Coming ashore at Ban Baw
Floating shop at Ban Baw
Kind of a Mini Mart on the high way
Floating shop at Ban Baw
Kind of a Mini Mart on the high way
Waiting for the boat
Stairs to the village
Floating highway Mini Mart
Leaving Mekong behind walking to Ban Baw village
We didn't come long before we ran in to children selling stuff
Bamboo
Bamboo
Bamboo
Bamboo
noun
[MASS NOUN] a giant woody grass which grows chiefly in the tropics, where it is widely cultivated.
• Bambusa and other genera, family Gramineae.
♦ the hollow jointed stem of this plant, used as a cane or to make furniture and implements.
ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from Dutch bamboes, based on Malay mambu.
An evergreen woody-stemmed plant belonging to the grass family. The 200 or so species of bamboo, which are widely distributed, are grouped into several genera. They may vary in height from a few centimetres (a few inches) to 30 m (100 feet) or more.
The hard-skinned stems are very durable and have many uses, including building, furniture making, basketry, and as garden canes. The flowering of bamboos is very unusual. It usually occurs at indefinite and lengthy intervals of up to 120 years, and often results in the death of the plant.
Village temple
Village temple
Village temple
The whole village was like a market selling fabric (They told us it was handmade silk)
The whole village was like a market selling fabric (They told us it was handmade silk)
The whole village was like a market selling fabric (They told us it was handmade silk)
The whole village was like a market selling fabric (They told us it was handmade silk)
The whole village was like a market selling fabric (They told us it was handmade silk)
Making alcohol
Handmade silk
When we were there they were quick to man all the looms placed along the dust road around the village.
Well, what do I know, could as well was machine weave cotton from China for sale
Made by our Chinese friends?
Using clothes peg to be able to keep their eyes open when the working day approach 20 hours
I wonder what their parents had for hopes for their children when they were born.
Yiiiipppeeeee! They will grow up to be slave labours working 20 hours per day. And who wants to buy stuff they have made? Imagine giving clothes to your own children made by these two child!
And European Union, the TWATS, still wonder how they should get the European youth in to work.
Well, go to China, there you have the answer!
IMAGINE IF IT WAS YOUR CHILDREN!
The children is still there selling souvenirs
Time to leave the Ban Baw village
Time to leave the Ban Baw village