Don't look down: 'world's longest' glass-bottomed bridge opens in Vietnam
Vietnam launched a new attraction for tourists with a head for heights on Friday, with the opening of a glass-bottomed bridge suspended 150 metres above a lush jungle. The Bach Long pedestrian bridge — its name translating as white dragon — in the north-west Son La province, snakes around dizzying cliff faces before spanning a dramatic valley between two peaks, hitting a total length of 632 metres. The floor of the bridge is made from French-produced tempered glass, making it strong enough to support up to 450 people at a time, while giving them a spectacular view of the greenery in the gorge far below. “When standing on the bridge, travellers will be able to admire the beauty of nature,” Hoang Manh Duy, a representative of the bridge’s operator, said. The company says it is the world’s longest glass-bottomed bridge, surpassing a 526-metre structure in Guangdong, China. Officials from Guinness World Records certified the Guangdong bridge in 2020. They are expected to verify Bach L...