201012 Fransis & Jennifer's Visit to Unbeaten Ethnic Villages in the West of Xishuangbanna

Fransis and Jennifer, a French couple, were two shutterbugs who liked taking photos for ethnic people in  remote and unbeaten areas, but they didn't like hiking, preferred traveling in car to visit ethnic villages one by one, in order to meet their requests, we specially customized an itinerary to the west of Xishuangbanna for them, across regions where we usually did much hiking and the border region where it's mostly resided by traditional ethnic minorities,  roads to those places were normally under poor conditions, very often they had to move along narrow and bumpy tractor path, for this situation we arranged a 4X4 SUV for them, they didn't like hiking, then let car do it for them.....

Dec. 10, 2010 - Dec. 13, 2010
　
Visit to an old Buddhism temple of Dai village 　 Jennifer's interested in name list of donators
　 　 　
　
Passing by another temple, there was an occasion 　 It's a religious period for monks to purify themselves
　 　 　
　
Monks should stay in hut like this for some days 　 Fransis had a picture taken with a purifying monk
　 　 　
　
Villagers were preparing water for monks' shower 　 Monks' shower hut, water would be supplied by villagers
　 　 　
　
Aged and respected monks had priority to take shower 　 Bamboo pipes for conducting water into shower hut
　 　 　
　
Fransis was doing water donation, too, for good luck 　 Busy and crowded occasion, Fransis was busy, too
　 　 　
　
Sharing pictures with village girls 　 Walking into a small Aini village, place for stay
　 　 　
　
Host family was busy, Fransis couldn't rest either 　 Square family dinner, eating while chatting with villagers
　 　 　
　
Stopped on the way to shoot villager with buffalos 　 Bulang ethnic village, people were friendly and obedient
　 　 　
　
Bulang villagers nicely cooperated for Jennifer 　 Stopped on the way for a photo of nice view
　 　 　
　
Fransis was interfering with village women's lunch 　 We used villagers' kitchen for preparing lunch
　 　 　
　
Chatting with Bulang women working in cane fields 　 A beautiful and graceful Dai girl, very nice to be a model
　 　 　
　
She's so patient and obedient to pose for Fransis's photos 　 Taking photos for Dai lady who's making paper
　 　 　
　
In a village of Ake, taking photo for woman and kid 　 Friendly couple, nicely put on traditional costumes for us
　 　 　
　
Lahu girls we met on our way, they were a bit shy 　 We passed by quite many traditional villagers like this

RELATED TOUR.....to be customized.