Golden Bridge
Cau Vang or Golden Bridge is an enormous bridge, and soon to be tourist hot spot, where a pair of giant hands hold up a narrow walkway in Vietnam’s Truong So’n Mountains. This incredible structure stands well above the trees of the Thien Thai Garden in the Ba Na Hills.
Golden Bridge opened in June of 2018 and is said to be a part of a $2 billion project to accommodate the growing number of tourists in the area. The Ba Na Hills were a popular getaway for the French during the colonial occupation of Vietnam and according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, they received over 2.7 million visitors last year.
This walkway, designed by TA Landscape Architecture in Ho Chi Minh CIty stands at just over 1,000 meters (3.280 feet) above sea level and is 150 meters (492 feet) long.
“The bridge was designed to evoke the image of the giant hands of Gods, pulling a strip of gold out of the land” said Vu Viet Anh, Design Principal at TA Landscape Architecture. “It creates a walkway in the sky, among the foggy and fairy-like lands of Ba Na mountain,” said Anh who then added that he had been surprised at the level of attention his firm’s design had attracted both locally and internationally.
Golden Bridge has attracted scored of tourists looking for the perfect Instagram picture since the opening and the tourists seem very pleased with the results.
- “I feel like I’m walking on clouds,” said Vuong Thuy LInh, a tourist from Hanoi. “It’s so unique.”
- “The two, smooth, giant hands look real,” said Truong Hoang Linh Thuy, another tourist.
- “It makes me feel like humans can do anything.” said another tourist.