A bridge that is still becoming a bridge

The path down to Nongriat is counted in steps, but that is the least interesting way to measure it. The useful measure is shade, rain and how often a stranger makes room for you on the stairs.

A root bridge is guided rather than assembled. One generation starts a line it may never cross; another inherits the work and keeps training it over the river.

Travel is better when a place is not reduced to an attraction. Here, the bridge is not a monument behind a rope. It is alive, used and still unfinished.