Finally got to go on the Brahmaputra, we hired a boat from the ferry terminal and went for a 2 hour trip up the river to investigate the river islands, and the 'hidden' communities along the banks of the brahmaputra. some barely clinging to the river banks. its a massive river, around Guwahati it is only 1-2km wide, but further up-stream it is upto 10km during the winter and double that during the summer monsoon season. It is difficult to understand the sheer scale of everything in india, not only the natural environment but also the social side as well which i hope has come out in some of the photos over the past 5 weeks?
the boat crew and my guide got a little tired of the strange englishman asking to go closer to barren sand islands!
a view up the river
fishermen at work. i tried getting the boat closer but the river in this part was less than 2feet deep!
fishing on the banks of the river.
the boat crew and my guide got a little tired of the strange englishman asking to go closer to barren sand islands! 
a view up the river
fishermen at work. i tried getting the boat closer but the river in this part was less than 2feet deep!
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Wow - thats impressive! You need to clean your lense tho ;-)
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ReplyDeletetch tch Ellie, what have you been saying that its all been removed??
ReplyDeletehmm i dunno. the first one i removed cause noticed some not proper good english... just about it being a calm river and i expected it to be a raging torrent.
ReplyDeleteOoo beautiful blue skies. What were they fishing for? Did you get to ask?
ReplyDeleteits in the plain elli.......not in the himalayas...you can see the raging torrent in the monsoon though.
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