The world’s biggest underground trampoline,
installed in a huge slate cavern in North Wales, will open for
locals and tourists alike on 4 July 2014.
Bounce Below features
three huge trampolines that are hung in the old slate cavern at
varying levels, they are linked together by 60ft slides.
Visitors
are taken to the impressive 100 x 60 foot cavern by an old mining
train and kitted out in special overalls and a helmet before being
let loose in the caves to bounce, climb and slide in the most
unique setting. The walls are kitted out with technicoloured
lights which illuminate the subterranean background with vibrant
colours.
The LEDs also reveal the beauty of the
underground cavern, which was dug out by hand for 4500 hours to
remove 500 tons of rubble in a process akin to the slate mining
that took place there.
Bounce Below is part of the
Zip World group that won international acclaim last March when
they installed a pair of mile’8 long zip lines at Zip World
Velocity, that sees riders fly through the skies at over 100mph,
500ft in the air.
Bounce Below is located at the
world’s largest zip lining zone, Zip World Titan site, near the
historic town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, the adventure attraction is
set to help breathe new life into an ex-mining town that has
suffered from unemployment in recent years.
Local
entrepreneur, Sean Taylor, wanted to help bring more visitors to
the area by creating something you can only find in Wales.
At the site is the Slate Caverns which offers tours
500 feet underground to discover the dangerous mining past of
these mysterious 170 year old caverns. A new ‘Deep Mine’ tour was
unveiled in April 2014 including caverns which had not been seen
for decades.
Bounce Below will open on 4
July 2014, tickets will cost £15 per person (introductory rate).
Trampoline,
Wales
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