China’s obsession with glass-bottomed walkways has reached a new level.
China’s obsession with glass-bottomed walkways has reached a new level.
The glass-bottomed walkway, in China, is built on the side of a cliff face at 390ft high and extends 262 feet into the air Photo:Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park
A theme park in the city of Chongqing has built a terrifying transparent walkway which extends more than 80 metres (262 feet) from a cliff face above a vertigo-inducing 120-metre drop (390 feet).
The impressive A-shaped bridge has overtaken another observation deck in Chongqing to become the world’s longest cantilevered glass-bottomed walkway.
The footpath has been accredited by Guinness World Records as the world’s longest cantilevered glass-bottomed walkway Photo: Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park
Accredited by Guinness World Records, the thrilling footbridge is located in the Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park in Chongqing, a municipality with nearly 30 million people in south-west China.
The Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park spent one year and around 40 million yuan (£4.5 million) building the star attraction Photo:Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park
The theme park spent one year and around 40 million yuan (£4.5 million) constructing the eye-catching attraction.
The walkway’s total length is nearly 200 metres (656 feet) and it was opened to the public in April.
No more than 30 visitors are allowed to stand any one time on the bridge, which was opened to the public in April Photo:Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park
No more than 30 visitors are allowed to stand on the bridge at any one time.
In 2015, the Longgang National Geological Park, also in Chongqing, unveiled a horseshoe-shaped glass walkway Photo: Dailymail
In 2015, the Longgang National Geological Park, also in Chongqing, unveiled a horseshoe-shaped glass walkway that juts 87.5 feet from the edge of a cliff face.
The footpath, suspended 2,350 feet above the ground, was the longest cantilever bridge in the world at the time, beating Arizona’s Grand Canyon Skywalk by 16.4 feet.
The walkway in Chongqing extends 87.5ft from a cliff edge, allowing visitors to feel as though they are walking on air Photo:Dailymail
See-through walkways have been cropping up all across China in the past two years or so.
They are usually built by the local authorities as a way to attract tourists to the area.
These attractions are usually presented in the form of a bridge, a cliff-side passage or an observation deck.
