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A Lao Mobbing  
   

A Lao Mobbing

Here, take my camera, I'm going in.. Look at me, I'm so tall! Surrounding me are a number of Akha and Thai Dam women. The Akha women are selling bracelets, belts and the like, and you can see part of one of the beautiful headresses under the scarf. The Thai Dam women (mostly young girls) were selling beautiful colourful woven scarves, which I loved, but found them too short to use, so despite having looked at them with grand intentions of buying, I ended up disappointing them and not buying any.
Markets markets everywhere

January 15th 2007
It's a girl's perogative to shop, and I've been trying very very hard to live up to this stereotype, even if I have been thwarted along the way at times. Two days ago I made like a snail again and hoisted my backpack back on to my wearying shoulders and gallumphed (less like a snail, more like a donkey with gumboots) off to the bus station, (or dusty pile of rocks and rubbish with an assortme ... read more
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