Same view in December 2004:
Back to 2007:
The shop, info centre, Acha's house + parking shelter, Agong's house + outhouse & the buseh's not-so-new balcony-less house:
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):
Info centre:
Pre-dinner tour:
Photos by the other HY
Big fat new water tanks - old ones in background look puny:
New 'ah gu':
Sun getting low in the sky:
Info centre + village committee 'hierarchy' charts:
Front/upper spirit gate v.2004:
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:
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):
Photo from December 2009
Swing v.2006 - with new info panels:
Dos & Don'ts on the info panels:
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