China's obsession with glass-bottomed walkways has reached a new level.



A theme park in the city of Chongqing has built a terrifying transparent walkway which extends more than 80 metres (262 feet) from a cliff face above a vertigo inducing 120-metre drop (390 feet).

The impressive A-shaped bridge has overtaken another observation deck in Chongqing to become the world's longest cantilevered glass-bottomed walkway.


Accredited by Guinness World Records, the thrilling footbridge is located in the Wansheng Ordovician Theme Park in Chongqing, a municipality with nearly 30 million people in south-west China.



The theme park spent one year and around 40 million yuan (£4.5 million) constructing the eye-catching attraction.

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The walkway's total length is nearly 200 metres (656 feet) and it was opened to the public in April.
No more than 30 visitors are allowed to stand on the bridge at any one time.


In 2015, the Longgang National Geological Park, also in Chongqing, unveiled a horseshoe-shaped glass walkway that juts 87.5 feet from the edge of a cliff face.



The footpath, suspended 2,350 feet above the ground, was the longest cantilever bridge in the world at the time, beating Arizona’s Grand Canyon Skywalk by 16.4 feet.



See-through walkways have been cropping up all across China in the past two years or so.


They are usually built by the local authorities as a way to attract tourists to the area.



These attractions are usually presented in the form of a bridge, a cliff-side passage or an observation deck.