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World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal. Would you brave it?
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I used to get shaky knees and vertigo when I was close to the rail on the second floor of the mall, so...
Time to go past your limits and have those shakes break the speed of sound!
Absolutely. I mean, if I had a reason to cross it at least. I dunno if I'd do it just for the view, but if I needed to get from point A on one end to point B at the other, it wouldn't phase me at all.
Germany having a bunch of obstacle courses at height where you go climbing around trees and do vary ziplining and stuff (kletterwald) was a great discovery, and while they're not anywhere near that length, they're similar in spirit.
Germany having a bunch of obstacle courses at height where you go climbing around trees and do vary ziplining and stuff (kletterwald) was a great discovery, and while they're not anywhere near that length, they're similar in spirit.
I've been looking into it as I'll probably go this summer (I was going to spend a weekend in Porto and might add an extra night in Arouca to do the Paiva walkway + this bridge) According to the site it's 1 km from the parking lot on one side, and 1,2 or 1,5 (don't recall) km from the other.
I went there a while ago, the bridge was still in construction, but the big "slingshot" structures on each side where already there. It was a lot closer to one of the entrances, as I had to walk pretty much the whole walkways to reach it (I started on the opposite side).
Can't remember the names of each entrance, but the one furthest away from this bridge is the one with a small wooden bar with a canoe on top, with a parking lot next to it.
I meant the sides of the bridge, not of the walkways. You can enter on either side of the canyon and there are designated parking spaces on both sides, each 1 to 1,5 km from the bridge.
The bridge itself is indeed at one end of the Paiva walkways, so you can end or start with the bridge of you decide to fully walk them.
I'm looking into starting at the bridge, and then walk the whole walkways upriver, as you need to reserve a time slot for the bridge (so ending with the bridge puts you on a deadline for the walk. Though the trail is apparently less demanding if you have the bridge at the end, because it goes down in that direction)
The start of the video shows a bit of the construction process.
No way, I barely made it across the carrick-a-rede bridge in Northern Ireland and that's like less than 50 meters long.
I'll check it out. Just looking at the image gets a nope from me though.
Oh hell no. There's no way I'm attempting to cross that shit.
And I have to cross it again on the way back? Nightmare fuel.
And I have to cross it again on the way back? Nightmare fuel.
i do bungee jumping, paragliding etc without any issue, but i fucking hate grated flooring even if it's 20cm above the ground
It's the intrusive thought of the fact that I could very easily just... go right over the edge if I leaned too much or something that would prevent me from using it.
You can't use it freely, people will be divided into groups with a guide. Don't think they're doing anything more than that.