by Rib Expeditions | Feb 15, 2020 | Brahmaputra Expedition, Brahmaputra Travel Diary
Expedition Successfully Finished In the morning we moved from our floating home in Namkhana towards the main shipping channel that connects Kolkata to the Bay of Bengal. As we went past the Sagar Island and Diamond harbor, we stopped on the open sea for a little...
by Rib Expeditions | Feb 15, 2020 | Brahmaputra Expedition, Brahmaputra Travel Diary
The Soul of Bangladesh In the morning we wound up our camp from the narrow causeway between river and the small Ashoa Amra Juri village and proceeded into the main channel, now called Kocha river. We soon landed up in water chocked with water hyacinth. All hand on...
by Rib Expeditions | Feb 15, 2020 | Brahmaputra Expedition, Brahmaputra Travel Diary
Maybe We Need a Traffic Cop After our night stay at the tiny island, we started towards Barisal on Jamuna. The river was fairly wide with lots of big boat traffic. Some of these cargo vessels are as big as regular ocean going ships. The fishing activity on the river...
by Rib Expeditions | Feb 15, 2020 | Brahmaputra Expedition, Brahmaputra Travel Diary
Impressive Boats Today as we wound up camp and moved on, the river started getting wider wider and yet, for the most part, there was enough water to carry on without hitting the shallows.After doing just about an hour or two we reached Chandpur and felt we had...