PAYIN RIVER

In dry times, the approaches of the Payin River, once of a wild beauty, turn into a huge area of rock extraction. This illegal plunder is being carried out under the nose of the administration, which closes its eyes with high bribes. Makeshift camps are installed on the sand benches and from morning to night, men and women charient stones outside the riverbed. A High Court judgment of January 2010 banned the use of machines to extract stones. Since then, extraction is done by hand. You fill the sand benches with shovels, fill the boats on board, and you return to the shore to unload their loot. Women wear heavy stones filled with stones that they go back to trucks. These are then issued in crushing areas, where the gravel stones used for construction work throughout the country are converted. The fate of these men and women, paid for a wage of poverty, is simply appalling, as is the degradation imposed on the environment. This looting dries off the river and diverts its course, causing damage to the nearby tea plantation during monsoon times. However, the ballet of the boats, the holder's columns, which are like ants are an indescribable fascination in this supernatural setting of open-sky gang.

Bazaar: souvenir stalls are installed in wooden huts covered with plastic canvas. Most vendors offer polished and painted stones that can be personalized. You will also find some members of the tribe Kashin who came to sell woven fabrics by them.