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China inaugurates the longest glass bottom bridge in the world

Cameras and selfie sticks are banned, and people wearing stilettos will not be allowed to walk on the bridge.

By :  naren pulloor
Update: 2016-08-21 03:00 GMT
The bridge is undergoing “an internal system upgradeâ€, the official Xinhua News service quoted officials as saying, but did not specify when it would reopen. (Photo: AP)
Local authorities have said that one of the summits in Zhangjiajie Park inspired the floating mountain which appears in the American blockbuster Avatar.
Cameras and selfie sticks are banned, and people wearing stilettos will not be allowed to walk on the bridge.
Only 8,000 people each day will be allowed to cross the bridge and tourists will have to book their tickets a day in advance, at a cost of 138 yuan ($20).
Tourists can walk across the bridge, designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, and the more adventurous will be able to bungee jump or ride a zip line.
Six metres wide and made of some 99 panels of clear glass, the bridge can carry up to 800 people at the same time.
Some 430 metres (1,400 feet) long and suspended 300 metres above the earth, the bridge spans the canyon between two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie park in China's central Hunan province.
Cameras and selfie sticks are banned, and people wearing stilettos will not be allowed to walk on the bridge.

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