What happens if you are walking at height of 3500 feet with no surface to place your feet. I know the feeling in itself is enough to sends chill down the spine. However, this has become reality, you can experience walking on air, when you land on the world’s highest and longest bridge opened recently in China.
China famous for its innovation has added one another feather in its cap by constructing world’s longest bridge situated in Shiniuzhai Geopark in Hunan.
The bridge is six meter wide stretches 430 meters over a 300-meter-deep valley between two cliffs in the beautiful Zhangjiajie Park.
It is believed that the idea of constructing this bridge has come from the Sci-Fi movie “Avatar”.
The specialty of this bridge is that it’s surface is constructed using white glass which is so thin that it feels like you are walking on air.
So when someone walks on this longest and highest bridge of the earth, he/she experiences that they are walking on air and it accesses them the close glimpses of nature. The bridge has been designed to look as invisible as possible.
The bridge after its opening have been drawing tourist from all corners of the world. According to the officials, everyday thousand of people register themselves to ride on this bridge. People line up daily to experience the scariest walk of their lives.
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However, bridge can stomach the weight of 8000 people at a time. It is gradually turning into one of the most popular tourist destinations around the world.
Tourist who have walked on this bridge described this as one of their most memorable and scariest experience ever. Many tourists complained vertigo, vomiting and breathing problems while walking on this bridge.
Despite the health problems and fear, the love and curiosity of people to walk on this bridge has been increasing rapidly.