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201008 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Students' Trip in Xishuangbanna |
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In August, around 30 students and their teachers from Dartmouth College of United States visited Xishuangbanna, they were interested in local ethnic culture, and eager to know about their lives, according to their request we suggested an itinerary including visits to different ethnic groups, seeing Theravada Buddhism temple, learning how to pick tea buds and process it from mountain people, watching a small folk show given by Aini villagers, having lunches with ethnic families in their traditional houses, studying on all kinds of interesting plants in tropical botanical garden, paying visits to Dai craftsmen who were still persisting on traditional way to distill rice whisky, make bamboo fireworks and paper flying lantern for need of their daily life.... It's just full! |
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Aug. 24, 2010 - Aug. 28, 2010 |
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| Visit to village of Bulang people by farmer's tractors | Mountain taxi ride, new experience | |
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| Helping Bulang villagers collect rice being sun-dried | Upstairs to visit a Theravada Buddhism temple | |
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| Dai people's traditional Buddhism temple | Octagonal Pavilion, used to be meeting hall of monks | |
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| Learning from mountain people how to pick tea | Photo with mountainous Aini woman | |
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| Learning how to process tea in wok by hand | Home lunch in Aini's traditional small wooden house | |
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| Hospitable Aini women singing songs to visitors | Aini women giving us a colorful folk show | |
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| Students learning how to do bamboo dance | Group dance with villagers, rainy, but in high spirit | |
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| Taking ferry on the Mekong to experience local life | Traditional Dai house in the village, our lunch place | |
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| Village women busy preparing food in traditional way | Roast tilapia with lemon grass, inviting! | |
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| A traditional Dai family lunch was set | Enjoying Dai family lunch, enjoying their hospitality | |
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| Studying on interesting plant in botanical garden | Students in tropical botanical garden | |
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| Visit to a Christian Dai village, a religious exception | Learning how to make traditional bamboo fireworks | |
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| Learning how to make traditional paper flying lantern | Farewell dinner with traditional Dai grilled food | |
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| Seeing villagers let off traditional bamboo fireworks | Seeing villagers let off paper flying lantern | |
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| In a Dai people's traditional whisky workshop | A basketball match with young men villagers |
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RELATED TOUR.....to be customized. |