Floating Bridge At Angkor Wat Temple
A floating bridge opened for use by foreign tourists and local visitors at Cambodia's renowned worldwide Angkor Wat temple on Thursday 25 May 2017, empowering them to achieve the antiquated temple while the original stone bridge experiences remodel by Cambodian and Japanese specialists.
As indicated by APSARA official said that the temporary floating bridge can be utilized something like 20 years and there are six spots for visitors to remain with a specific end goal to get outside air and take pictures. It has an aggregate surface of 1874 square meters (along 197 meters x width 10 meters), in 1 square meter can shoulder 272 kg, and if you expect a man measuring 80 kg, the bridge can bolster a sum of 6371 people in the meantime. He included that this bridge is studied by APSARA and built by KTS Company.
A temporary floating bridge, which is developed by 6,720 plastic bags of polyethylene, situated in south of Angkor Wat Western Causeway. The bridge is worked to redirect the visit and keep up security for visitors in Angkor Wat temple, while the thoroughfare will be shut totally for the specialists of APSARA Authority and Sophia University to reestablish it.
The 200-meter bridge, with railings secured with Hindu reverential themes, is set to experience a moment period of repairs by specialists of the APSARA Authority, which is in charge of keeping up and dealing with the World Heritage site, the Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture, and Tokyo-based Sophia University.
The principal period of 100 meters of causeway renovation was finished in November, which was done for the most part by Cambodians with financing from the Japanese government and help from Sophia University.
Under the second stage, which is required to be done by 2020, restoration work will be done on the remaining 100 meters utilizing stone masonry techniques of the Angkor area, which started in the late ninth century and kept going until the late fourteenth century.
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Very nice bridge. I hope I can see it.
Nice bridge ;)
I'm glad the main causeway is being repaired.
Yes now tourists use this floating bridge to Angkor Wat temple. It is a very nice bridge.
Very nice.
To be honest I really don't like it when ancient buildings get these modern looking add-ons, but well, they have to restore the main bridge, I understand... I'm just glad that I visited Angkor without that new bridge 😎
By the way, your posts about Cambodia are really good, followed you 😉
Yes I think we use this bridge temporarily. When we repair old bridge already, we will use old bridge.
Yeah, I saw that, it's great =)
Interesting to note that Angkor Wat is also one of the places on Earth that is of relation to the Great Pyramid in phi/golden mean ratio relationship by where they were built.
Amazing place, if i have time i will visit it.
Nice post
Beautiful place, I would like to know that place.