The glass bridge is not only beautiful, but also stylish. So the Chinese decided, and they built an unusual glass structure in the Hunan province. After the construction of the bridge, it was used to connect the two sides of the mountains, and also a lot of tourists were played.
Features of the bridge
This bridge is considered to be the longest glass structure on the planet. 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 glass bridge project and its construction cost China $ 3.4 million. The bridge consists of 99 solid and three-layer parts. Under the bridge stretch national park and the canyon. While excursions at the facility are in test mode.
Draws for tourists
Immediately after the opening, a funny incident occurred on the extraordinary bridge. The guide, who was leading the group on the glass structure, suddenly collapsed to his knees and screamed heart-rendingly, and the visual effect of cracked glass appeared under his feet. The tourists were taken aback, but then relaxed a little, because a passer-by was quietly walking towards them 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 reproduce the sound of breaking glass necessary for the drawing. These are the Chinese entertainers.
Visit to the bridge
8000 people can look at and walk on the bridge a day. 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 at the ticket office in front of the bridge at night to buy a ticket for an excursion.
Now everyone is accustomed to the new miracle of engineering, and the excitement around it has subsided a little. 800 people can cross the bridge at the same time. But for security reasons, the traffic number was reduced to 600. After all, the bridge itself is guarded by about 200 guards.
The facility is open to visitors from 7 am to 5 pm. It often happens that by 8 am all tickets for the glass bridge are already sold out, so it is worth planning a tour of it in advance.
The ticket price is approximately 140 yuan. A child whose height is less than 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. You will have to leave the carriage at Zhangjiajie station. It is also possible to fly to this place from Beijing by plane.
The canyon, over which a glass bridge looms, is a 15-minute drive from the city. It is preferable to get there by car, which is not difficult to rent.
Several glass pedestrian bridges have been built, which are of great interest to tourists and local residents. They give a delightful experience when crossing an abyss and allow the pedestrian to test their courage and courage.
Glass bridges are a national hobby of the Chinese. Nowhere in the world are there so many facilities like China. They are very popular, and their number is growing exponentially every year.
These bridges are trending in China today. Their construction is inexpensive, and the effect of the influx of tourists quickly pays for the investment. No less in demand here glass trails over steep cliffs and observation decks with glass floors.
Glass bridges
one) . It is located at an altitude of about 300 m, has a length of more than 400 m and can simultaneously support up to eight hundred people.
The glass covering of the lower part of the structure has undergone a huge number of safety tests for pedestrians, incl. resistance to high and low ambient temperatures, their sudden changes, to strong winds, etc.
Because of the glass floor, the bridge looks like 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 - 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 Brave. It is about 300 m long 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 out of glass. First, an experiment was carried out: a small part was covered with glass.
Visitors to the park liked to walk high above the ground in the clouds, so it was decided to make the entire pedestrian walking bridge glass. Since then, he has enjoyed deafening popularity.
Experts are sure that the 6 cm thick glass floor is completely safe, you can jump on it. But few people decide on such actions. The vast majority of pedestrians move across the bridge with their eyes closed or crawling.
3) The "cracking" glass bridge in China at the Taihanshan Mountain it is located at an altitude of almost 1200 meters. In fact, the appearance of "cracks" is an attraction or a special effect, a way to once again test pedestrians for their courage.
It is important to note that from such a special effect, an unprepared pedestrian can simply have a myocardial infarction. Local authorities believe that this is just a playful "provocation", but continue to be criticized by the population.
But in 2015, the special effect glass actually began to crack, and it was removed and repaired. But after the renovation, they installed "cracking" glass, explaining this by the great popularity of the attraction among the audience.
4) New glass bridge appears in southern China, only the most courageous and reckless people will be able to walk on it. It runs around a steep cliff at an altitude of over 1,500 meters, called the "Wriggling Dragon" and leads to Mount Tianmen.
The length of the bridge is over 100 meters, it is narrow - about 1.5 meters. Walking along it, pedestrians see pictures of the surrounding nature of extraordinary beauty: a valley below and mountains floating by clouds.
Glass observation decks and trails
1) Near Beijing is the famous Shilin forest. In this forest, there is a playground with a glass floor. It has an area of over 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 walk along it, it takes a lot of courage, which the Chinese are so fond of demonstrating.
3) The Yunduan glass observation deck is located at an altitude of over 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 viewers a magnificent view from above.
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The glass bridge in China, which opened in September this year, cracked right under your feet and among tourists. Many people who risk walking across a glass bridge at a height of several hundred meters, and without unnecessary shocks, experience the strongest excitement and fear, since the glass underfoot does not seem as strong as it really is. After the incident, the tourists began to 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 began to crack. 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 further than cracks. The bridge did not collapse or collapse, and not a single person was injured as a result of the incident.
The bridge builders 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. Only one layer was damaged by the impact of the metal thermos. The bridge is currently closed to visitors, and the damaged section is being repaired.
The glass bridge in Hunan province has recently become a real attraction. The bridge was built in the Yuntai Mountains. For many, a hike across such a bridge seems like a real extreme trip. The glass deck of the bridge creates the feeling of walking through the air at a great height.
Video. Longest glass bridge in China
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A video from China is gaining popularity on the Internet, in which a man walking on a glass bridge falls in panic when cracks begin to crawl on the glass under his feet. Fortunately, nothing happened - the cracks were just an ingenious special effect added to one of the sections of the bridge.
The footage of a glass bridge along Taihangshan Mountain cracking under his feet has captured the attention of Chinese social media, according to Mashable. You can watch how the hero of the video, noticing the cracks, falls on the glass in fear and tries to crawl away.
A non-trick-looking man, presumably a tour guide, leads a group of people.
Suddenly cracks begin to appear under his feet.
The guide falls to the glass with a cry, but cracks continue to creep under his hands. The man, in a panic, tries to crawl away.
The video quickly spread across a large number of Chinese media outlets.
Fortunately, the cracks that frightened the pedestrian were just the result of the work of special panels installed on one of the sections of the bridge located at an altitude of 1,200 meters. The panels respond to pedestrian footsteps by displaying images of crawling cracks and producing a distinctive sound.
The bridge, located along the sheer cliff, offers an impressive view.
The East Taihangshan District Administration issued an official apology, explaining that the cracked glass is just an effect the designers added to "provoke". The administration has no intention of dismantling the pedestrian-intimidating panels and hopes that a good dose of adrenaline will help attract additional tourists.
"The effect is too realistic, really a little scary."
"The cores can get churned here."
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In the video presented, you can see a unique moment when 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 begins to scream. (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 surface), but begins to become covered with numerous large cracks, emitting the characteristic sound of breaking glass.
However, the video is truly amazing not only this: to the great surprise of everyone who perceived this critical moment with bated breath, another tourist walking in the opposite direction calmly walks along the dangerous section of the bridge, not paying the slightest attention to its critical condition. Is this extreme?
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It turns out not, just a visitor, apparently, is not the first time on this road of fear, or who has already experienced such a special effect, 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 in fact accidentally dropped something heavily on the glass, which made it slightly cracked. Of course, not as effective, but even this caused panic among tourists. Can you imagine what happens to them when the glass coating does not just crack, but literally begins to creep underfoot!
This, of course, is coolly invented, says one of the Internet users, but when creating such effects, apparently, the circumstance that some people have a weak heart was not taken into account - there is not long before a heart attack.
But the majority of Internet users approved of 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 at all. Pay attention, they say, that mainly young people are on this road of fear, and if you come across elderly people, as a rule, they are not Europeans, for whom the fear of heights is especially characteristic.
Well, it is quite reasonable, especially since, according to the words of the representative of the administration of the Eastern Taihangshan District, where this road of fear 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 a real danger is an even more vivid and unforgettable feeling, which, apparently, is experienced by a tourist who fell to his knees in horror when the glass cover crackled under his feet ...
