Bouncing Along 🎈 (Sohaila's Blog)

Look what climate change has done! Just a few years ago, The artiste's village of Choglamsar was destroyed in the massive mudslide in Ladakh and now massive fires are threatening the North West Territories in Canada, Yellow Knife, which has been evacuated, Fort Smith, Hay River the Katlodeeche First Nation, Enterprise & Jean Marie River...all have seen residents displaced because of out of control fires. And there are no refugee centres established yet. The fleeing residents are supposed to fall on their own resources, however little they may be, to be able to make the journey to towns like Alberta. But what of their lives there?  I remember visiting these communities on our way to Yellow Knife...we were chasing the Northern Lights and the picturesque little towns on the way made the trip all the more worthwhile. We travelled through Enterprise, Hay River, Edzo, Behchoko, Fort Mackenzie river, the Great Slave Lake, stopping to photograph moose  crossing the highway. I am w...

A cruise on the river reveals its beauty and that of  the State that hosts it “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” ... And nowhere is this better expressed than in Assam, with the mighty Brahmaputra as chief narrator. Assam has embraced migrants over centuries, who brought different ethnicities, religion and culture to its fertile shores. Cruises are rare in India. That itself is exciting, so I decide to do one right here rather than book myself into an international one.  I choose a medium- sized ship called the M.V. Mahabaahu , operated by Adventure Resorts & Cruises. I select the downstream cruise that would take us from Jorhat to Guwahati on the river, while enjoying all the on-shore excursions offered by them.   Arriving at Jorhat airport, my cousin Pam and I are picked up and taken to Neamati Ghat, where the big boat is berthed. The M.V. Mahabaahuis is  outfitted ...