South of Mangkuang a rock divides the waters of the Nujiang, making it comparatively easy to build the first chain bridge across the Nujiang in 1789. Metford describes this northernmost bridge across the Nujiang:
The second day in Lukiang State we halted for lunch beneath a treeoverlooking a fine suspension bridge, Shuang Lung Chiao [Shuanglong Qiao], the "Bridge of the Two Dragons". There were two bridges really, for the river was quite wide there. The first was about eighty feet long and stretched from the bank to a little island of rock in the middle of the river, the other stretched across the 120 feet from the rock to the far bank. Traffic was very small over the bridge, and, indeed, only one old man with a mule crossed while we rested there. Only when the main Salween bridge, two days' march farther down river, was under repair was the traffic diverted to the Bridge of the Two Dragons' (Metford 213-214)
Travel Notes
The bridge is a short walk down from the highway.
