The River That Ran Uphill

My grandfather told me about a river in Kalimantan that ran uphill. I thought he was joking — rivers simply do not do that. But when I visited his village, I saw it with my own eyes. The water climbed the mountain instead of descending. The villagers used it to water their hilltop gardens without any pumps. They said a very ancient turtle, who had lived for three hundred years, dwelled at the bottom of the river — which was...