China’s Dark Tourism Trend Has Travellers Paying To Experience Typhoons And Flash Floods

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What if your next holiday involved being knocked off your feet by a flash flood, battling typhoon-force winds and getting drenched in torrential rain? For a growing number of travellers in China, this is no holiday nightmare, in fact, this is what they crave for. It is the whole point of the trip.

China’s latest travel trend is seeing young tourists pay to experience simulated natural disasters, turning terrifying weather conditions into an unusual adventure. All the buzz and trend is coming straight from Lvxing Base, an immersive disaster simulation facility in Hangzhou, eastern China, where visitors can experience what it feels like to be caught in extreme weather, without facing the unpredictability of an actual natural disaster.

Opened in 2024, Lvxing Base recreates dangerous situations such as typhoons, torrential rain and sudden flash floods. The facility can simulate winds reaching speeds of up to 165 kmph, while its flood scenarios unleash hundreds of tonnes of water to recreate the force of a rapidly rising torrent. And no, visitors are not simply standing behind a glass screen watching a disaster unfold. They get to experience the force of the elements themselves, under controlled conditions and…

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