By Tessa Bunney on 28 May 2013
As the year goes on I have been able to gradually add pieces to the puzzle of the seasonal agricultural cycle. Planting hill rice is completely different to paddy rice and began last month with the burning of the cleared fields on the mountainside. Swidden cultivation or ‘hai’ in Laos consists of cutting the natural vegetation, leaving it to dry and then burning it for temporary cropping of the land, the ash acting as a natural fertiliser.
There’s been…
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By Tessa Bunney on 21 May 2013
So today I will be heading back up to the north of Laos – via Luang Prabang, to Oudomxay and venturing into Phongsaly from the south just for a few days. Due to a complex mosaic of reasons primarily extremely long school holidays Noah and I will be back in the UK for almost two months so this will be my last photographic trip for a while. I feel less excited about this trip than I might have done a while back – I know it is the right thing to do – to go back, to consolidate and to…
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