Furong Ancient Town, Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge – Hunan, China
Furong Town (芙蓉镇) is located in Yongshun County, Xiangxi Prefecture, Hunan Province, China, and also advertised as Furong Ancient Town.
It is a tourist attraction in mountainous northwest Hunan, approximately halfway between the popular tourist destinations of Fenghuang County and Zhangjiajie.
Furong Town is well known for its scenic location, situated on cliffs above a waterfall that falls into the You River.
Furong was originally known as Wangcun, but was renamed following the success of the eponymous film, Hibiscus Town. The Tujia people were the original inhabitants of Wancun, and today Furong consists of a mix of Tujia and Han Chinese peoples.
Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge (张家界大峡谷玻璃桥, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge) is a skywalk bridge across the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. Its official name is Yuntiangdu (云天渡).
It was built as an attraction for tourists, is glass-bottomed and is transparent. When it opened it was the longest and tallest glass bottomed bridge in the world.
The bridge, opened to the public on August 20, 2016, measures 430 metres (1,410 ft) in total length and 6 metres (20 ft) in width, and is suspended about 300 metres (980 ft) above the ground.
To build the bridge, engineers erected four support pillars on the edges of the walls of the canyon. The bridge is made of a metal frame with more than 120 glass panels. Each of these panels is three-layered and is a 5.1-centimetre-thick (2 in) slab of tempered glass.
There is also the opportunity to bungee jump from a height of 285 meters (935 ft), which is considered the highest bungee jump in the world.
According to the Management Committee of the Bridge, the bridge has set ten world records spanning its design and construction. The record as longest glass bridge has since passed to a glass bridge in the Hongyagu Scenic Area, Hebei Province.
Video Source: China -Tour Of Furongzhen Ancient Waterfall Town/Glass Bridge Of China’s Grand Canyon – Jan 2024 from Traveling Lens Man on Youtube ⁄ CC BY
