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We have almost reached our destination. We will spend a couple of days in a Garo village. I'll introduce you to the Garo people next. But here in the late afternoon the light provides a tranquil scene, although the reality is very different. It is a hard life. For more than six months of the year these villages are completely cut off from the rest of the country, and for the remaining time only accessible by motorbike and boat as I have shown you. All goods have to be transported by boat. Their houses are inadequate to cope with the rain of the monsoon or the heat of the summers, or indeed the cold of the winter..