Breathtaking Bridge In Vietnam Looks Like Something From Lord Of The Rings
A bridge outside Da Nang in Vietnam is wowing visitors with its beautiful view and elegant design – seemingly being held aloft by two giant stone hands.
Known as the Golden Bridge, it stands 1,400m above sea level above the Ba Na hills, offering majestic panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. The gold-colored footbridge is lined with purple Lobelia Chrysanthemums and extends for almost 150 meters, curving around in a neat design. But it is the sculpted hands holding the pedestrian bridge that give it the true wow factor. The design for the footbridge came from a company called TA Landscape Architecture, and while the hands look like they are carved from stone, they are actually not. “We designed the skeleton of the hands and covered them with steel meshes,” a representative of the company told Bored Panda. “Then we finished with fiberglass and added the theming on it. The entire construction of the bridge took about a year.”
Vietnam tourism has experienced a boom as more and more people discover the beautiful places to visit in this remarkable country; the structure is part of a $2 billion investment to bring even more than the 1.5 million visitors the area receives annually. Would you like to visit this amazing bridge? Scroll down below to check it out, and if you ever visit it, don’t forget to hand hold your partner while on the handheld bridge!
This bridge in Vietnam is wowing visitors with its elegant design
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It is seemingly being held aloft by two giant hands
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Known as the Golden Bridge, it stands 1,400m above sea level above the Ba Na hills
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The bridge is brand new, and was opened to the public in June
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Offering majestic views of the surrounding countryside
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The gold-colored walkway is lined with purple Lobelia Chrysanthemums
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And extends for almost 150 metres
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Curving around in an elegant design
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But it is the giant sculpted hands that give it the true wow factor
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Vietnam has experienced a tourism boom
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As more and more people discover the beauty of this remarkable country
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The structure is part of a $2 billion investment
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To bring even more than the 1.5 million visitors the area receives annually
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Would you like to visit this amazing bridge?
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Share on FacebookThe plants are purple/blue salvia. No such plant as purple lobelia chrysanthemums. Must be a translation error.
Yeah, it must be lost in translation. I came here first to check the comments, so thank you. :)
Load More Replies...Yeah, I was gonna go to Florida, then Iceland, but now I reckon it's Vietnam...
have always wanted to go to Vietnam since reading a book called Matterhorn by karl Marlantes
Load More Replies...Awaiting for this post for a long time. Finally, it's here <3 Comment from Vietnam. So proud! :)
It is beautiful and I would love to visit your country - if just to see the long wall of Quang Ngai
Load More Replies...I like that it's brand new but they made it look old. That's not very easily done.
If I could turn, turn back the hands of time Then my darlin' you'd still be mine🎶
Load More Replies...OMG, how wonderful to think that we can still be this creative in structural engineering. Absolutely love it!!!
Aesthetically the hands look very real and proportional too.
Load More Replies...I went to Vietnam to visit some of my relatives and on the way we stopped here! The view was so stunning! The bridge leads to this little amusement park/resort called SunWorld and it was just loads of fun Sunworld-V...69e689.png
awww - the amusement park at the end kind of spoils the aesthetics
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who is annoyed that the flowers they refer to as "lobelia chrysanthemums" are neither lobelias nor chrysanthemums?
DEFINITELY thinking these are REAL GIANTs hands!! I agree on the vacay locale! Way to go Vietnam!
This is absolutely amazing I would love to visit and walk over and explore it properly.
This should win awards for environmental conciousness. The UN must acknowledge it !
It drives me crazy that you never see pictures head on, facing the mountain (or hill?). I keep thinking there’s a whole body there they’re just not showing...
Whooaa, a concentrated kitsch at its best aaaa worst kind, so sorry.
first, i had thought it was a photoshop when i first saw it on instagram, yesterday. wow
I am curious how they got the hands to look so old ( moss, cracks, etc.) yet the bridge is new.
really huge monuments scare the hell out of me. Phobia: megalophobia Fear of really huge things in water (think megeladon): megalohydrothalassophobia
It’s a lovely bridge, but there’s definitely a creepy factor there. I can’t decide if I love it or not.
Absolutely lovely!! Could we have more thoughtful architecture like this, please?!
It's amazing. Lots of marriage proposals will happen here. If only those were Buddha's hands---it would have been perfect!
The hands look like they have been dead for at least a week and are already decomposing. They should clean them regularly to get rid of the vegetation.
The government seems to have pretty sturdy hands then, eh?
Load More Replies...$2 billion of local currency, not euros not pounds and most definitely not dollars. Don’t worry. When I was a kid, I didn’t think Picasso’s and Van Gogh’s works anything special either.
Load More Replies...The plants are purple/blue salvia. No such plant as purple lobelia chrysanthemums. Must be a translation error.
Yeah, it must be lost in translation. I came here first to check the comments, so thank you. :)
Load More Replies...Yeah, I was gonna go to Florida, then Iceland, but now I reckon it's Vietnam...
have always wanted to go to Vietnam since reading a book called Matterhorn by karl Marlantes
Load More Replies...Awaiting for this post for a long time. Finally, it's here <3 Comment from Vietnam. So proud! :)
It is beautiful and I would love to visit your country - if just to see the long wall of Quang Ngai
Load More Replies...I like that it's brand new but they made it look old. That's not very easily done.
If I could turn, turn back the hands of time Then my darlin' you'd still be mine🎶
Load More Replies...OMG, how wonderful to think that we can still be this creative in structural engineering. Absolutely love it!!!
Aesthetically the hands look very real and proportional too.
Load More Replies...I went to Vietnam to visit some of my relatives and on the way we stopped here! The view was so stunning! The bridge leads to this little amusement park/resort called SunWorld and it was just loads of fun Sunworld-V...69e689.png
awww - the amusement park at the end kind of spoils the aesthetics
Load More Replies...Am I the only one who is annoyed that the flowers they refer to as "lobelia chrysanthemums" are neither lobelias nor chrysanthemums?
DEFINITELY thinking these are REAL GIANTs hands!! I agree on the vacay locale! Way to go Vietnam!
This is absolutely amazing I would love to visit and walk over and explore it properly.
This should win awards for environmental conciousness. The UN must acknowledge it !
It drives me crazy that you never see pictures head on, facing the mountain (or hill?). I keep thinking there’s a whole body there they’re just not showing...
Whooaa, a concentrated kitsch at its best aaaa worst kind, so sorry.
first, i had thought it was a photoshop when i first saw it on instagram, yesterday. wow
I am curious how they got the hands to look so old ( moss, cracks, etc.) yet the bridge is new.
really huge monuments scare the hell out of me. Phobia: megalophobia Fear of really huge things in water (think megeladon): megalohydrothalassophobia
It’s a lovely bridge, but there’s definitely a creepy factor there. I can’t decide if I love it or not.
Absolutely lovely!! Could we have more thoughtful architecture like this, please?!
It's amazing. Lots of marriage proposals will happen here. If only those were Buddha's hands---it would have been perfect!
The hands look like they have been dead for at least a week and are already decomposing. They should clean them regularly to get rid of the vegetation.
The government seems to have pretty sturdy hands then, eh?
Load More Replies...$2 billion of local currency, not euros not pounds and most definitely not dollars. Don’t worry. When I was a kid, I didn’t think Picasso’s and Van Gogh’s works anything special either.
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