11. In the misty Blue Mountains, bamboo rafts were loaded with bananas and poled down the Rio Grande to the wharves of Port Antonio. 12. Others chanced the crossing on bamboo rafts. 13. Severin first goes to Vietnam to learn the ancient art of building bamboo rafts from fishermen. 14. The rickety bamboo raft bumped over the smooth stones and water sprayed through the spaces in the bottom. 15. The village is the starting point for soothing trips down the Great River on bamboo rafts. 16. We spent a lot of time on our private balcony, perched so close to the water we felt we were floating on a bamboo raft. 17. He said the bamboo raft had been built only with instruments that would have been available to ancient sailors living around Roti. 18. Hundreds of them drowned when they tried to cross the river on bamboo rafts during heavy rains Thursday night. 19. Many are so fragile they have never been displayed since being hastily packed and carted here from Beijing by trucks, bamboo rafts and then warships. 20. Some have ventured across on precarious bamboo rafts built by fishermen. |