The end of the road for Kampong Cham’s iconic bamboo bridge? Video

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Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Rinith Taing

 

Kampong Cham’s bamboo bridge is one of the province’s most popular attractions and a sustainable feat of engineering. But with a modern government-funded bridge being built up the river, this could be its last year

 

With every dry season, the waters of the Mekong River separating Kampong Cham town from the roughly 1,000 families on Koh Paen recede, becoming too shallow for a ferry. Each year, for decades, the island’s residents have employed a unique solution: building a seasonal, kilometre-long bamboo bridge until the rains swell the river, then tearing it down again.

 

Aside from a few missed years due to war, the bridge has been an iconic annual fixture of life in the province.

 

 

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