Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Hitting a Plateau

Today, my new-found-friend Jeff and I, with a handful of other tourists, took a tour of the Bolaven Plateau, which consisted of watching people hand-pick tea leaves at a plantation...


... seeing three different waterfalls...



... and learning about different varieties of coffee from our tour guide.

But the best part was visiting a village with two different ethnic groups where we had a chance to meet some of the people and see them in their daily lives. At times it felt a little strange to enter this village and watch the people, but we tried to interact as much as possible, which was very difficult because they don't speak Lao, let alone English.


This is our tour guide smoking from the village's pipe, which some people on our tour did.

But for the most part, we played with the kids and handed out bananas to them.


While most of the kids were really gregarious, the children in the picture below were a little shy at first...
... but as soon as I showed them the image on my camera's screen, they became very enthusiastic about having their picture taken.

The image below is specifically for my nieces and nephews. If you lived in Laos, you would have to carry Mary on your back like this all the time so Mom could get some work done. What do you think, Michelle? Good plan?

1 comment:

Bill said...

They might like that, 'cause they carry her all day on their hips or arms...sso Mom can get some work done. lol