of St. Paul’s Cathedral. There are three levels to jump on — 20 feet up, 60 feet up, and 180 feet up from the cavern bottom. It’s an underground playground as well, complete with chutes, ladders, and slides. One slide is 60 feet long. Oh, and a technicolored light display illuminates it all.
“It’s a one-hour activity where customers get dressed up in a cotton overall and given a helmet, they then jump on a train and travel inside the mountain,’’ Owner Sean Taylor told the Daily Mail.
“It is scary at first, but then it’s really cool,’’ said Cian Williams in a cbsnews.com report.
He was one of the first kids to experience the trampoline. You must be 7 years old to bounce.
Zoe from the UK was there over the weekend and posted this pic on Twitter:
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Another woman, who goes by jerokee85 on Instagram, posted this pic, writing, “This was almost too much childish fun to handle!’’
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Underground zip lines are planned for the park later in 2014.
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