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World's most exciting diving resorts (5)

People's Daily Online)  08:25, April 18, 2013  

La Quebrada, Mexico (huanqiu.com)

La Quebrada is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Acapulco, Mexico. Divers entertain tourists by jumping off two ledges on the cliff, one that is 40 feet high and the top one which is 80 feet high. The divers must calculate the right moment to jump to catch an incoming wave and avoid serious injury or death. Occasionally jumpers dive with a torch. Most of the divers come from the family of Quebrada divers. Although cliff diving at La Quebrada had taken place for many years, it was not until 1934 that the La Quebrada Cliff Divers was formed.

In one of the walls of the cliff there are a path and a restaurant where tourists gather to watch the human divers and to view pelicans diving for fish.

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(Editor:YeXin、Gao Yinan)

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