Bamboo Stories

A group of men in NorthEastern Bangladesh are facing a dangerous mission They are to conquer the river with a 70 meter long raft The ride is 300 kilometre long always downstream The freight 25 000 bamboo trees The mens path begins in the dense forests of the Sylhet region in NorthEastern Bangladesh Millions of bamboo trunks are hacked down there and being slid down by the workers along the dangerous mountainstream into the valley The bamboos reach the river Kushiara through hundreds of these channels Here the trunks are bundled a giant raft arises Then the long journey begins