The meek home is the longest river in south east asia, the. It bows to rich by diversity and breathtaking wilderness. The river originates in the 2 beds and plan to induce over 4300 kilometers long. The, the space of the river is ever changing at points, it flows slowly through tropical landscapes, but others, it plunges through steep. Gorgeous to meet home is the lifeline of south east asia. Its a transport route for millions of people bringing work and food to many countries. It flows from china threw me on my louse thailand to cambodia and vietnam to the south china sea. Its one of the longest rivers in the world. The were on a journey through northern allows us to explore the landscapes and experience the light back laotian way of life. First time in a small village on the meek, on river lives 50 year old, suck up twice. A day he takes his whole fishing boat out onto the river of a 1200 different species of fish live in the me call, making it one of the most species rich imminent walters on the us. So ive been fishing here for over 22 years now. I moved to the village as a young man to live with my wife. I learned how to fish from the old, a man in the village on mont. Fishing is not my main source of income for love. I also work as a teacher at the Elementary School in the village. Its like a night of advice. Thing is what i like to do the most. Well, i lost the rif awesome. I can always add a little extra. Yeah. So, but doesnt have to keep till quite a recently, soccer has needed. Lots of patients. A big catch is rad these days. But hes still in high spirits. Well out of the most efficient and unfortunately this is not uncommon because of dams signed mining and climate change. Fish populations have been declining in the me call the for to close to where i never moved to movies like its been more difficult to catch fish lazy because the river and the weather ive changed the law. How you, how i can go by the fish somehow seem to move different even they used to come up with. Yeah, i dont understand whats happened with that hope i knew how like the how they didnt put well, but now im gonna keep them as a big soccer has another fishing net that he put out this morning. He attached the net to plastic bottles, so it doesnt sink and he can easily find it again. The fishing was that its such a gray feeling when you catch a big fish feeling and my home with all the out of the day like highlight were going out of in the night. It was a night or anything and, and get that and the money own from selling the fish and the market is important to me. So even if its not much, so it puts to me it was, it was the, theres nothing big in this naturally to bod. Hes called a few small fish, which will be enough to feed his family tonight. The shop 12345. Theyve all prepared his fish come to me and my family will prove them an ethan with sticky rice. And so hancock will have some rice whiskey as well. That goes perfectly with the fish and they live live. I live at kind of the soccer lives with his wife not far from the river. Like the majority of lotions he lives in the country side. It is self sufficient so that the countrys population is under 15 years old. Soccer also has to dont, is the land, blah blah, hit 1st, the slice to finish my time and they have and then put them on the skews and verify the the fishes then left to dry a little in the sun before he fries it in the oil its a traditional, inexpensive lout dash fresh from them. He called the it is located in the hall to southeast asia, a relatively small country, about half the size of from compared to with more developed neighbors, thailand and vietnam. Now is more rustic unless touristy. Its a country state in ancient tradition and known for its relaxed methods and have a way of life. In the mountains, is north of laos, lines. The tranquil city of un prevent many call it the most beautiful city in asia, the new and preventing use the former seat at the royal family. And now are unit sco, World Heritage site. The city has a population of about 70000. That historical town is known for its unique tom and architecture. The as the evening falls to night small k to the wine providing stuff to life and its not any popular with the locals. The, theres a huge variety of food dont offer. Its a beast, but the census the for the equivalent to 0. 50, joyce, and its laotian, soups and meet people. Phenomena leaves me most. The most popular thing we sell is its seaweed from the me call. Ive been working here for 10 years now in the 2nd generation. My parents also, so the coupon l. The anti storm neva, the light pond has also been working at the night market for many years. I sell water, buffalo meat, pork with gar, laker, copper line. Sometimes its eaten with sesame. We fried a water buffalo with bamboo and serve it with sticky rice, the meat taste, sweet and salty. During the pandemic, ben, i pon, had to get creative. That was an easy during the corona virus pandemic. I tried selling online instead of luckily i was able to sell a lot on facebook during that time. So it worked out quite well. A little further on co not make soups, to order from a selection of vegetables, mushrooms, sausage, and toughest. Ive only been selling here for 5 weeks. Well, i also sell online from home to the loan, but i wanted to test the market to see if it would work here to 36 year old kona is now the market every night from 5 to 11 pm. Shes happy so far into fresh soups. Ascending well, the, the monkey just bouncing late into the night. If you stay up late enough, that something completely different to see come early morning, the, the louis on for a bind, religion determines the rhythm left the city. At 4 am. The monks begin that morning, pray concert on god. Then the monks and the temple chunk every day to honor the t to the buddha that shone. Thing is a form of meditation for the mind and body and teaches the monks to become better. People try to get into my the i didnt go on there. Why, how many parents phones this summer to try and become monkeys . What made up the many older men or someone so experienced in life among the who uh civic, come how some of the way off to the pratt, somebody and hundreds of other monks walked silently to the old town. The skating site, or many cold tact, but an ancient buddhist ritual. As a Buddhist Monk working for money, but they didnt. So the monks receive food donations from devout bodies every morning. For them its an honor to night. It increases the chance of a better reincarnation. Traditionally old monks was baffled in the summer when it sometimes reaches over 40 degrees celsius during the day are allowed to wear sandals, america to when we come here every day to give them some food except when were so good now. Um, what a man the countrys traditional spirituality is becoming increasingly entwined with tourism and the ritual of the monks has at times become a tourist spectacle, everyone born so sophie, with a month gone recently, weve had some problems with the tourists because they dont behave respectfully in the to risk sometimes get to know why they take lots of photos and thats the last with the flash one month, which really disturbs the home ceremony. What type of whats the level of going up . The donations that you received during the ons giving include rice skews pumpkin soup sausages, lamb steamed violets and stained fish in phenomenally months, remain silent. Even during breakfast, a particular challenge for the children, the boys can join the monastery at the age of 10. Many families from the region enter that children into the monastery, so they can learn from the months on the phone and couldnt come aboard for a gun success. Phone man, you got some children wants an education, but the families come to fault. The School Feeling comes on here at the time when we teach subjects like english and math. This is a great opportunity for young people to but those older people who have no family will feel lonely. Come to us to find peace and what we are. And i see with bun 5, but the by the time i did just by, while the young monks go off to school, some that takes care of public relations. Digitize ation even has a place at the buddhist monastery these days. The monk regularly live streams is brands and meditation is on his facebook page. If some people dont come here with the saw, the pick you, oh, it is interesting. I want to participate this and i want to be to happy life. And then he can come if this look the picture. So we have to use multiple by 4. Thats why theres no cell phone band in the temple up. The one prevents the, there are more than 7000000 people in mouse who belong to lots of different ethnic groups. The government divides the inhabitants into 3 regional groups. The the highlands allow sions who live in the mountains to help people to move on the mountain slopes. The lowlands allow sions to make up. The knowledge is chance of the population. Almost 2 thirds of all nations live from agriculture, many from rice conservation to staple food and lotion cuisine. But thats still the only reason. Fama den tang grows rice. The 23 year old also gives rise sweatshops for taurus. 2 to prepare the ground for rice conservation 10 must take up the muddy soil and hes helped by susan the wants of buffalo rice panos have been doing this for hundreds of years. Ready ready some pharma who stained some place very 5 a. They have no money to buy the machine thing or track the day they used to own buffalo because normally one family davis very little for the family to eat. So they dont need the machine. The rice is one of the worlds most important food crumbs and tourist. So keen to learn about a t. A den welcomes gases from all over the world today from new zealand, single pole from germany, and the seat deform. Last, how this last crop. So we want to plan the seat today. Any one you ready . Normally i was born in the assembly of the family. So when i was young, i follow with my parents to to feel this. And then we just learned by looking or see how to do scan started working on the psalm at age 14. He also went to school here, but completed his High School Diploma in the city. Now hes back on the farm, growing rice and showing taurus surround the aerobic if you germany and they see the roots, very long roads. When de we denied and it bit it grow very easily. Yeah. You can see for additional rice conservation involves a lot of manual labor when the rice ponds. So one month old then move to the fields where they have more space to grow and help to prevent weeds. The tourist helped to refund them. The, the only 3 finger. So if you put the whole hand, itd be close. So you have to put only 3 finger, stick it to do much. That is, yeah, just to make sure you arise standing nicely. To grow, right . The traditional way. You have to put your back into it the this from here they quit lucky this the, and the waterfall. They can go right only around. But normally for a local farmer, they do only 2 times a year, each a single loose and as you hold it is it takes 4 to 5 months for the rice plans to run. Going to harvesting this stage is also hard work. The tiny rice cranes all hayton at the top of the stokes and need to be removed from the panels. Traditional farmers thrash their rice by hand. They look different and conduce upside down. Put it forward, the buttons grab it around its not easy as the tourists quickly find out the, you know, week for a family of 4 or 5 people about 20 to 30 kilograms. If you want to cope sticker, right . Thats one bag of rice per week. The loud sions use it to make that sticky. Rice have to cool. Before you quote it, you will have to sell your rice in the water 1st. So you have to soak, you just have a rice, you put it to the normal water, clean and brand. What out put new water in and lived the rise there for one day or one night. So that is maximum, but minimum is 2 hours. The grains of sticky rise glued together and separate again when they come into contact with us. So the tough job for, for a bo live right uh the. Ready the the me calling reba storms 800 kilometers of the border between thailand and louse. And theyre all visible differences between the 2 sides. While on the ty site there are lots of mountain buildings. On the laotian side, there is more traditional villages surrounded by nature. There are also a few tories about sailing on the me called the kalonde is the captain of a small crew ship to 72 year old yourself and on the river for many weeks. Then all the people thought i might call them this my life. My been working on the me calling since i was 17 years old and you get a name and i was just a bridge where i work hung up. Then i have for jan rice, so i dont have to leave the bridge during the journey. Hows the wife on the bed . And im in and this is my buddhist train. The guards me and bless as me was good fortune. When i travel i dont hold on, hold on for them. And this is where i sleep for of a sleep here, equal to captains mechanic who are the main control. Next engineer. I mean they just come down to Something Like that. That sounds good. I think energy is doing a cargo boat. The transported goods. Are you my father showed me every rock and every rapid to watch i are but, and thats why im an expert to data. Like top down, give me put you. Juan still has to take tons with another captain, the pots up the river. He doesnt know that well, that go, how would it be here . What i learned the route from right from buying a to vmc, im from my father and i bought the alaska. If you want to seal here, youd have to sell you the route for 5 to 10 years. So you can try, but it takes time. The id be theres this dont time today for the tourist to both the me count some for this. Go on. Must kathy moore, his ship on the unpaid Charles Klein also. Now this difficult maneuver from his father. The chef lee neu, is responsible for the catering of the 28. 00 tourists on board. The 33 year old wants to use the trip a show to go shopping at the market. That sort of thing to me. Give me the zip quintile left. Im working on the ship for 17. Yeah, someone who, im now the head shack of a 3 member Kitchen Table i havent allowed to buy it allows you have a lot of video. Okay. The, the noise is also on the boat for several weeks. You rarely see these little dogs at the end, but its a sacrifice hes learned to live with. Being a chef with these green jobs since he has 10 years old. Being 5, i always likes to cook at home being guy, especially duck and fish, just like i told i dont mind home today. Li, noise menu features a traditional laotian soup and for this he needs lots of fresh vegetables, plus some salad and fruit. Everything is fresh and local even the contains on the grill, which li noise enjoys was a mid day snack. The currency here is loud kemp. 10 euros is the equivalent of over 180000 kemp. You can often paying dollars all the time. Ah, 10. 00 as well. Racing with what a 100 and well take some beans. We have a new us. Can i get 3 bundles for 10000 . Think im lumina as well, but ill give you 2 for 10000 company. Do you still have . I mean, depending, but yeah, i have some back here, especially harvested yesterday. Okay. Then ill take some more thoughtful coolant 10000. 00 to together. Okay, fine. Im not gonna be able to get good to go through the same time. So im just kind of, you have to haggle with this templates in the house. You always have to haggle, its just part of shopping. Otherwise you will have to pay and you wont get a good price. It goes to close out the little how about the hold up in the oh. Now hes just missing one final very special ingredient. His su a little bit. So now i should have everything for tonight so you should be in the accounting. Im quite happy with the price is how good . Well yeah, the motions of quite expensive was 820. So 100 grams evening. Thats quite a long time. 600. Its just a short ride on allows taxi back to the ship where he starts preparing the evening meal. The law, the kitchen team basically gets on with the cooking, kept in one so its relaxed at the wheel. He knows these routes inside out. He doesnt need a navigation system, but at some point he may need to use Satellite Technology because the river is changing rapidly. The water levels fluctuate more because of the dams in china and thailand, which has a huge impact, villages have to be relocated. There are a few a nutrients in the water and fish a dying theyve run into some difficulties today. The water level is quite low, endangered, assigned banks are forming in the river. One has to concentrate again and we got a new, im not scared. I know my sham well, and i knew what it can do. High that he there on the last trip planned, mocked particularly shallow response with stakes, which now floats in the river like boys. The captain asked the team member to check the depth of the board to just in case one hasnt run a ground on assigned to banking over 50 years, but only a few contents on the me come can claim that the eventually that out of danger and to me comb, some has plenty of water on the hook key again the and while its calm again and the bridge down in the kitchen, its full steam ahead. The team is busy cooking the suit, the by the most important ingredients. Officials and spices it gets halt in the crime to county im on the see sometimes it gets up to 40 degrees down and i looked up my funny book. So i have to cook for over 28 people who at home. And now for the last the noise wouldnt trade his jump on the ship with anyone on land to my my favorite place to work is on the ship. People. Yeah. And you see sign much great nature, the small villages and all the people in the bank see why the bottom its very special. I wouldnt want to give it tom. Good. Perfect. Ok, good. Really delicious. About really good laotian food. So i have just have to be careful with the teenage competed for the life. Sions i put in 10 or 15 pounds for the tourists, maybe one more. Any way of getting the once the food is instead of jonathan given to the guests, which has consumed coordinate to day the evening, my philosophy because i love cooking very much. Its after a day, like today im most up pretty tied in the gas. Its enjoyed the soup, even if it is a bit spicy than usual and today the someone who also knows about good taste is 67 year old, some chum. She makes a own whiskey from rice, but shes feeling worried about the future of our business. The life is good for us here in the village. We have everything we need here. The food we eat is a gift from nature. But we have big problems because of the dams that are being built here by the investors. They keep buying up our field and our villagers dont have bills to grow rice, which i also need for my whiskey. In some childrens village, 5 families alone lived from this town of rice, whiskey governing method, the whisky recipe is a family tradition. Thats very old. So im trauma doesnt like alcohol himself, but there are plenty of people who do lots of locals by and drink the spin rate. Its cheap and doesnt require many ingredients. Name and co signed co, just you dickie rice and use powder and name and ben. Its mixed well together, so that a compliment the the left in the barrels for a week. Then some trauma, taste, the liquid, and sometimes and so little water. A week later, the mentor liquid is boiled. So until the boiling phase is always exciting. Thats what determines the alcohol level. We need some chum measures the temperature 70 degrees below the thats about right. Lets do some shopping produces of of 500 liters a month. She then sells the bottles to trade is on the market. Model cost is 30000. 00 k, thats about one you wrote 60 but the profits onto enough to do everything shed like a living only. I would like to repair my house and help the poor people in the village so they can send their children to school. Along the me Calling River many people live in poverty and many houses are in poor condition. The louse is a full country, and the corona virus crisis has compounded the struggles of allow economy even further. But with the easing of depend demik in chinas new silk road, lotions, hope the Economic Situation will improve slowly things of picking up again, at least in the villages, people benefit from the free natural Building Material that surrounds them. Some peoples like calling me even bill. That house is completely by themselves from bamboo. Uh well, today we have to repair a wall in our house because the old one broken it rained in. The nice for our daughter front door that happens all the time. Hopefully get it done today, but then in my apartment from when i didnt even have here, this is the old well and all these holes are where the mice eaten to it. The mice are a big problem. So now let me go up to 28 year old call me inherited the house from his parents. He now lives here with his brother, his wife and dad. Daughter, please call me as a pharma and growth cassava the edible root of a tropical tree. They have to renew the bamboo bowls roughly every 10 years, which call me now knows how to do very well. How about when a is oh and this is the bamboo from the forest is free. So when it hit nice email there and just take as much as we need, allow hang up, i dont have to pay anything for it. And i dont have to go to the city. I remember. So you gotta be saying that is good. I can work with whats already growing around. I hang a funny on family life, but we still have to process the band concert into stripling slides and right, because otherwise, it will bend under the heat of the sun a chromebook to settle a lot of work to do to help the heck out of the the who is an important result was for many people across asia, its a fast growing natural material that can be used not tiny to build houses and furniture. Many also use it as firewood, even as food call me and his wife a building the new wall. Once its finished, it will be water proof and relatively storm proof. Yeah, you, my leg was a lot and i prefer village life to city lights. And on my how give me a city you need a lot of money to cover all the expensive box. And i in the village, you dont need so much money factor black um that link. I mean when you buy that and again. But you know, future, im hoping to save some money to buy a small truck. Thats what i buy. Its no easy, but it would help us on the visit. I had a truck i could take microsoft at the city so they are, is a higher prizing the name and everything will be good. And then to muddle through the phone by kind of little a neighbor helps called me to install the new back to a few nails here and that and the house is fine. And the roof had to love with that. I couldnt sleep before because of all the holes. I need it to night. Ill sleep silently again. The, the 10 family also has their own house with a garden. Take ro, chinese ginger, also called fingerprint, supplant is related to ginger, but the taste isnt quite a spicy. The root is used as a spice and tie carry, added china as an additional problem to use the objective card. Its good for iraqi arms and legs by headaches. And this, and i already have a few of the blonde, so grinding just behind the 10 families house. This is how we pick them up with all the root. So the we also use the leaks. Ok. How many we cut the roots into slices and dry them in the sun. The chinese ginger originally comes from the mountainous regions of china. But today its growing across most of south east asia. Once a year, the time the families sounds almost veteran tile hobbies to china because thats where they on the most money and they can live well from it. This also saves the time, find me the trip to the market in the capital, which lies if you kilometers about the south along the river. The v n t on is located directly on the bank. So to me, come river. Its a charming city with its many temples, possibly markets, and historic buildings. Traditions are preserved alongside them old mountain way of life. The Fashion Design of va income lives in that city, hostile sounds, top quality, wave, ensconced, closing, and bangs make itself or idea to combine the old with the new has been a great success. No, i used to, we have traditional patterns, but then i realized that everyone does that. So i want it to design patterns that would be interesting for tourist lackland. Now i make modern design that incorporate traditional allow patterns and motif back for the kid they she designed the items on display here south. The income is one of the most successful business women in the capital. Pat, this is a traditional low pattern, now lies printing at the top. Its traditional, but ive combined it with a new modern style at the bottom and the patterns on the soak still go together and uh say uh my customers like the style and it sells. Well, okay, inside my organs, i know how many boom nissan needs the va income sounds please. Typo scott, for the equivalent of about 200 us on affordable to most loud ships that have popular susan here with the tourist customers and my store comfortable all over the world. But most of the scarves i explored are to japan and america and then produced right in the backyard. A 1000 women sit that lose. It takes one person about 2 weeks to make one of the expensive sale, scotts, when i come from the ethnic group, red tide in northern allows. In the past, women were taught to prepare themselves to leave home and become good wives. They had to learn to weave and cook, since women to receive no schooling, finding a good husband always depended on how well they could bring it down in some hole in the va income takes good care of weavers and make sure they have everything they need time ive been working on this car for 6 days so far. I love working with the va income is a member of the allow handicraft association. Its important to have that pool of female workers are supported under that work. It paid valley funds the income expects. Good. Well, in real time, she always overseas the production of the scouts of south. What happened you have to do the Quality Control very carefully meeting is not that easy for me to sell the scarves. Well, every centimeter needs to be correct. The income has been recognized. Internationally for the quality of a watch, and shes always got new ideas in the pipeline. And i would like to open many more stores with young people who are creative and motivated the night. Despite the setbacks of the pond, demick louse has made good strides to count poverty and hunger over the last 20 years. The. Its also a country of great beauty, rich culture and serenity. The theres an old long process that says the whys do know terry. And those who harry felt a wise the other kid inspired by a free man is confident bursting with create to the team leads to designers and Cultural Icons between lifestyle and comics as diverse and exciting as the content in itself is free back in 30 minutes on the w or the we say theyre about never getting up every weekend on d w. What is it really is possible to reverse page researchers and scientists all over the world for you know, race against time. 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