Human-Powered Ferris Wheels in Myanmar

You have to see it to believe it.” [start at the 18:07 mark]

In a recent episode of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, Bourdain and his crew visited Myanmar and discovered a local street fair with several human-powered Ferris wheels. Bourdain says it’s an “absolutely insanely dangerous closely choreographed process” and, while tempted, turned down an opportunity to ride it, joking, “CNN host implicated in death of four under-aged carnies.”

Human-powered Ferris Wheel

video via albert naing

Rusty Blazenhoff
Rusty Blazenhoff