Picture of the Week – 23.2.15 – The Corridor of Opportunity
By Tessa Bunney on 23 February 2015There’s nothing like a bit of trekking and road tripping through rural Laos… Recently back from a trip through Phongsaly, Oudomxay and Sayaboury provinces, I have many photos and stories to share over the coming weeks.
A Prai (Lao Mai) ethnic minority woman gathers broom grass (Kok Kham) along the roadside in Sayaboury province which will later be made into brooms to be sold at her roadside stall. Watching life go by whilst driving through the three provinces, this was the main seasonal occupation of the rural communities of all ethnicities in rural areas. After drying in the fields and along the roadsides and removing the seeds, none of which is as easy as it sounds, much of this grass is bundled up and exported to China.