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Hot season is the ideal time to rethatch the roofs, before the rains come.

Posted on May 8, 2012 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Akha headdress styles differ for unmarried and married women. I don't know if there's a distinction between "tiny child" and "unmarried woman" though.

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This Akha woman lives in the house behind her with four younger generations of her family.

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Mini shop that the Akha women immediately set up when we arrived. Beautiful stuff--well, some of it--but it's still a bit annoying that attemped sales are such a big a part of trekking in eastern Shan State.

Posted on May 7, 2012 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Most of the fabrics woven on these narrow looms were for personal use, not for tourist souvenirs.

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Homemade rice liquor, stored in gas cans and funneled into an old water bottle. The Akha family sells a kilo of liquor for twice the price of a kilo of raw rice, but when the amount of time and work in making the wine was considered, the profit seemed less significant.

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Young novices conscripted into building their own monastery.

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Young novices conscripted into building their own monastery.

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In the dry rice paddy.

(Note the boys in the back have balloons. Again.)

Posted on May 4, 2012 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Temporary monkhood doesn't prevent young lads from smoking cigs on their motorbikes and rolling up on the "angels" who sell roadside liquor.

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Baby monks.

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Energetic little girl finally managed to dress herself so I could take a photo.

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Some organized tour group reached a few villages just before we did and would distribute balloons each time...kept encountering scenes like this.

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