Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Wooden Bridge


Located less than 100 meters from National Highway 1A - near the Vuon Xoai slope - the bridge of Ong Ong Temple (or another name is Ong Cop bridge, Binh Thanh, Tuy An) across Binh Ba river (there is a map recorded as Phu Ngan river). The bridge connects the villages north of An Ninh Tay commune, Tuy An district with Xuan Dai ward and Song Cau town.


The bridge was built privately since 1998 with a total cost of over 1 billion VND, a length of about 800m (the longest simple wooden bridge in Vietnam) and an average of 2m wide. The main material of the bridge is wooden planks made from casuarina and eucalyptus trees. The bridge is made of old bamboo stems. Bridges are designed only for motorbikes, bicycles and pedestrians to use across the river.


The bridgehead on National Highway 1A has a sketchy wooden house and is also a place to collect money from vehicles. Each turn, pedestrians pay 1,000 VND, bicyclists pay 3,000 VND, ride a motorbike to pay 5,000 VND. The bridge is maintained and maintained every year, there are five floods and floods that wash away the bridge, it takes months to rebuild. During that time, people had to take a long detour.



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