The Brahmaputra is one of the mightiest rivers in the world. From its source on the Angsi Glacier in Tibet it flows nearly 4,000 kilometres to its mouth in the Bay of Bengal.
Our hosts at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute wanted to take us to a char on the river. A char is a salt and silt island. But they’re not really islands … they’ve got kind of a ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ existence as the Brahmaputra keeps changing its mind about where it wants to flow.
It was a short boat ride to the char but in those few minutes we got a taste of navigating the Brahmaputra.
Once we arrived to the other side our chariots were awaiting. Some donkey-pulled carts transported us to some higher ground where a group of 60+ farmers awaited us.
All images used on this page were photographed by Michael Major for the Crop Trust and used here under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.