U Bein Bridge

The Taung-Tha-Man Bridge is better known as U Bein Bridge. The construction of the Bridge started in 1849, and it was completed two years later in 1851. It has 1086 posts or pillars and 1.2 Km long. There are nine passageways for large boats. There is something remarkable about the structure, no iron nail was used in fixing the parts in place; the Myanmar builders must have foreseen the eventual corrosive action of the rain and the lake's water on any pieces of metal. The tops of the posts were shaped in such a way as to stream down the rainwater easily. The horizontal curvature of the Bridge suggests that the builders had got the idea of cushioning the impact of stormy waves and winds.

U Bein Bridge in summer time

U Bein Bridge

U Bein Bridge in monsoon 2004

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