The Great Chain Bridge

This huge suspension bridge crosses the Jumpa River and is one of the only ways to access Ra-Khati although the path is fraught with peril.

Approaching from Ra-Khati the road leads along the side of the Gogrus River until it joins up in a thousand foot waterfall where it joins the Jumpa Gorge. Reaching the gorge the roadway leads to a pair of chains with links as big around as a man’s waist run across the canyon. From the chain links, which are scaly and orange with rust, hang fresh hemp ropes supporting a platform of interwoven ropes and planks.

The path into the plains of purple dust leads from the bridge down a shallow valley between dusty and wind scoured hills that eventually reaches the city of Kushk.

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