The wall know to chat in Australia

If you stand next to the wall of Barossa dam to talk, even to a small whisper, anyone who stood at the other side can easily be heard despite the distance almost 140 meters.

Australia is not only famous as the hometown of pocket mice, it is but also known for interesting wonder works. One of them is the "The Wall knows to whisper" of Barossa dam.

When it was built over 100 years ago, no one thought that the dam which is located in the Barossa Valley can become an architecture masterpiece and popular destination for tourists. Because the visitors just want to discover the strange wall: when standing on this side, you can clearly hear the conversations of people standing on the other side. Especially the distance of the two sides is 140 meters but the wall can transmit sound accurately and obviously. The sound is not affected by the wind outside, the sound of water slapping the other side of the wall or heavy rain as pouring.

The wall knows to talk of Barossa dam is 36 meters. Picture: Amusing.

Thanks to the ability to "walls have ears", the wall is 36 meters long of Barossa dam is known as the "Wall know to whisper". Many visitors when witnessing the feeling of eavesdropping has dubbed this is the wall knowing to chat.

The ability to chat of the wall was discovered by chance. According to the local people in the process of building a group of workers were complaining to each other about wages and remuneration from the employer. They couldn’t image that those words were heard by people in the other side of the wall despite the direction almost hundred meters.

To visit the wall, tourists can contemplate the landscape in here from the top, Picture: Amusing.

Rumors of said wall have spread quickly. It can be beyond the beautiful Barossa Valley and transmitted around the country and the world. Many superstitious people said that this is the demon wall and invented the story mysterious and make it more interesting.

However, the secret fact on the wall quickly detected. Due to the parabolic shape design and the hard and curved wall surface, it can transmit sound from this side to other sides that it was not hampered. That's why when standing, you can still hear people in the other side talking as if they are near.

Barossa dam was built from 1899 to 1902, 400 male workers needed to complete the job. This concrete dam provided water with some areas in southern of Australia. When they built, it was recognized as one of the greatest technical works. In addition, thanks to the design of the dome-shaped walls, this dame can against water capacity perfectly - this is a different innovation were considered as an intelligent idea and pay great attention to the science of the world.

Overview of the work when building,  Picture: Amusing.

The direction to come with the wall know to talk: Barossa dam is located on Barossa valley in Southern of Australia. It is far from the central of Adelaide city about 60 km in the northeast. For foreigners which want to come to visit this place, you can take off the airport below: Singapore Airlines,Air New Zealand, Malaysia Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, AirAsia X,Virgin Australia and to the international airport Adelaide. From the airport, you can catch a taxi and come to Barossa valley. The time of travelling takes 1 hour.