Top images: ‘Monkey bridges’ (cau khi) are found haphazardly spanning the Mekong Delta (Laos). A-frame footbridges usually built of uneven logs about 30cm to 80cm wide with only a simple bamboo railing. They are suspended anywhere from 2m to 10m above the canals and connect tiny villages throughout the region to main roads.
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Photographs available online: mekongdeltatour.org/ Above illustration from Oscar Hidalgo Lopez, Manual de Construccion con Bambu, National University of Colombia. Left: Suspension bridbe in Kapuas, Borneo available online: flickrhivemind.net/Tags/ bamboobridge/Interesting
MONKEY BRIDGES IN THE MEKONG
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