In the far north of Myanmar, bordering India to the west, Tibet to the north and China to the east, lies a little known, seldom visited area of the world.
The largest river in Myanmar, the muddy, mighty Ayerarwaddy, rises here in the eastern Himalaya at the confluence of two rivers, the Maykha and the Malikha, beginning its sinuous journey southwards via Mandalay and Rangoon to the Bay of Bengal.
Click here for the story of the first descent of the Malikha River by a team of rafters and kayakers (PDF 365k). The expedition involved descending almost 300km of river with a vertical descent equivalent to that of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.
