And breathtaking wilderness. The river originates in that event and planned to induce over falls 1300 kilometers long. The, the face of the river is ever changing at points that flow slowly through tropical landscapes at others, it plunges through steep. Gorgeous to meet home is the long sign of south east asia. Its a transport route and millions of people bringing work and food to many countries. It flows from china through me on my louse, thailand, to cambodia and vietnam, to the south china sea. Its one of the longest rivers in the wells. The. Were on a journey through northern allows to explore the landscapes and experience the layback laotian way of life. The 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 20 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. How long fishing is not my main source of income loss. I also work as a teacher at the Elementary School in the village. Its like a data publishing is what i like to do the most. Well i lost the roof. 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 read these days. But hes still in high spirits. Well i know its the most efficient and unfortunately this is no time comment because of times 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 can the fish somehow seem to move differently than they used to come up with . Now . I dont understand whats happened with a whole new day. How like how they didnt put well, but now im gonna keep that on as is a big cycle. It 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 efficient work that its such a gray feeling when you catch a big fish in the field and my home at the end of the day like highlight the the night of the night or anything. And if it doesnt mean the money we own from selling the fish and the market is important to me. So even if its not much to pop to me, it was, it was the is nothing begun this nat honda but hes called a few small fish, which will be enough to feed his family tonight. The shy 12345. Theyve all prepared. His fish, some nice for me and my family will grow with them and even 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 kindly keep this 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, though that the countrys population is under 15 years old. Soccer also has 2 daughters, the land ma then hit 1st, a slice to finish up on top of that and then put them on skews and verify from the the fish has been left to dry and little in the sun before he fries it in oil. Its a traditional and expensive loud dash fresh from the me call. The house is located in the heart of southeast asia, a relatively small country, about half the size of from compared to its most developed neighbors, thailand and vietnam. Now is more rustic unless touristy. Its a country state in ancient tradition and known for its relaxed, meditative way of life. In the mountains, is north of laos, lines the tranquil city of lou on prevent. Many call it the most beautiful city in asia, the new and preventing use the former seats of the royal family and now a unesco well and heritage side, the city has a population of about 70000. That historical town is known for its unique tom and donkey tank gym the as the evening falls, the 9th monkey to blank providing stuff to life. And its not any popular with the local the, theres a huge variety of food on all of that. Its a piece but the census, the for the equivalent of 0. 50, joyce, and its laotian, soups and meets people. Phenomena leaves me most the most popular thing we sell is dave, how do you see read from the me call ive been working here for 10 years now in the 2nd gender. I guess my parents also. So the tunnel and the storm neva v like palm has also been working at the night market for many years. A parcel water buffalo meat like a pork with garlic or copper line. Sometimes its eaten with sesame. We fried a water buffalo with bamboo and serve it with sticky rice, the meat taste, sweet consulting during the pandemic benign 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 ive only been selling here for 5 weeks. I will, 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 at the market every night from 5 to 11 pm. Shes happy so far into fresh soups, selling well, the, the monkey just bouncing late into the night. If you stay up late enough, thats something completely different to see. Come early morning. The, the long provide religion determines the rhythm. The 1st city at 4 am the monk speaking them morning, proud the concert more than god. Then the monks and the temple chomp every day to honor the d to the buddha. That tron saying is a form of meditation for the mind and body and teachers, the monks to become better people. They gave me so by the i didnt go on there. Why, how many parents wont best sums to try and become monkish . What maybe up the many old them and also im going to experience provider of among the who civic come, how some of the way off to the pratt some that and hundreds of other monks walked silently to the old town to the arms, giving cetera many gold tack bought an ancient buddhist ritual. As a Buddhist Monk working for money is spent, 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 bank to reincarnation. Traditionally old monks week baffled in the summer when it sometimes reaches over 40 degrees celsius during the day are allowed to wear sandals. America. We come here every day to give them some food except when were so good. Now 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 or Everyone Wants to sophie with them. On the, on the recently weve had some problems with the tourists because they dont behave respectfully in the to its 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. Whats one of the donations they received during the arms giving include rice skews pumpkin soup sausages, lamb stained pilot and stained fish in been on any 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 run from the months on the phone and couldnt come aboard for a gun success. For me, you got some children wants an education, but the families come to for the school feeling. Im so here at the time of what we teach subjects like english and math. This is a great opportunity for young people to love. Those older people who have no family will feel lonely. Come to us to find peace more clear and i see with 15, but do by the time i did as a little by while the young monks go off to school, some bad 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 meditations on his facebook page. If some people dont come here with the saw, the pick you all, all it is the listing. I want to participate this and i want to be to happy life. And, and did he can come this, look the picture. So we have to use multiple by 4. Thats why theres no cell phone band in the temple of flu lang 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. And the lowlands allow sions to make up. The knowledge is sham of the population. Almost 2 thirds of all nations live from agriculture, many from rice conservation to staple food and lotion quizzing. But thats still the only reason fama den tang grows rice. The 23 year old also gives rice when shops for taurus to prepare the ground for rice conservation, then must take off the muddy soil and hes helped by susan the wants of buffalo rice panos. Theyve 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 attack the day they used to own buffalo because normally when family to be found very little for the family to eat. So they dont need the machine. The price is one of the worlds most important and food crumbs and tourists. A keen to learn about a den welcomes gases from over the world. Today from new zealand, single poll from germany, and the see if im last how this last crop. So we want to plan this seat today. Anyone . You ready . Mm. Normally i was born in the assembly of the family. So when i was young, i followed my parents to to feel this. And then they just learned by looking or see how to scan started working on the som, at age 14. He also went to school here but completed his High School Diploma in the city. Now his back on the farm growing rice and showing taurus surround the aerobic if you germany and they see the root 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 that move to the fields where they have more space to grow, attempt to prevent weeds, the tourist helped to retain 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 the amount that is. Yeah. Just make sure you arises, 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 rise all year around. But normally for a local farmer, they do only 2 times a year. Each stickle, the reason is you hold it is it takes 4 to 5 months for the rice pounds the rankin to harvesting the 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 rule for a family of 4 or 5 people about 20 to 30 kilograms. If you want to cook stick or right, thats one bag of rice per week. The allow sions use it to make that sticky rice have to go before you called 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 threatened to water out put new water in and leave the rise there for one day or one night. So that is maximum, but minimum is 2 hours. The grains of sticky rice glue together and separate again when they come into contact with a song a tough job for, for a bow live right. Uh the. Ready the, the me comb with us alms 800 kilometers of the border between thailand and laos. And there are visible differences between the 2 sides. While on the ty site, there are lots of mountain buildings. On the laotian side, there is small traditional villages surrounded by nature. There are also a few tories by sailing on the me call. The one is the captain of a small crew ship. The 72 year old is off and on the river for many weeks. Then tom and then went to nobody. I dont mind calling this my life. My been working on the me calling since i was 17 years old. Legally. I mean, 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 didnt hold on hold of them down. And this is where i sleep for of a sleep here equal to captains mechanic data megatron x engineer. I mean, they just come down to Something Like that. That sounds like the energy is doing a cargo, but with the transported goods, are you . My father showed me every rock and every rapid to watch. I mean, thats why im an expert to data like top down, did anybody else juan still has to take tons with another captain, the pots of the river. He doesnt know that well, and there was like how, how would it be here . You would learn the route from line for back to the n c m for 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 versus dont time today for the tories to both. The me come some for this. Go on. Must kathy moore, his ship on the on page Charles Klein also now this difficult maneuver from his father. The chef lee neu. K is responsible for the catering of the 28 tourists on board. The 33 year old wants to use the trip a show to go shopping at the market. For the thinking to me, give me the zip quintile. Ive been working on the ship for 17. Yeah. Someone who im now the head shift of a 3 member kitchen team that ive had with a lot of. I bet on that. You have a lot video. Okay. The, the noise is also on the boat for several weeks. You rarely sees these little doors at the end, but its a sacrifice hes learned to live with being a chef with these green jobs since he is 10 years old. The b 5 i always likes to cook being guy, especially duck and fish, just like i told i dont run home today. Li, noise menu features a traditional exemption 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 of the. The currency here is allow kemp. 10 euros is the equivalent of over 180000 kemp. You can often pain dollars all the time. Bond in dallas as well. Actually with whatever height and well take some beans. We have a new us. Can i get 3 bundles for 10000 . I think im lumina but no, but ill give you 2 for 10000. Come do you still have many dependent, but yes, i have some back here, especially harvested yesterday. Okay, then ill take some more thoughtful coolant 10000 altogether. Okay, fine. Let me, let me go. Good. Good. So im gonna go to the same time sounds. Its kind of, you have to handle with the sentence. In the house, you always have to haggle. Its just part of shopping. Otherwise youll have to pay and you wont get a good price. It goes to close out the little. How about the hold up in the else now hes just missing one final very special ingredient. His su a little bit low. Now i should have everything for tonight, so you should be in the yeah, im definitely kind of, im quite happy with the price is good. Well, get the mushrooms are quite expensive. It was 82 years for a 100 crimes evening. Bye. Its quite a long time, 600 its just a short ride on allows tank feedback to the ship where he stops preparing the evening meals the law. The kitchen team basically gets on with the Cooking Campaign one. So its relaxed at the wheel. He knows hes roots 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 and the water and fish a dying theyve run into some difficulties today. The water level is quite low. Danger, assigned banks are forming in the river. One has to concentrate again. Well yeah, no, im not scared. I know my sham well, and i knew what it can do. High that he and there on the last trip full on mocked particularly shadow response with stakes, which now floats in the river like boys. The captain asked, so team member to check the depth of the one 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 at the me comb, son 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, official austin, spices began to halt in the cramped county for my c. C. Sometimes it gets up to 40 degrees down. And while it does come with my fully put, so i have to cook for over 28 people who at home and now for the last leroy wouldnt betrayed his jump on the ship with anyone on land on the west side for a place to work is on a ship, people. Yeah. And you see son much great nature, small villages and all the people in the bank see one of the a lot. Yeah. Its very special. I wouldnt want to give it tom. Good, perfect, good, really delicious, about really good laotian food. So i just have to be careful with the teenage for the allow sions i put in 10 or 15 with on, from the tourists, maybe 11. 00, any way of giving you the, once the food is in south johnson given to the guests, which has consumed coordinate to day the evening, my philosophy because i love cooking very much, talk through it. I like today. I most have pretty time 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 our own whiskey from rice, but shes feeling worried about the future of our business. Or the new slave 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 that keep buying up our fields. 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 the side 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 spirit. Its cheap and doesnt require many ingredients. Name and co signed co, just you dickie rice and use powder name and ben. Its mixed well together so that a kind of a match the left in the barrels for a week. Then some chum taste the liquid and sometimes and so little want to 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 that the boat. Right. So im john producers of of 500 liters a month. She then sells the bottles to trade is on the market. A model. Cost is 30000 k, thats about one euro, 60 but the profits onto enough to do everything shed like in the living room. And 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 laos is a full country, and the corona virus crisis has compounded the struggles of allow economy even further. But with the easing of the pond demick in china is new silk road lotions, hope the Economic Situation will improve. Slowly, things are picking up again, at least in the villages, people benefit from the free natural Building Material that surrounds them. Some people like calling me even built that house is completely by themselves. From bamboo a today we have to repair a wall in our house because the old phone broke and it rained in. But it wasnt nice for our daughter. What happens all the time . Hopeful get it done today, but then in my bottom 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 or a big problem. So now let me open it 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, or call me as a pharma, and grows cassava, the devil, 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 about what a visit the bamboo from the forest is free 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. Ill nbc, youre gonna be sending them is good. I can work with whats already brewing around. I hang all funny on finally, but we still have to process the process into stripling slides in right. Because otherwise it will bend under the heat of the sun, a crumbled settle. Have a lot of work to do to help the heck out of the the, who is an important resumes for many people across asia. Its a fast growing natural material that can be used, natalie to build houses and furniture. Many also use it as firewood, even as food calling me and his wife a building the new wall. Once its finished it will be was approved and relatively stone 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 word and again, but you know, teacher, im hoping to save some money to buy a small truck. Thats what i buy. Its no easy use, but it would help us on the visit. I had a truck, i could take microsoft to the city so they are, is a higher prizing the mean and everything will be good. And then 2 months or then quarter tone way kind of little. The neva helps calling me to install the new band. The few nails here and that and the house is fine and the roof out to the foot and a lot in love with that. I couldnt sleep before because of all the holes i need, but tonight ill sleep suddenly again the. The 10 family also has their own house with a garden. They grow chinese ginger, also called finger at the plant, is related to ginger. But the taste isnt quite as spicy. The root is used as a spice and tie. Kerry added china as im additional tongue to use the care gift card. Its good for ikea, arms and legs. Bad headaches. And it isnt higher. The goodman a few of the plans are granting just behind the 10 families house. And how do 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 drive 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, Calling 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 the city. First, all sounds top quality wave ensconced, closing and bangs, native sales or idea to combine the old with the new as being a great success. No, i used to, we have traditional patterns, but then i realized that everyone does that. So i wanted to design patterns that would be interesting for tourist like what now i make modern design that incorporate traditional allow patterns and motif backs that done for kids. A 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 lo pattern that 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, look inside my organs and i know how many boom, nice to a need the va income sounds please typo scott, for the equivalent of about 200 us on affordable to most lounge 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 dozen women sit that, that live. It takes one person about 2 weeks to make fun of the expensive. So sconce. 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 the va income is a member of the allow handicraft association. Its important to have that pool of female workers as a posted under that work is paid valley fund via income expects good work in real time. She always overseas, the production of the scouts of south. What happened you have to do the Quality Control very carefully. Reading is not that easy for me to sell the scar as well. Every centimeter needs to be correct. The income has been recognized internationally for the quantity of work, and shes always got new ideas in the pipeline. 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