Amur: The forbidden River – Asia’s Amazon

We did a lot of shots for the three episodes documentary “Amur“. Here two breakdowns. AN EPIC WATERSCAPE In Northeast Asia, stretching for 5,000 kilometres from Mongolia eastward to Russia’s Pacific coast and from Siberia southward to China and North Korea, lies the sprawling basin of the Amur River. The Amur or Heilongjiang, as it is called in China, is one of the planet’s ten mightiest rivers, yet it is hardly known to westerners. For two thousand kilometres, it forms the border between Russia and China – one of the reasons why much of this region used to be a secret, a forbidden zone. Connecting a great variety of landscapes and climates, the Amur’s network of countless rivers includes the planet’s vastest expanses of wild grassland, mountain tundra, boreal forest, volcanic moonscapes, floodplains and wetlands, subtropical forests, the pristine coast of the North Pacific as well as some of Asia’s most productive farmland.