Brahmaputra

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...

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...

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...

 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...

Man Overboard After a very relaxed morning we left the muddy shores of our camp for Daulat Dia, the confluence of Ganga, which is known as Padma here, and Jamuna, originally known as Brahmaputra in India. Padma looses her identity here and the combined waters flow on...

Beyond The Infinite Planning an early start, woke up today at 5 in the morning only to find that it was still too dark to start the day. So, returned to the cozy environs of our sleeping bags to snooze for another half an hour. Once on the river, the journey was still...

Latest Releases Today was officially our first day on the river in Bangladesh. Leaving the shallow waters of Phular Char ghat needed a lot of pushing and pulling but soon we were in the main channel and going was good. The Brahmaputra river is known as Jamuna in...

Life Along the River On the morning of 14th as we woke up with the first glow of dawn in our see through net domes, we found ourselves surrounded on all sides by a small crowd of local fishermen. Our first thought was that this is how animals in the zoo must be...

New Friends Along the River On the 13th morning after winding up the camp we went back to Kachari Ghat in Dhubri. It was here that JaJa, Misha and Romcha, the female contingent of our crew in India was to depart from the team and head for their holiday in Darjiling...

Taking Care of Each Other From Goalpara we we kept moving west as we headed for Dhubri. On way we stoped at a small village called Bagh Mara along the river bank to find out if there was any tea shop around. The answer was negative but we stopped anyway. It was a nice...

Life Along The River After yesterday’s break we resumed our journey early in the morning, leaving behind Guwahati, stilled wrapped in the morning mist. Brahmaputra at this point is perhaps at its narrowest and there is a rail & road bridge that spans her at this...

Press Conference After a very long time, today we all had a lazy morning as there was no winding up of the camp and moving on. The press conference was at 1 pm and that gave us all time to do our overdue laundry. Bright sun helped drying up and we managed to get rid...