A week with a bamboo raft
~ Some glimpses of the few days of thrill ~ ~ Moving on a raft along the India – Bangladesh border ~ ~ In the Dampa Tiger Reserve ~ ~ Eclectic North East publishes this post in its March 2018 issue ~ The River. So little do we city bred know of a river! This stuck me on the first day of our trip and would re-visit me each day of the trip. Colours where the happy streams came down to join the river we were akin to a nature’s flowing palette; a poetic reality! Insects came out in no small numbers when our rafts bumped into vegetation along the banks. They, as if, checked us out and troubled no further. The only bridge we passed under still carried the weight of the last seasons flood. It was neither easy nor very pleasant to imagine ourselves on the rafts with that form of the river. Within the 60 km stretch the river’s width varied from 4 to 40 meters and it had different sounds, sounds I could not comprehend. The water is in ripples where it is too sha...