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It’s called Haohan Qiao—Brave Men’s Bridge in English. It is a glass bridge precisely glass bottomed.
The 300 long overpass in Shiniuzai National Park in Southern China has a bottom made of glass, allowing walkers to see the stomach-churning view below their feet.
The recently completed span is a glass walkway suspended on a stomach-flipping 180 meters (590 feet) above a sheer drop in China’s central Hunan Province.
Haohan Qiao, as it’s known in Chinese, is the latest in a series of glass-floored attractions to open in China and the rest of the world.
Despite its terror-inducing appearance, its creators say the bridge in the Shiniuzhai National Geological Park is perfectly safe.
Each of the glass panes is 24 millimeters thick and 25 times stronger than normal glass.
“The bridge we build will stand firm even if tourists are jumping on it,” a worker who constructed the bridge told the state-owned China News Service.
“The steel frame used to support and encase the glass bridge is also very strong and densely built, so even if a glass is broken, travelers won’t fall through.”
Visitors take in the breathtakeing views from the glass Skywalk, 4000 feet over the valley on the west rim of the Grand Canyon Sunday, August 12, 2007. The spectaculor Skywalk, which opened in March of 2007, is part of a much larger and growing new visitor’s complex on Hualapai Nation land about two and a half hours east of Las Vegas. The facility, reachable by air or via driving, partly on unimproved roads, is fee based and reservations are recommended. Photographer: Craig Ruttle/Bloomberg News
Haohan Qiao was originally a wooden bridge before the park experimented by replacing a small section with glass in 2014.
It decided to increase the thrill by revamping the whole overpass earlier this year, making it China’s first all-glass suspension bridge.
Hunan is due to open another glass bridge later this year in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon area, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) northwest of Shiniuzhai.
When completed, the Zhangjiajie structure will be the world’s highest and longest glass bridge — 430 meters long and 300 meters high.
Source – CNN news