Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Where I went - up to the cave temple - stopping at the weaving village, and returning down stream, stopping at the whisky village

River boats

Unloading

My man, the boat driver

Driver, boat and gangplang

Ferry crossing the Mekong

And a guy fishing by net

Fishing net

Pulling the fishing net

Riverboat

Riverboat

Swimming in the Mekong

Umbrella fishing

Mekong Countryside

Family life on the river

Three boats

My boat on the Mekong River

Stop at the weaving village

Weaving silk

Trimming

Preparing the loom

Shuttle motion

Loom

Showroom - really nice silk skirts and table cloths - S$5 - 10

Shuttle action

Weaving

Adjusting the loom

Weaving

All day weaving

Silk spinning

Loom and spinner apparatus

Weaving on the porch

Want elephant dung paper. Its actually quite interesting

A road less traveled - but often walked

Making paper

Lifting wet paper

Drying paper

After inserting flowers and leaves

Walking back the lady is now spinning silk

More about spinning

Walking back to my personal transport

More to come

C. Frank Starmer

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