Meghalaya: The Wettest Place on Earth.
梅加拉亞邦：地球上最潮濕的地方
In a scene played out every weekday morning, students of the RCLP School in Nongsohphan Village, Meghalaya, India, cross a bridge grown from the roots of a rubber tree. In the relentless damp of Meghalaya's jungles, wooden structures rot away too quickly to be practical. For centuries the Khasi people have instead used the trainable roots of rubber trees to "grow" bridges over the region's rivers. (© Amos Chapple)
A local guide demonstrates a tree root bridge being developed to replace an older, circuitous route across a gorge deep in the jungle near Mawsynram. (© Amos Chapple) #
In the valley beneath Mawsynram, the village of Nongriat maintains the best-known example of the "living bridges" which have been used for centuries in the region. (© Amos Chapple) #
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A young fisherman walks under the ancient tree root bridge at Mawlynnong village. (© Amos Chapple) #
The village of Mawsynram, claiming to have the highest average rainfall on Earth. Perched atop a ridge in the Khasi Hills of India's northeast, the village receives 467 inches of rain per year - thirteen times that of Seattle. The heavy rainfall is due to summer air currents sweeping over the steaming floodplains of Bangladesh, gathering moisture as they move north. When the resulting clouds hit the steep hills of Meghalaya they are "squeezed" through the narrowed gap in the atmosphere and compressed to the stage they can no longer hold their moisture, causing the near constant rain the village is famous for. (© Amos Chapple) #
Three laborers walk into Mawsynram under the traditional Khasi umbrellas known as knups. Made from bamboo and banana leaf, the knups are favored for allowing two-handed work, and for being able to stand up to the high winds which lash the region during heavy rainstorms. (© Amos Chapple) #
Laborers wearing knups clear rockfall after a night of heavy rain in Mawsynram. Major repair works are impossible through the monsoon rains but these men are tasked with keeping the roads passable until October when the rainy season ends and the contractors' heavy machinery can be brought in. They earn $2.60 per day. (© Amos Chapple) #
Winchester Lyngkhoi carries fresh meat up to his butcher's stall on market day. When asked if it was hard to live with so much rain, the 26 year old replied, "we can't think about that. Here there's always rain but we have to work, so it's no good wondering about it." (© Amos Chapple) #
Clouds curl over the eastern edge of the village where cliffs drop almost vertically to the floodplains below. (© Amos Chapple) #
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Meghalaya: The Wettest Place on Earth - In Focus - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/08/meghalaya-the-wettest-place-on-earth/100797/
Meghalaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghalaya
梅加拉亞邦 - 維基百科，自由的百科全書
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