KOPPELQUESTS - Photo Gallery

3/5/2004

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Our hike through a bamboo forest 		IMGP2510
This boy is carrying ant nests to his village. The villagers fry and eat the ant eggs that are inside. 		IMGP2514
This man is stirring a boiling pot of the syrup that has been pressed from the raw sugar cane. 		IMGP2515
This is used to press sugar cane into syrup. It's powered by an ox that walks around the circle. 		IMGP2517
These are the finished bricks of sugar
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A grandmother and her grandson - this family has been making sugar for 8 years. 		IMGP2524
Pouring the cooling syrup into the molds 		IMGP2525
Completing the process - the syrup hardened within a few minutes. 		IMGP2527
They start playing with knives at an early age here! 		IMGP2528
The second village that we visited today, a midland village called Ban Houey Ko
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A group of village children. Most women give birth to 8-10 children, but only 5-7 survive to their teenage years. 		IMGP2534
Mother and child, watching activity in the village from their window 		IMGP2536
This 11 year old girl is pounding rice