Happy to report that I made it through the night with out any insect bites. However a spider the size of a Ford Ka was perched in the rafters all night. I was too terrified to even take a photo, some jungle spiders are known to like photographers even less than Russell Crowe does.
- no it's not my school photo, it's lunch (well someones anyway)Breakfast is hard boiled eggs and a loaf of toast each with jam from the local market; jungle tea (tastes like lapsang shoe box to me) or Nescafe, ah the great taste of freeze dried coffee all the way out here in the jungle.....
local boy, in local costume: making small boys wear smocks is how the whole lady-boy thing starts I'm sure.
local tribal girl, grinding maize before rushing off to get more Nescafe.....
wilderness at first lightStill life is good, it's another baking hot day and we balance over tree trunks thrown accross streams and traverse fallow rice and maize fields in scenes disturbingly reminiscient of about every Vietnam war movie I've ever seen.
- carefull, that's easily a two foot drop into two foot of water...
Look girls a really cute village puppy.....Amidist this beautiful, if sometimes arid landscape, are small tribal villages and isolated farmsteads that retain their own unique magic, snapshots of a kind of simple,natural beauty too long eviscerated from our modern urban imaginations.
Ok that's it from me for today. Next: Elephant Rafting!
2 comments:
Just a wee facto, but most American Vietnam films were in fact filmed in Thailand!!! Your wee bruv. !
Oh bless...some really cute photos. Isn't it just amazing how far the brand of nescafe has travelled. Sadly, freeze dried often means nasty insoluble lumps to chase around the cup, happy hunting! T x
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