Bangladesh man finds perfect happiness up a palm tree

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007

DHAKA (AFP) — Tired of trying to get a bit of peace and quiet in one of the world's most densely populated countries, a Bangladeshi man with a head for heights has hit on the perfect solution.

Each day carpenter and aspiring writer Salim Hossen Gaus, aged 25, winches himself 30 metres (100 feet) in a precarious home-made pulley to a small wooden platform he has built at the top of a palm tree.

"I spend four to five hours minimum in the tree reading and writing, listening to the birds chirping," he said, adding that his favourite authors were Shakespeare and the Nobel laureate, Bengali writer and poet Rabindranath Tagore.

"The isolation is very pleasing. I don't get any disturbance from people and no-one can distract me from my literary works," he said....