Schooling in the Chin villages

Schooling in the Chin villages

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. Thomas Paine I’ve visited quite a few schools in Asia and they consistently take my breath away. I am always astounded at conditions in rural Asia and that anyone learns to read and write at all. But they do....
Chin ladies with tattoos – Lines before their time

Chin ladies with tattoos – Lines before their time

My body is my journal and my tattoos are my story. Johnny Depp The trip on the Lemro River was interesting  but it did feel good to get out and stretch my legs. The path to the village where the ladies with the tattoos lived was flooded with bright mid-day light and...
Life on the Lemro River

Life on the Lemro River

Rivers are roads that move and which carry us whither we wish to go. Blaise Pascal There is nothing quite like being on a boat especially a small boat chugging up some backwater in Asia.  So off I went with three other adventurers (fellow travellers I met in Mrauk U)...