Modern-day cave people

The Miao Room in China is considered to be the world’s second largest cave room, big enough to fit 22 football fields.

However, even though it doesn’t hold so many football fields, it is home to a basketball court, a primary school and twenty-one families of Chinese people which inhabit bamboo roofless houses.

The families first moved under the roof of the cave because, according to the elders, the spring was a reliable source of water.

Probably today they don’t have to live in the cave anymore but they stay there anyway, mostly because the cave-village receives so many visitors each week that the government now pays the ‘cave people’ to stay put.