Hello Steemit Friends,
Legend has it at the Sasasin bridge… Do you like love stories… I go one for you all. If you are a fan of the notebook, the fault in our stars or titanic; right here in Phuket there’s one in similarity. I have been told about the Sarasin bridge ever since I could recall. It is the bridge crossing over between Phuket and Phang Nga Province.
My parents drove by it with me in the back seat numerous of times. I love waving my hands out to touch the winds as my mom yells at me to pull in back into the vehicle. If you ever travel to Phuket car, you will have to cross over the Sarasin bridge.
Nowadays there is two bridges besides one another. The old bridge was built in 1967, it’s 600 meters long. In 2011 a new bridge was added calling it The Thepkasattri Bridge and the previous was renovated, with the middle area being raised higher and a watch tower installed.
Some people say that the Sarasin Bridge love story is a myth, and many believes that it is real. The story starts with two people, Dam was a poor man who is local bus driver. Gew was a wealthy girl who was going back and forth to a college and took Dam’s bus ride. As old school as it is, her parents expected her to marry someone from a moneyed background as well.
The two met and got to know each other over time and started falling in love. After revealing their feelings, both sought to Gew’s father for permission an blessing for married. Her father refused and forbidden them from seeing each other.
The couple decided that if they couldn’t be together, they would take their lives. This story there’s even a date, on February 22nd 1973, they tide themselves together and jumped over the Sarasin Bridge.
This story has even been made to a Thai love story and the bridge became a tourist attraction. Sarasin bridge became not only symbol of a connection between mainland and island but also rich and poor; life and death.
The sasarin bridge is best to visit late afternoon before the sunset as the sky turns purple and pink mixing with the blue. Apart from the bridge there isn’t much going on but the locals fishing, boats passing by beneath and small local shops. There is a restaurant right beside where we stopped for fresh coconuts and sat on the swing by the beach. Ever place, city, town or island is filled with stories.. What is yours ?.
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Much love, Suzana
