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Glass bridge to connect two cliffs in China’s Avatar-mountain park

Aug 20, 2019

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Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.

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Megan Eaves

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Megan Eaves is a travel author, consultant and advocate for sustainable travel and dark skies. She formerly served as Lonely Planet's North and Central Asia Destination Editor. Her writing appears in The Independent, BBC, CNN, Culture Trip, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Travel Weekly, Horizon Guides and numerous others. She has written Lonely Planet guidebooks to China, South Korea and Tibet and edited dozens more, as well as DK guides to China, Shanghai and Beijing. Her other beats in…
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A new glass bridge is set to open in Zhangjiajie, a karst peak region in China’s Hunan province often touted as being a real-life Pandora from the film Avatar. A 430-metre-long glass bridge is set to open in the park, connecting two karst cliffs 300 metres in the air. It will also feature the world’s highest bungy jump and a zip line. The Zhangjiajie skywalk is the latest in a string of superlative glass walkways being built in China, the most recent being a cantilever bridge built over a cliffside near Chongqing. The Zhangjiajie bridge, which was designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, and is slated to open in July. Read more: shanghaiist.com

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