#FriFotos: Under the Bridge

Posted by Intelligent Travel on September 7, 2012
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Use care when crossing this 200+ year old bridge: it has no handrails. (Photograph by Nang Ying Aung, My Shot)
Use care when crossing this 200+ year old bridge: it has no handrails. (Photograph by Nang Ying Aung, My Shot)

This week’s #FriFotos theme is BRIDGES – and this one’s a doozy. U Pain (or U Bein) was built well over 200 years ago out of teak logs to connect the two banks of the Taungthaman Lake with the town of Amarapura in Myanmar (Burma). Visitors to Mandalay can take a break from dusty, noisy city life by taking a short taxi ride to see the sun set from this remarkable bridge. But you’d better have good balance — there are no handrails!

Thanks to Nang Ying Aung, who captured this glorious moment and shared it with our My Shot community.

#FriFotos is a weekly themed Twitter chat founded by @EpsteinTravels, @TravelDesigned and @CharlesYap where travelers share their favorite pics. Search #FriFotos on Twitter to see the latest submissions or tweet one of your own.

 

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  1. Jennifer Kunkle-Clark
    Waverly New York
    May 22, 12:11 pm

    I just read about this famous bridge and how it was made from Burmese teak in a really interesting blog/ article on a site called myanmarburma.com. There were also some interesting posts about the attempts to conserve teak from lumber-hungry industries and nations who use it for everything from firewood to luxury yachts. Illegal logging is teak is a huge threat to the trees, but hopefully continued enforcement of logging regulations will have a positive effect…or this bridge may be the past of its kind1