I'm all alone in the
northeast
Parts of the India and I'm just here with the crickets. I
have not seen a single
foreign face
but, oh, actually I saw one person today
but, uh,
yeah, not a whole lot of
tourists coming out here
but
I'm just blown away and,
what I'm doing right now is I'm walking down
thousands of steps,
to get to a small
tribal village where they have
living route bridges it is a
very bizarre,
natural
thing so I thought it'd be worth the natural achievement. That's a word for it
and this walk down
these steps is supposed to take about two and a half hours, it's about noon right now with breaks and everything
hopefully I'll get there by like three.
But that's my day. I haven't gone all the way down yet, but I did come across a
root bridge, I
didn't even know this one was here. This is
considered to be the longest of all the roof bridges in the area
Although that might be a lie
They also said that they had a sign that said three minutes walk only it took like I don't know, fifteen
It's pretty impressive looking. Just like look at that all that is this made out of woven roots all the way through.
Okay, only two people are allowed on the bridges at one time don't throw a rubbish anywhere and, heh,
don't show any physical affection
And it's an offense of two thousand rupees
That's pretty serious
Wow
Yeah, that's like 30 bucks if you kiss somebody on this bridge.
That is amazing. It's like the branches, the roots are woven together, these are like laid down obviously, but that's insane
It's pretty sturdy. Oh my god
This is absolutely terrifying.
Yeah, you know
it all seems like
So fine and good on paper
Come walk across the living root bridges, but in practice this is a pretty freakin scary
because it does sway and
They are alive
So they were susceptible it's not like made out of like rebar this thing could break
But what's stronger than mother nature right? Right? Wow, okay, that's moving
Okay
Looks like there's a partial one over there
there's a
Cemetery
Interesting is that this is the only one I've seen up here. Been a couple and
Apparently the people around here or Christian
This is somehow more terrifying looking than the root ones
Yeah, how is that this one's made out of metal crossing this little screen there
Yep, this is much scarier
than the actual
Roots, this one's like shaking like all over the place, even though it is made out of like rebar
There's a root bridge over
There kind of wish I was able to access that one instead because this one is a wiggly
All right still
Walking. It's been a minute and
I'm coming up to another footpath for a pedestrian bridge. This one seems even a better construction
Little wobbly. My knees are just like shaking
from all of this and I've been walking for about an hour and a half all downhill and
I just like hate to think about what its gonna be like
coming back
Whoa. Oh
Man, this is uh
it's pretty rough, but
It's also very thrilling
Two bridges
This one which
It's super sturdy
and then
It's another one. I'm pretty sure I've had nightmares about this one. It's made out of like steel
rope
But that's it. Doesn't really have like a bottom to it
so that is
absolutely petrifying it's like
Just a bundle of wires
That you're supposed to walk across to go across that,
Holy Moley. That is, beautiful.
I am even in now in Nongriat, which is the main
place I want to be going to and
Here's another footbridge. This one looks very old
It's much smaller
Not like a whole lot going on here
Size wise but the constructions interesting because they've like lay down rocks,
Throughout it so this is like I don't see like a single
Inorganic
piece of material
There's no wire. There's no anything. It's not even like any slats put down my bamboo or anything
they just took the roots weave them together and
Laid it down with rock to make it sturdier
That's insane
here's a good look at the
Tree here, too
Yeah, these are rubber trees
It's not crossing much but
Still that's a feat impressive bridge
And more importantly than this bridge look over here
There's a mama chicken leading its chicks
I'm having a great time
This bridge is like,
Super sturdy. I think this is not going anywhere
This one must be old. I'm guessing like as we years go on, the roots get bigger and the bridges just gets stronger
So the one I was on earlier that long one
must not have been like super old and
In the distance there
Here's another one there's a whole bunch of them around here
This is the most
famous of all of the roof bridges because it is a
double
root bridge
Not sure why there needs to be two but it is still very impressive
And tree I mean the root bridges themselves are amazing, but that trees is like insane
This place is pretty cool
Very off the beaten path kind of destination, but
incredible there are
There's tourism here. It's like a trickle
It's really like nothing compared to like what you see like the major sites that you would you would dig out like
Taj Mahal like
Forget about it. It's like insane here. I'm like
Staying at a guesthouse. It's very small and like he's the guy owning it. It's like pretty confident
it'll probably be like full by the end, but it holds like
10 or 15 people, you know, there's maybe like
20 people in town
Yeah
I don't see any like Western tourists around but you see a lot of domestic ones people are coming from you know
Surrounding areas of India. This is a cool getaway for people who live in Assam or something like that
They're like a few hours away. This is a cool place to get away from the crazy city life
This is really a nice relaxed feel to it. It's really quiet. I mean besides all the
Birds and bugs and stuff like that, but it's yeah, really?
it's a wonderful little place and I
Can see this becoming like a big thing soon
I think right now it's like people are just finding out about it and they're just kind of drawing in tourism here
So I think in the next like 10 years
this will probably like boom. If you want to come here now is the time because I think
right now that
Tourism is a trickle but you know in a few years this is going to be like a booming tourist destination.
You just kinda like feel it.
But for now, I'm enjoying the serenity of just being here basically like alone and getting like all this amazing
nature and these cool sites all to myself
Which you know having traveled around India
It's rare, but usually you're fighting through like hordes of people to see
Any of the sites
This plays you you feel like you have the whole place to yourself