Langkawi Sky Bridge
Wednesday, 21st May 2008 by James Turnbull
The Langkawi Sky Bridge perches precariously over a spectacular chasm, 700m above sea level on Pulau Langkawi, an island within Malaysia's Langkawi archipelago of 99 distinct islands1.
Incredibly, the cable-stayed bridge actually curves 125m around a single support, sweeping out dramatically over the vast emptiness below.
Acrophobics should probably avoid watching this wonderfully terrifying Youtube video, and gephyrophobiacs definitely won't enjoy these stunning bridge-level photos...
Thanks to Rusbridge.
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Except at low tide, when the archipelago consists of 104 islands. ↩︎
Its Pulau Langkawi not Palau. Pulau is a Malay word means island. Langkawi came from the word helang, which means eagle..
Nice post!
Thanks horiyochi, I’ve fixed the typo.
Hope you don’t mind me posting something similar from Spain: http://theadventureblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/heres-video-that-came-across-week-or-so.html You would not catch me walking along this one! The video is super scary.
Cool! Two things puzzle me, though… How can the number of islands in the archipelago increase at low tide? I can imagine that at low tide some islands become connected, so you would expect there would be less islands. But if an island is underwater during high tide, it’s probably not an island but a shoal or mud flat or something…
And secondly, how do acrophobics feel when using Google Earth?
Julian: Wow! Watching that video and humming the Indiana Jones theme just then…. Whew! Gotta go catch my breath.