There Did Not Seem To Be Much In The Interesting, Amusing Or Just Plain Weird,

but then I saw this,

in the rain forests of the Indian state of Meghalaya, bridges are not built, they’re grown and guess where I was several years ago? Meghalaya! even better in the Cherrapunji region, it is one of the wettest places in the world with many fast-flowing rivers and streams, making these bridges invaluable to those who live in the region and I was actually there too!

a much slimmer me by the road side, Neil from the UK and Anil from India and myself were looking for new fish for the aquatic trade to captive breed then export, or travels took us to Cherrapunjee amongst other places, so I thought I would post a few pictures from the trip,

 although at the top of the plateau it looks like a temple it is in fact a school,

 the sign says it all,

 courtesy of a holiday resort,

 there are more than a few resorts in the area,

 but the thing was when we were there it was as dry as a bone, this cliff face in the wet season is normally obscured from view as it becomes one vast waterfall,

this was the only waterfall we saw,

 and then I got into the picture,

although known to science this is one of the many interesting fish that we caught, sorry it does not have an English name, it is Garra nasuta, one of the only pictures you are likely to see on the Internet of one, this is a male caught in the foothills of the Himalayas, what appears to be it's mouth is in fact a breeding display of tubercles on the top of it's head, the mouth is underneath the fish,

 the fishes mouth, as an aside if ever you wish to have your feet nibbled by one of the many foot spas that seem to be spring up all over the place, it is this fishes relative that will be doing the cleaning for you,

 this is how to cast a net properly, I have tried to cast a net like several times in Thailand, but apart from catching the nearby trees and bushes caught no fish at all,

 we also went to the Balpakram National Park to look at the once extremely rare one horned Rhino (Rhinocero​s unicornis) it is different from the African in that it has one horn and the body seems to have 'plates' rather than a continuous skin, around the beginning of the 1900's there were less than a few hundred but numbers have now increased 10 fold. Rhinoceros​: from the Greek rhino, meaning 'nose' and ceros, meaning 'horn' unicornis: from the Latin uni, meaning 'one' and cornis, meaning 'horn',

we did have more than a few heart stopping moments on our travels, hitting the brakes before falling off the other side of of these boats strapped together being one of them,

me hard at work with taking pictures of some of the fish we caught, if you want to see more of our travels drop me a comment with your email address (I will not publish it), and I will send you a link to view the other 200 pictures of the trip.