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Thailand

A demonstration by farmers in the North of how in the past water buffaloes were commonly used to form a bridge during floods in the rainy season.

 

People would cross flooded areas by walking over the buffalos' backs. Such as a live bridge is in Thai known as Saphaan Kwai, literally ‘Buffalo Bridge’.

 

  buffalo bridge