China’s national highways have been turned into virtual parking lots with the onset of the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day holidays. For the first time in a decade, all tolls are being waved, causing maddening amounts of congestion.

The eight-day Golden Week started Sunday, and drivers report that they are traveling three miles an hour at times on 24 motorways across 16 provinces. Thirteen percent more people are hitting the roads as a result.

Photos posted on the microblog Sina Weibo show people doing anything they can to pass the time. Stretching, talking a walk, doing pushups or even playing tennis!

The Shanghai Morning Post reported it took one motorist over ten hours to drive 186 miles.

The British newspaper The Telegraph reported that in 2010, the longest traffic jam ever stretched 60 miles with people leaving from Beijing to Inner Mongolia. It reported that motorists traveled a mere two miles a day during the height of that jam.

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