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Detailed explanation-1: -World’s longest glass-bottomed bridge opens for daredevils in Vietnam. Vietnam’s newest tourist destination is attracting travellers with a head for heights. The Bach Long pedestrian bridge-meaning ‘white dragon’ in Vietnamese-is a glass-bottomed overpass suspended 150 metres above the rainforest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Named Bach Long or the “White Dragon”, the new tourist attraction which opened to the public back in April 2022, is now officially the longest glass bridge in the world. A representative of the Guinness World Records handed over the certificate to a representative of the Son La provincial administration on May 28.

Detailed explanation-3: -Its glazing solutions on Bach Long bridge located in the highlands of North Vietnam could make it the longest glass bridge in the world. Suspended 500 feet above the ground, the Bach Long Bridge (white dragon in Vietnamese) deploys 250 Saint-Gobain glass panels over the 2073, 5 feet-long bridge.

Detailed explanation-4: -The world’s second longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to the public in China in July 2020, spanning 1, 726 feet across the Lianjiang River in southern China’s Huangchuan Three Gorges Scenic Area.