Journey deep into Mru country – up until very recently closed to outsiders! This tribal rich area is home to over half a million indigenous people From 16 ethnic groups. Enjoy river cruises and easy jungle hikes into Mru villages, where men and women still wear loincloths and do not cut their hair and wear them in a topknot. Due to extreme isolation, their traditional lifestyle and pristine foothill environment remains fairly intact. See Jhoom (slash and burn) cultivation, waist-loom weaving and music played with bagpipe-like bamboo and gourd flutes.
In Dhaka, view the striking National Assembly building designed by the renowned architect Louis Kahn. Visit the Ethnological Museum and hike through forested hill tracts to meet the friendly Mru tribes in their remote villages that, until recently, were closed to outsiders! Learn about the foothill ecology and cruise to local villages to experience rural life.
