The wooden bridge looks rustic and poetic amidst the beautiful sunset landscape on Phu Yen land.
Vietnam has many wooden river-crossing bridges, but the most famous is the Mieu Ong Cop Bridge (also known as Ong Cop Bridge, Binh Thanh Bridge) crossing the Phu Ngan River, connecting villages in the north of Vietnam. An Ninh Tay commune, Tuy district. Year with the district of Xuan Dai, town of Song Cau (Phu Yen).
Ong Cop Bridge is also a shortcut to famous landscapes in Phu Yen such as Da Dia Ghenh (about 8 km away), Mang Lang Stone Church (120 years old) or O Loan Lagoon (scenic spot Vietnamese).
On the bridgehead of Xuan Dai district, there is a watchtower run by a household to collect tolls on the bridge. Each visitor pays around 1,000-5,000 VND, depending on the number of people and goods, only students can pass for free.
“Having a connecting bridge is much more convenient than taking a detour or taking a ferry, so I am willing to pay the costs. During the rainy season, the bridge is unusable, people go very far, so all the everyone just wants the bridge not to be damaged by the floods,” said a resident of Phu Yen.
The longest wooden bridge in Vietnam
Ong Cop Wooden Bridge was built in 1998, with a length of almost 800 m, width of about 1.5 to 1.8, considered to be the longest wooden bridge in Vietnam. The particularity and attraction of this Ong Cop wooden bridge is that it is all made of wood and bamboo and crosses the O Loan lagoon which is very beautiful and unique.
Possessing a very rustic, simple and stunning beauty of old Vietnamese countryside and creating a unique scene, it is no wonder that the bridge attracts visitors to stop and make many memories on this “unique” bridge.
You will see images of women cycling to the market every day on the bridge or children gathering to bathe in the river. Everything seems extremely simple and strangely familiar.
From National Road 1A, visitors turn towards the sea for more than 100 m to discover the Ong Cop bridge. From a distance, the bridge appears small in the middle of the vast water. Every day, several hundred visitors pass there.
