This is the Long Banga Bridge, with its beautiful surrounding, taken from a long boat I was travelling in.
Long Banga, the only Saban village in the world, which dates back to about 1900 when the Sabans moved from Kalimantan to a safe abode in the Upper Baram Valley. They found the valley of Banga River, a small tributary of the Baram to be safe, fertile and peaceful. The Sabans became Christians in the 1960's.
The village was used as a forward base by the Allied Army during the Confrontation in the mid-1960s. The Army fired a lot of mortars towards the Indonesian border daily. Today many ammunition artifacts can still be found when farmers go about clearing their land on the mountain slopes where the army base was.
The Long Banga Bridge is one of the many Bailey Bridges built in Sarawak.
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