World's longest glass bridge shuts down due to tourist rush

Beijing : Not too long ago, it was a moment of joy for globetrotters from different parts of the world as China's popular Tianmen Mountains got a new tourist hotspot in the form of a glass-bottomed walkway. Titled as the Coiling Dragon Cliff, the 330-foot-long glass walkway got the world's attention for being the longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge in the world.

Located in the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, a popular tourist spot in China, the bridge offered its visitors a breathtaking panorama of the mountains. In fact, these mountains were used as a major shooting location for the Hollywood blockbuster, Avatar.

No doubt, the bridge attracted a huge number of tourists who travelled to the place from different parts. Just two weeks after its opening, the bridge has been shut down in order to undergo 'an internal system upgrade'.

This happened mainly because the bridge received an overwhelming number of tourists who flock to the 980-feet-high transparent structure in the last few days alone. According to officials, the bridge was designed to support a maximum of 800 people at a time, and it has received as many as 10,000 tourists a day since its opening.

Now, we can only hope that the bridge reopens for the tourists after the 'upgrade'.