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John Vink - LAOS. Village of Ban Saming.
Kilo 42. 30/01/97. Boarding the bus directed to Paxe.
LAOS. Ban Saming. 28/01/97. Daily bath. The environment, made of secundary forest with a relatively important variety in plants and swamps is well adapted to th
Laos. Ban Saming. 23/01/97.
28/01/97. During the night the elephants are kept in the forest, chained to a tree.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Boun Kong Khao festival. Two young girls have brought the rice which will be distributed during religious festivals.
23/01/97. Elephant tracks in a rice field.
Departure of Neam Khoun (Little Tusk) with goods for the village of Nuang Muang,inaccessible by car
23/01/97. The elephant from SE Asia is the smallest of them all. In principle it is forbidden to catch wild elephants in Laos.
Ban Saming. 30/01/97. Loading of rice to be carried to another village. Saming produces enough rice to be able to sell its excess production.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. The elephant is very convenient to load goods from the stilted houses of the village.
A male elephant in heat being difficult to handle, they do not reproduce in captivity.
29/01/97. Small horses are used to transport lighter loads.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Installation of the yeng sah (cradles) carrying the 120 to 150 kg of goods.
Loading of Neam Khoun (Little Tusk) with goods for the village of Nuang Muang,inaccessible by car.
Elephant pushing a tree log to be used in local construction.Weighs aprox 1 metric ton.
Ban Saming. 22/01/97. Boun Kong Khao festival. Monks shaving their hair and eyebrows.
Ban Saming. 29/01/97. Tree log to be used in local construction. The log, measuring 1 meter in diameter and some 4 meters in length, weighs about 1 metric ton.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Ban Saming exists since 200 years and the knowledge on elephants is being transferred from one generation to another.
Ban Saming. 30/01/97. The village school. There are 195 schoolchildren in the village. The teacher owns an elephant.
Laos. Ban Saming. 23/01/97. 6:30 am near the pagoda, during the Boun Kong Khao festival. The television, powered by a generator, has been showing Thai tapes all
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Ban Saming exists since 200 years and the knowledge on elephants is being transferred from one generation to another.
Repairing a "yeng sah" (support) to be attached to the back of an elephant to carry 150 kg of goods.
LAOS. Ban Saming. 28/01/97. Cutting firewood. Logging for commercial purposes is forbidden in the protected area of Dong Hua Sao. The deforestation rate in Laos
The elephant responds by pressure on the ears,to the harpoon,pressure of the feet and to the voice.
Ban Saming. 30/01/97. Pushing a log to be used as a dam between rice fields.
Ban Saming. 28/01/97. During the night the elephants are kept in the forest, chained to a tree.
Ban Saming. 22/1/97. The elephants spend the night attached to a tree in the forest.
Ban Saming. 22/01/97. Boun Kong Khao festival. Monk calling the inhabitants to bring in their contribution in rice which will be distributed during the religiou
Laos. Ban Saming. 23/01/97. 6:30 am near the pagoda, during the Boun Kong Khao festival. The television, powered by a generator, has been showing Thai tapes all
Ban Saming. 23/1/97. The elephants have a hook stuck in the ear to be directed by their master.
Ban Saming. 22/01/97. Boun Kong Khao festival. Monks shaving their hair and eyebrows.
Ban Saming. 29/01/97. Learning to smoke.
Ban Saming. 30/01/97. Pushing a log to be used as a dam between rice fields.
Ban Saming. 22/1/97. Activity at the well in the evening.
Morning bath at a well of the village.Elephants spend the night attached in the forest.
Ban Saming. 30/01/97. Children watching an injured small buffalo. The buffalo, proof of the wealth of a family, are in fact only used for ploughing the rice fie
21/01/97. A wild elephant can live up to 120 years. The stress of obeying orders and the hard work reduce its life expectancy to 80 years.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Loading rice straw being used to make thatched roofs.
The tusks are cut at 12 years. They measure 30 cm and weigh 4 to 5 kg each. Sold 325US/kg in Thailand
The daily bath of Noy.An elephant eats 40kg of vegetation a day from the forest.
21/01/97. The schoolmaster, Mr Bhoun Suay takes Noy (Darling) back topp the place in the forest where the elephant will spend the night.
Ban Saming. 23/01/97. The elephant from SE Asia is the smallest of them all. In principle it is forbidden to catch wild elephants in Laos. Being difficult to ha
LAOS. Ban Saming. 23/01/97. Ban Saming exists since 200 years and the knowledge on elephants is being transferred from one generation to another.
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