DANANG: Nestled in the forested hills of central Vietnam two large concrete hands emerge from the trees, keeping up a glimmering golden bridge crowded with gleeful guests taking selfies at the nation's newest eccentric tourist draw.
Designed to make guests really feel like they're taking a stroll on a shimmering thread stretching across the hands of gods, the "Golden Bridge" has attracted hordes of visitors because it opened in the Ba Na Hills near Danang in June.
Images of the bridge have gone viral on social media, much to the surprise of the architect who had no concept it could draw in such a lot consideration.
"We're proud that our product has been shared by people all over the world," foremost clothier and founder of TA Landscape Architecture, Vu Viet Anh, informed AFP.
At 150 metres long (490 toes), the bridge snakes throughout the wooded area top up in mountains first advanced via French colonists as a hill station in 1919.
Watch: Stunning visuals of Vietnam's Golden Bridge
Today the area is a significant tourist enchantment, boasting a cable car, replica French medieval village -- including fake castle and cathedral -- manicured gardens and a wax museum featuring statues of Lady Gaga and Michael Jordan.
The simplest remnants of the original French occupants are the crumbling stays of their holiday homes that may nonetheless be spotted from the cable car.
But guests are most commonly in the newly built Cau Vang, this means that "Golden Bridge" in Vietnamese.
"The bridge is beautiful with an amazing architectural style, from here we can see Danang City, it's so nice," Nguyen Trung Phuc informed AFP.
Another visitor, Nguyen Hien Trang, stated: "I have travelled quite a lot but I've never seen any bridges as beautiful as this one."
The Ba Na Hills undertaking used to be built via Sun Group, which has divided opinion with audacious initiatives in different places in Vietnam.
In 2016 it opened a cable car on Vietnam's tallest mountain Fansipan in the tourist hotpot Sapa, prompting proceedings from locals who felt it spoiled the landscape and took trade clear of trekking guides.
Vietnam is not any stranger to off-the-wall points of interest.
A "crystal cloud" installation of 58,000 shimmering Swarovski beads in the rice-terraced hills ofnorthern Vietnam opened previous this 12 months, while the surreal "Crazy House" lodge in central Da Lat, designed to look a trippy treehouse, has long attracted legions of curious guests.
The communist nation has long sought to spice up visitor numbers and position itself as a must-see destination in Southeast Asia.
It clocked 13 million international guests remaining 12 months, most commonly from China -- a far cry from the 35 million world guests to Thailand in 2017.
Golden Bridge clothier Anh stated he already has any other undertaking in the works: a silver bridge made to look like a god's strand of hair that can hook up with his existing construction in the Ba Na Hills.
Designed to make guests really feel like they're taking a stroll on a shimmering thread stretching across the hands of gods, the "Golden Bridge" has attracted hordes of visitors because it opened in the Ba Na Hills near Danang in June.
Images of the bridge have gone viral on social media, much to the surprise of the architect who had no concept it could draw in such a lot consideration.
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— Sheeba Thattil 🇮🇳 (@SheebaThattil) 1533046762000This pedestrian bridge in Vietnam used to be opened to the public in June. Known because the Golden Bridge, it stands 1,400m ab… https://t.co/stu2RBhhjq
— That's Earth (@ThatsEarth) 1533086602000Love that the Danang Golden Bridge in #Vietnam are bordered via #gardens of what appears to be lavender https://t.co/ebTk2HqzrF
— John Lieber (@jungle_capital) 1532977076000"We're proud that our product has been shared by people all over the world," foremost clothier and founder of TA Landscape Architecture, Vu Viet Anh, informed AFP.
At 150 metres long (490 toes), the bridge snakes throughout the wooded area top up in mountains first advanced via French colonists as a hill station in 1919.
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Today the area is a significant tourist enchantment, boasting a cable car, replica French medieval village -- including fake castle and cathedral -- manicured gardens and a wax museum featuring statues of Lady Gaga and Michael Jordan.
The simplest remnants of the original French occupants are the crumbling stays of their holiday homes that may nonetheless be spotted from the cable car.
But guests are most commonly in the newly built Cau Vang, this means that "Golden Bridge" in Vietnamese.
"The bridge is beautiful with an amazing architectural style, from here we can see Danang City, it's so nice," Nguyen Trung Phuc informed AFP.
Another visitor, Nguyen Hien Trang, stated: "I have travelled quite a lot but I've never seen any bridges as beautiful as this one."
The Ba Na Hills undertaking used to be built via Sun Group, which has divided opinion with audacious initiatives in different places in Vietnam.
In 2016 it opened a cable car on Vietnam's tallest mountain Fansipan in the tourist hotpot Sapa, prompting proceedings from locals who felt it spoiled the landscape and took trade clear of trekking guides.
Vietnam is not any stranger to off-the-wall points of interest.
A "crystal cloud" installation of 58,000 shimmering Swarovski beads in the rice-terraced hills ofnorthern Vietnam opened previous this 12 months, while the surreal "Crazy House" lodge in central Da Lat, designed to look a trippy treehouse, has long attracted legions of curious guests.
The communist nation has long sought to spice up visitor numbers and position itself as a must-see destination in Southeast Asia.
It clocked 13 million international guests remaining 12 months, most commonly from China -- a far cry from the 35 million world guests to Thailand in 2017.
Golden Bridge clothier Anh stated he already has any other undertaking in the works: a silver bridge made to look like a god's strand of hair that can hook up with his existing construction in the Ba Na Hills.
In the hands of the gods: Vietnam's Golden Bridge goes viral
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