If you were planning on standing on the Chiang Rai skywalk in northern Thailand to stare into a thick layer of hazardous dust this week, think again, because the tourist attraction is now closed for repairs after a piece of the glass floor shattered yesterday.
Tourists standing 486 feet above sea level were terrified yesterday when a loud bang erupted from the “Three Lands Skywalk.” One layer of glass inside one panel on the West wing – about 2.5 by 2 metres long – had shattered.
Officials confirmed there was no damage to the main structure of the 32 million baht skywalk but immediately stopped tourists from ascending onto the glass just in case.
Each panel contains three layers of glass and the other two layers of the panel were undamaged, the officials said. To prove the lack of danger presented by the shattered glass, the media posted photos of five people gingerly…
