The bridge is one of the engineering infrastructure to facilitate human transportation. They are built at the location above the river, valley, or the sea that separates it. However, somewhere in the world, the bridges that connect rivers was not built, but alive and growing!
1. Root Bridge in India
In India depths southeast, in one of the wettest locations on earth, bridges are made with a very strange and unique.
In India depths southeast, in one of the wettest locations on earth, bridges are made with a very strange and unique.
Growing from the roots of the rubber tree, the Khasis in Cherrapunjee using areca tree, splitting it and expel its contents to create a so-called "root pointer". When unfolded and reached the other side of the river, they began to put it together with the roots from the soil.Over time, the bridge is sturdy and life began to take shape.
Root bridges betwen some reaching 30 meters, take 10 to 15 years to be able to function fully, and make it very sturdy. Some can withstand loads of up to 50 people at once.
One of the most unique structures in Cherrapunjee is known as "Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge." Bridge consists of two layers, above and below.
Because these bridges are still alive and continue to grow, making it more solid. Some of the roots of the old bridge is used every day by people in the villages around Cherrapunjee since more than 500 years ago.
2. Bridges vines Iya Valley, Japan
One of the three valleys "hidden", in Japan, West Iya is the place misty gorges, rivers clean, and the roofs of straw or leaves, such as describing Japan centuries ago. To cross the river that flows along the Iya valley slopes, the robbers, the knight, and refugees made a special bridge made of vines.
Below is a picture of a bridge of vines in 1880:
First, two Wisteria plant - one of the most sturdy vines - planted to very long from both sides of the river. When the plants reach a sufficient length, then woven together with the board to make a living botanical engineering, soft but very sturdy.
Bridges had no sides, and a Japanese historical sources indicate that the bridge is unstable plant, and who tried to cross the first time are often frozen in place, unable to proceed any further.
Three of the bridges that still exist in the Iya Valley. Although some (not all) of these bridges were reinforced with wires and strip the sides, it is still scary to cross. More than 42 meters in length, with a board that is placed every 6 to 8 inches, and the fact that one fell into the water from a 4.5 story, making it suitable for people with acrophobia (fear of heights).
Some people believe the bridges remaining vines were first made in the 12th century, which makes some of the examples of the world's oldest living architecture.
3. Root Bridge in West Sumatra
This is now the mainstay attractions South Coastal District which is one of the most unique bridges in dunia.jembatan strong and be a liaison between the two regions Jorong (Hamlet) and Lubuak Puluik Puluik-Glare, Glare Lubuak Village, District of North Bayang , South Coastal District, West Sumatra.
From the information that was summarized one of a community leader and chairman of the public nature of youth-puluik, Herman Datuak Bandaro Rajo, the bridge was made by a scholar named Pakih Sokan sorry to see students from public nature-puluik paid often do not come as often overflowed shadow stem flow .
In 1916 Pakih Pohan planted two rods Jawi-Jawi (a type of broad-leaved banyan tree), Jawi-Jawi trees were planted at two locations-one in the public nature puluik and another in the Glare Lubuak rods separated by shadows. Then the roots were hanging woven bamboo made bridge as the root bridge of bone. After 3 years the roots of two trees Jawi-Jawi are linked but not yet passed.
Then Pakih Pohan mandabiah events goat (goat pieces) and mandarai aka (giving blood at the root of that link). "It's a sign of thanksgiving that the Jawi-Jawi roots are connected already linked, as a sign of convergence will happen again," added Herman.
To make a drivable bridge takes 20 years then the bridge can be taken Puluik-puluik residents who want to want to Lubuak Glare.
Until now the bridge measuring 30 meters long and 1 meter wide with a height from the surface of the trunk shadows about 10 feet and the current age of the bridge is already 93 years old and still can be passed from the public nature of citizen-puluik as many as 25 heads of families as well as people who want to stricken puluik-public nature.
This is now the mainstay attractions South Coastal District which is one of the most unique bridges in dunia.jembatan strong and be a liaison between the two regions Jorong (Hamlet) and Lubuak Puluik Puluik-Glare, Glare Lubuak Village, District of North Bayang , South Coastal District, West Sumatra.
From the information that was summarized one of a community leader and chairman of the public nature of youth-puluik, Herman Datuak Bandaro Rajo, the bridge was made by a scholar named Pakih Sokan sorry to see students from public nature-puluik paid often do not come as often overflowed shadow stem flow .
In 1916 Pakih Pohan planted two rods Jawi-Jawi (a type of broad-leaved banyan tree), Jawi-Jawi trees were planted at two locations-one in the public nature puluik and another in the Glare Lubuak rods separated by shadows. Then the roots were hanging woven bamboo made bridge as the root bridge of bone. After 3 years the roots of two trees Jawi-Jawi are linked but not yet passed.
Then Pakih Pohan mandabiah events goat (goat pieces) and mandarai aka (giving blood at the root of that link). "It's a sign of thanksgiving that the Jawi-Jawi roots are connected already linked, as a sign of convergence will happen again," added Herman.
To make a drivable bridge takes 20 years then the bridge can be taken Puluik-puluik residents who want to want to Lubuak Glare.
Until now the bridge measuring 30 meters long and 1 meter wide with a height from the surface of the trunk shadows about 10 feet and the current age of the bridge is already 93 years old and still can be passed from the public nature of citizen-puluik as many as 25 heads of families as well as people who want to stricken puluik-public nature.
