The glass bridge is not only beautiful, but also stylish. So the Chinese decided, and built an unusual glass structure in Hunan. After the construction of the bridge, two sides of the mountains were connected with it, and many tourists also played.
Bridge features
This bridge is considered the longest structure on the planet made of glass. Its length is 430 meters. And the width is 6 meters. The bridge is suspended at an altitude of 380 meters. Also this design is safe and equipped with the latest technology.
The design of the glass bridge and its construction cost China $ 3.4 million. The bridge consists of 99 strong and three-layer parts. Under the bridge stretches a national park and canyon. While excursions at the facility are in test mode.
Drawings of tourists
Immediately after the opening, an amusing incident occurred on an extraordinary bridge. The guide, who led the group on the glass structure, suddenly fell to his knees and yelled heartbrokenly, and under his feet the visual effect of cracked glass arose. Tourists were taken aback, but then relaxed a bit, because a passer-by walked calmly in their direction across the bridge.
Glass bridge in China cracked under the feet of tourists (video)
It turned out that the bridge is equipped with interactive panels that create the effect of cracks, as well as reproducing the sound of breaking glass necessary for drawing. These are the Chinese entertainers.
Visit to the bridge
A day, 8000 people can look at the bridge and walk on it. Before opening, the structure was tested for strength more than 100 times. The opening of the attraction took place in 2016. At first, people were on duty near the ticket office in front of the bridge at night to buy a ticket for the tour.
Now everyone is accustomed to a new miracle of engineering, and the hype around him is a little subsided. At the same time, 800 people can cross the bridge. But for security reasons, the throughput was reduced to 600. After all, the bridge itself is guarded by about 200 guards.
The facility is open to visitors from 7am to 5pm. Often, it so happens that by 8 a.m. all tickets for the glass bridge are already being sold out, so you should plan a tour of it in advance.
The ticket price is approximately 140 yuan. A child whose height is below 1 meter and 30 centimeters can enter for free.
How to get to the glass bridge?
The city with the bridge is located in the southwest of Beijing. You can get there by train. Get out of the car will have to station Zhangjiajie. It is also possible to fly to this place from Beijing by plane.
The canyon, overhanging a glass bridge, is a 15-minute drive from the city. It is preferable to get to it by car, which is not difficult to rent.
Photos from open sources
In the video presented, you can see a unique moment, as the famous Chinese glass bridge, located at an altitude of more than one kilometer around a mountain in Hebei Province, began to crack under the feet of a tourist who falls from fear and starts screaming. (site)
At the same time, the transparent road of fear does not just crack slightly, as it was, for example, two years ago on a similar attraction, only in Henan province (then the visitor dropped it on the cover), but begins to be covered with numerous large cracks that emit the characteristic sound of breaking glass.
However, this video is truly not only astonishing: to the great surprise of everyone who perceived this critical moment with bated breath, another tourist going in the opposite direction calmly walks along the dangerous section of the bridge, not paying the slightest attention to his critical condition. Is that extreme?
Photos from open sources
It turns out that no, it’s just that the visitor, apparently, is not the first time on this road of fear or has already experienced such a special effect before, because there are several of them on the bridge.
The organizers of this attraction, probably, were prompted to create such "extreme special effects" by real situations when visitors really accidentally dropped something heavily on the glass, which made it slightly cracked. Of course, not so effective, but even this caused a panic among tourists. And you imagine what is happening to them when the glass coating does not just crack, but begins to literally creep under your feet!
This, of course, was coolly invented, says one of the Internet users, only when creating such effects it was not taken into account, apparently, the circumstance that some people have a weak heart - not long before the heart attack.
But most netizens endorsed the Chinese invention, rightly putting forward an argument in its defense that people with a weak heart, very afraid of heights, would never go to such an attraction. Pay attention, they say that young people are mainly on this road of fear, and if older people come across, as a rule, these are not Europeans, for whom the fear of heights is especially characteristic.
Well, it’s quite reasonable, especially since, according to the words of the representative of the administration of the East Taihanshan District, where this fear road with amazing special effects is located, the latter attract tourists even more. People love to be afraid, which is why, for example, horror films are wildly successful. To experience real danger is an even more vivid and unforgettable sensation, which, apparently, is experienced by a tourist who fell to his knees in horror when a glass covering cracked under his feet ...
The glass bridge in China, which was opened in September this year, cracked right under the feet and among tourists. Many people who run the risk of walking over a bridge of glass at a height of several hundred meters, and without unnecessary shocks, experience great excitement and fear, since the glass underfoot does not seem at all as strong as it really is. After what happened, the tourists started a real panic.
It all happened after one of the tourists dropped a metal thermos with water. Cracks appeared on the glass from the impact. Eyewitnesses of the incident say that suddenly a loud sound and unusual vibrations were heard, after which the glass underfoot went cracked. The tourists who were in this place screamed and ran away from the bridge. It all looked like a scene from some action movie. However, things did not go beyond cracks. The bridge did not collapse or collapse, and not a single person was injured in the incident.
The builders of the bridge claim that the bridge is very reliable and can withstand a load of 800 kilograms per square meter. In addition, the bridge deck consists of three layers of durable glass, each of which is 24 millimeters thick. Upon impact of a metal thermos, only one layer was damaged. Currently, the bridge is closed to visitors, repair of the damaged area is underway.
The glass bridge in Hunan has recently become a real attraction. The bridge was built in the Yuntai Shan mountains. For many, a trip on such a bridge seems like a real extreme journey. The glass flooring of the bridge creates the feeling of walking through the air at great height.
Video. The longest glass bridge in China
Glass bridge in China photo
A video from China is gaining popularity on the Internet, in which a man walking on a glass bridge in a panic falls when cracks begin to creep under the glass under his feet. Fortunately, everything worked out - the cracks turned out to be just an ingenious special effect added to one of the bridge sections.
The footage of a man whose feet crack the surface of a glass bridge located along Taihanshan Mountain has captured the attention of Chinese social networks, the Mashable website reports. You can watch how the hero of the video, noticing cracks, falls in fear on the glass and tries to crawl away.
A man who does not expect a trick, presumably a tour guide, leads a group of people.
Suddenly, cracks begin to appear under his feet.
The guide cries out onto the glass, but the cracks continue to creep under his hands. A man in a panic tries to crawl away.
Video instantly scattered across a large number of Chinese media.
Fortunately, the cracks that frightened the pedestrian were just the result of the work of special panels installed on one of the sections located at an altitude of 1,200 meters of the bridge. The panels respond to the steps of pedestrians, displaying images of creeping cracks and making a characteristic sound.
The bridge along a steep cliff offers spectacular views.
The administration of the East Taihanshan District issued an official apology, explaining that cracking glass is just an effect added by designers to “provoke” it. The administration does not intend to dismantle the frightening panels of pedestrians and hopes that a good dose of adrenaline will help attract additional tourists.
“The effect is too realistic, really a little scary.”
"The cores here and can be rid of."
Several glass pedestrian bridges have been built, causing great interest among tourists and local residents. They give an amazing feeling when crossing a precipice and allow a pedestrian to test himself for courage and courage.
Glass bridges are a national fascination for the Chinese. Nowhere in the world there are so many such facilities as in China. They are very popular, and their number is increasing exponentially every year.
Today, these bridges are trending in China. Their construction is inexpensive, and the effect of the influx of tourists quickly pays for investments. Glass paths above steep cliffs and viewing platforms with a glass floor are no less in demand here.
Glass bridges
1) . It is located at an altitude of about 300 m, has a length of more than 400 m and is capable of simultaneously withstand up to eight hundred people.
The glass coating of the lower part of the structure was subjected to a huge number of safety tests for pedestrians, including resistance to high and low ambient temperatures, their sharp changes, to strong winds, etc.
Because of the glass floor, the bridge looks like an invisibility, and pedestrians have the feeling that they are walking through the air, soaring in the clouds. But such a journey is beyond the power of children and people suffering from actophobia - a fear of heights. They may have a nervous attack.
2) The second bridge in Hunan Province can be found in Zhangjiajie Park. It is called the Bridge of the Bold. It has a length of about 300 m and hangs between two hills at an altitude of about 180 m.
Previously, the bridge was made of wood, but gradually the interest of tourists and vacationers in the park began to fade away, and a modern decision was made: to make it of glass. First, we conducted an experiment: a small part was covered with glass.
Visitors to the park liked to walk high above the ground in the clouds, then it was decided to make this entire pedestrian walking bridge glass. Since then, it has been deafeningly popular.
Experts are sure that the 6 cm thick glass floor is completely safe, you can jump on it. But few decide on such actions. The vast majority of pedestrians move across the bridge, closing their eyes or crawling.
3) Cracking Glass Bridge in China Taihanshan Mountain is located at an altitude of almost 1,200 meters. In fact, the appearance of “cracks” is an attraction or a special effect, a way to once again test pedestrians for courage.
It is important to note that from such a special effect an unprepared pedestrian may simply have a myocardial infarction. Local authorities believe that this is just a game "provocation", but they continue to be criticized among the population.
But in 2015, glass with a special effect actually began to crack, it was removed and repaired. But after the repair they put a “cracking” glass, explaining this by the great popularity of the attraction among the audience.
4) A new glass bridge appeared in southern ChinaOnly the most daring and reckless people will be able to go through it. It passes around a sheer cliff at an altitude of more than 1,500 meters, called the “Curving Dragon” and leads to Tianmen Mountain.
The length of the bridge is more than 100 meters, it is narrow - about 1.5 meters. Walking along it, pedestrians see pictures of the surrounding nature of extraordinary beauty: the valley lying below and mountains floating by the clouds.
Glass Observation Decks and Trails
1) Near Beijing is the famous Shilin Forest. This forest has a playground with glass flooring. It has an area of \u200b\u200bover 400 km. m, a height of more than 400 m and gives an excellent view of Shilin: huge stones mixed with trees.
2) In the south of China, in the mountains in 2015, a path more than 250 m long was opened. It is located on the steep side of the mountain, and in order to pass along it, considerable courage is required, which the Chinese love to demonstrate.
3) The Unduan glass viewing platform is located at an altitude of more than 700 m. It was opened in the summer of 2015, extends far into the abyss from the mountain cliff to which it is attached, and offers the audience a magnificent view from above.
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