A 780-foot glass bridge and diamond-shaped glass bar — suspended over a canyon — just opened in the country of Georgia. Take a look.
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Sarah JacksonJun 22, 2022, 18:15 IST
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The next time you go out for drinks, you could test your limits and visit a bar suspended more than 900 feet above a canyon.
That is, if you're able to get to Georgia.
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(Not the state, the country.)
Last week, the country unveiled a new bar made of glass that hangs over its Dashbashi Canyon in Tsalka, Georgia.
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That's roughly a two-hour drive from the country's capital, Tbilisi.
But that's not all.
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The bar sits in the middle of a glass bridge stretching across the canyon that you'll need to walk to get a drink.
The bridge measures 240 meters, or approximately 787 feet, long. It took roughly three years to build and cost an estimated $40 million.
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Kass Group, the investment group behind the construction of the bridge, says it's "a unique attraction for international tourists as well as local residents."
"In the beginning, I was a little scared but after you walk on it, it can feel very safe," one visitor, not pictured here, told Reuters. "And the view is amazing. It's all worth it."
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Another visitor told Reuters, "It's kind of scary but not too much. We were having fun."
The project's lead designer, Kass Group's Tomer Mor Yosef, spoke with local newspaper Georgian Journal last May about the bridge and bar.
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"The aim was to create an extreme, exciting, and unforgettable moment that would arouse all five senses of the guests and will manage to stay imprinted in their memory," he told the newspaper.
He says the choice to fashion the bar after a diamond shape was inspired by the canyon beneath. "While planning the project, we altered the size of the V-shaped canyon and turned it into a diamond shape, which will be a resting place on the bridge. The tip of the diamond is pointing right at the river running underneath it," he told the Journal.
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The materials that went into the bridge were put to the test for a year to "find out how the seasonal changes throughout the year affect them," he added.
Kass Group says the bar is the biggest, tallest hanging structure in the world, and it's reportedly been submitted to the Guinness World Records for verification.
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But wait, there's more.
If the glass bridge and bar aren't thrilling enough for you, there's also a zipline.
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Daredevils like this visitor can bicycle over the canyon on the zipline, which runs parallel to the bridge.
At the end of the day, designer Yosef says "what matters the most is that we made nature as accessible as possible to its visitors."