A colleague of mine recently travelled to north east India to hunt for “the Indian Yeti.” The trail took him to the state of Meghalaya, and the remote West Garo Hills, which are just over the border from Bangladesh.
Alastair found that the Garo people living there believe that a 300kg vegetarian “forest man” roams the impenetrable jungle. He [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 24, 2008
The Giant Frog of Mymensingh
June 23, 2008
a million miseries now?
This place certainly gets a bad press:
This spring, I took a month-long road trip across a country that we – you, me and everyone we know – are killing. One day, not long into my journey, I travelled over tiny ridges and groaning bridges on the back of a motorbike to reach the remote village of [...]
