Opened Last April, This Glass Bridge In Vietnam Breaks The Guinness World Records

JAKARTA - A glass-floored walkway bridge in Vietnam, which opened to the public in April, has been declared the longest bridge in the world of its kind by Guinness World Records.

The previous record for the world's longest glass-floored bridge was held by a 1,726-foot-long building in Guangdong, China, as reported by CNN on May 30.

Located in the rural highlands of Son La Province, in northwest Vietnam, the Bach Long bridge connects visitors to the popular mountain resort and offers panoramic views of the lush mountainous rainforest.

Standing about 492 feet above the ground and measuring 2,073 feet long, this glass bridge is the result of a joint collaboration between local tourism authorities and a French construction company to revive tourism, which has been hard hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic as the country closed its borders to international visitors.

This bridge is said to be strong enough to bear a load of up to 450 people at once. Not long ago, an SUV-type vehicle crossed it to test the strength of this bridge.

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

It is known, this is the third glass bridge built in Vietnam. In 2018, another spectacular mountain bridge, supported by a pair of enormous stone hands, made global headlines after opening in the Ba Na Hills area of Central Vietnam.