Saturday, August 14, 2010

040107 klap bpai Ban Apa

View of older half from the newer half - January 2007:

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Same view in December 2004:

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Back to 2007:

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The shop, info centre, Acha's house + parking shelter, Agong's house + outhouse & the buseh's not-so-new balcony-less house:

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By the cat's next trip back here at the end of 2009, many more would have made the switch to concrete houses with metal roofing - in 2005 Atee had already mentioned the problem of acquiring wood + imperata grass for building/repairing traditional Akha houses, which have to be rethatched every ~2 years & rebuilt every ~5 years.

A peek at changes to come - even the dzoema has made the switch - double storey wood with green metal roof (only the roof visible at left):

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Info centre:

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Pre-dinner tour:

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Photos by the other HY

Big fat new water tanks - old ones in background look puny:

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New 'ah gu':

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Sun getting low in the sky:

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Info centre + village committee 'hierarchy' charts:

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Front/upper spirit gate v.2004:

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Photo from December 2004

2 more gates (one per year) added at the back to give front/upper spirit gate v.2006 that we saw today:

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Another peek into the future - front/upper spirit gate v.2009 (at least 3 of the older gates still standing in 2006 have since collapsed):

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Photo from December 2009

Swing v.2006 - with new info panels:

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Dos & Don'ts on the info panels:

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