Wish Sticks Wedged Between Rock Strata In China

It looked as if the thousands of little sticks that were precisely cut and wedged into gaps between the strata of a rock outcrop were holding up the cliff above. When Chinese visitors come to Zhangjiajie in Wulingyuan in the north of Hunan province they break of branches from nearby trees, reduce them to sticks, and put them vertically in the otherwise vacant areas between rock slabs in the sides of accessible outcrops. But before they wedge the stick in they do something else:

They make a wish.

It is believed that for as long at the stick remains upright and positioned between the rock strata, the wish will come true.