{"id":26036,"date":"2018-08-26T20:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinatour.net\/?page_id=26036"},"modified":"2018-08-26T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:51:06","slug":"zhangjiajie-grand-canyon-glass-bridge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/hunan\/zhangjiajie\/attractions\/zhangjiajie-grand-canyon-glass-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is located in Cili County, Zhangjiajie. Close to the World Natural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic Area, this scenic site is a newly developed area that is open to the public on August 20th, 2016. Spanning two cliffs in the canyon area, the bridge stretch 430 meters long and 6 meters wide, hovering over a 300-meter-deep valley. The bridge deck is paved with transparent glasses and can accommodate up to 800 people at a time. The glass-bottom is the world&#8217;s highest and longest glass bridge, which is regarded as a model of international bridge construction with 10 WORLD MOST prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s highest and longest glass-bottom bridge opened on Saturday in China&#8217;s spectacular Zhangjiajie\uff0dthe inspiration for the US blockbuster movie Avatar.&nbsp;Some 430 meters long and suspended 300 meters off the ground, the bridge spans the canyon between two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie park in Central China&#8217;s Hunan province.&nbsp;Six meters wide and made of 99 panels of clear glass, the bridge can hold up to 800 people at once, said an official in Zhangjiajie, a popular tourist destination.&nbsp;Tourists can walk across the bridge, designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan. The more adventurous will be able to bungee jump or ride a zip line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-27745\" src=\"http:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge.jpg 950w, https:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chinatour.net\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/zhangjiajie-glass-bridge-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is located in Cili County, Zhangjiajie. Close to the World Natural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic Area, this scenic site is a newly developed area that is open to the public on August 20th, 2016. Spanning two cliffs in the canyon area, the bridge stretch 430 meters long and 6 meters wide, hovering over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":10707,"menu_order":155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27746,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26036\/revisions\/27746"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinatour.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}