Vietnam’s new glass bridge enters Guinness World Record

A glass-bottomed walkway in Vietnam, which launched to much general fanfare in April, has been announced the world’s longest bridge of its type by Guinness World Records.

The last record for the world’s lengthiest glass-bottomed bridge was owned by a structure measuring 1,726 feet in length in Guangdong, China.

Discovered in the rural highland region of Son La region in northwestern Vietnam, the Bach Long bridge connects guests to a popular mountain resort and offers impressive panoramic views of lush mountain rainforest.

Suspended approximately 492 feet above the ground and estimated 2,073 feet in length, the glass bridge was a joint collaboration between local tourism administrations and a French construction company to revive tourism, badly hit by the global pandemic when the country shut its borders to international guests.

It is declared to be strong enough to support up to 450 people at a time. An SUV was recently driven over it to test its strength.

Guinness World Records officials certified the bridge over the weekend, local media outlets said.

It was recorded that it is the third glass bridge to be constructed in Vietnam. In 2018, another spectacular mountain footbridge, held up by a pair of enormous stone hands, made global headlines after it launched in the Ba Na Hills area in Central Vietnam.