Mother Nature is a wonderful architect, providing incredible spectacles to witness, from the natural mangrove bridge to the rocky bridge. With development, man has also developed some of the architectural wonders over the years, which are connecting cities over the sea, ocean, and huge rivers. But this incredible 3,000-foot bamboo bridge in Cambodia, the world’s longest, is taken down and rebuilt annually.

 

The crossing has 50,000 sticks of bamboo and is built during the dry season to link Cambodia’s sixth-largest town Kampong Cham, with 1,000 families on Koh Paen island across the Mekong River. The bridge is built in the dry or summer season as the waters of the Mekong River recede and become too shallow for the ferry to move.

 

When the rainy season is supposed to begin, before the waters of the Mekong River start to widen, the bridge is dismantled by hand, and the bamboo is stored away or reused for other constructions. This is done because, during the monsoon season, the river currents are too strong for the bridge to survive. At that time, people in the cities travelled by boat or ferry.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501376176/cambodia-reconstructs-its-longest-bamboo-bridge-each-year/

 

Always amazed by these bamboo bridges in Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. Especially the ones supporting the weight of vehicles.