After the opening of a landmark glass vacationer bridge with restricted entry in Indonesia, a video unfold on-line falsely claiming it featured the brand new attraction. However, the clip really exhibits the viral Chinese “folding bridge” opened in September 2020, which has a special design than the Indonesian bridge.
“The Glass Bridge of Bromo,” we learn a Post on Facebook shared on November 6, 2024, with an aerial video of individuals strolling on a curved bridge surrounded by mountains.
Bromo is a vacationer vacation spot in East Java, on Indonesia’s essential island, identified for its energetic volcano. The area open a brand new glass bridge in August however with restricted entry (archived link).
Screenshot of the pretend put up, captured on November 21, 2024
The video has garnered greater than 300,000 views on comparable posts on Facebook, Instagram AND X who claimed to have proven the brand new Bromo bridge.
However, the video really exhibits a pedestrian bridge in japanese China’s Zhejiang province.
“Bent Bridge”
A reverse Google picture search discovered an identical end result video shared on November 3 by an Instagram account that posts about tourism in China (archived link).
According to the Instagram put up, the bridge is positioned within the Shenxianju scenic space in Taizhou, China’s Zhejiang province.
Below is a screenshot comparability between the video seen within the pretend put up (left) and on Instagram (proper):
Screenshot comparability between the video seen within the pretend put up (left) and the one on the Instagram account (proper)
The Ruyi Bridge, composed of three bridges with partially glass, open in September 2020, in accordance with an article by the state-run China Daily revealed on the provincial authorities’s web site (archived link).
The eye-catching construction extends 100 meters (328 toes) throughout the Shenxianju Valley and sits at a peak of 140 meters (460 toes).
A photograph from the Chinese photograph company Imaginechina, which is available within the AFP archives, it exhibits the bridge with a caption saying it was taken in Zhejiang (archived link).
Meanwhile, the brand new bridge in Indonesia, the Seruni Point Bridgeit is usually positioned in a scenic spot overlooking Mount Bromo, however has a linear construction, in accordance with Radar Bromo TV (archived link).
Below is the screenshot comparability between the pretend video (left) and the Bromo Bridge on Radar Bromo TV (proper):
Screenshot comparability between the pretend video (left) and an actual picture of the Bromo glass bridge (proper)
