The day was interspersed with bumpy sandy roads of Majoli Island and the calm Brahmaputra…. A great surprise in the morning with a tea shop right in the ferry! Mishing tribal houses on stilts, pottery town and the 356 years old Vaishnav Monastery are the highlights of the island… For us it was definitely the self invited lunch at one of the tribal families. Don’t know if I was embarrassed or happy not to trouble the locals with our packaged MTR food…. As usual, a huge amount of warm hospitality even with the language barrier – beginning to get almost surprised at the few places (if any) which are uninviting.
Loved the several cups of tea waiting for the Ferry to come and pick us up. Dhon Das, the little kid at the chai shop, was certainly entertaining even in his stoic behaviour, only warming up at the chocolate – still not a peep though. Four large tractors and 2 cranes arrived at the ferry only to be precariously shifted to land by the way of planks. After much ‘oohing’ and ‘aahing’, the crowds finally dispersed when the hour long feat of getting all this machinery to land came to an end.
Everyone arrives sans luggage, but with ample cheer for the first session in the evening. Needs lots of rest to start early tomorrow morning!