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Lao farmer tilling a rice paddy with a buffalo. Don Det Island, Southern Laos.
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Boy at Paksong market, Bolavens Plateau, Laos.
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Boy in Paksong market, Bolavens Plateau, Laos.
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Woman transplanting rice seedlings, Don Dhet Island, Southern Laos.
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Tribal people living a traditional livelihood beside the Nam Hin Bun river have to take a canoe through a 4km cave to reach the outside world. Khammouane Province, Southern Laos.
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Tribal people living a traditional livelihood beside the Nam Hin Bun river have to take a canoe through a 4km cave to reach the outside world. Khammouane Province, Southern Laos.
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Rice seedlings await planting in the rice paddies of Nagang village, Saylabouli province, Laos. Rice cultiviation has increasingly replaced rainforest in the region over recent years.
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Rice planting, Nagang village, Saylabouli province, Laos.
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Tribal village in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area rainforest, Northern Laos.
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Khamu tribal villagers in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area rainforest, Northern Laos.
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A Lao farmer shelters from the monsoon rains beneath a banana leaf. Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Saylabouli province, Laos.
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Rambutan from Thailand being unloaded from the Mekong river, Vientienne, Laos.
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A girl from the Khamu tribe in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area forest, Laos.
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A girl from the Khamu tribe plays with a young buffalo. Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Laos.
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Fisherman from the Khamu tribe catches fish in the Nam Ha river, Luang Nam Tha, Laos.
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Boy from the Khamu tribe. Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area. Laos.
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Khamu tribal children at their village in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area. Laos.
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Khamu tribe. Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area. Laos.
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Khamu child, Nam Ha, Laos.
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Girl and child from the Khamu tribe in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area.
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Girl and child from the Khamu tribe in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area.
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US bombs from the Vietnam war, collected and defused by Lao UXO in Sepon district, Southeast Laos. This area was heavily bombed because the Ho Chi Minh trail led through it.
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Boy selling iguanas by the roadside, Sepon, Laos.
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Girl at Paksong market, Bolavens Plateau, Laos.
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Tribal people living beside the Nam Hin Bun river, Khammouan Province, Southern Laos.
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Farmers living beside the Nam Hin Boun river sing and play traditional instruments.
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Frogs and snails, Pakse market, Laos.
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Tribal people in a village by the Nam Hin Boun river, Khammouan Province, Laos.
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Woman in Pakse, Laos.
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Mekong river at twilight, Don Dhet, Laos.
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Mekong river from Don Dhet island, Laos.
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Children at the third lunar month full moon festival when novice monks are received into the sangha for three months. Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan Province, Southern Laos.
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Farmer tending his garden, Paksong, Bolaven Plateau, Southern Laos.
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Coffee beans on a plantation on the Bolaven Plateau, Southern Laos.
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Lao farmers drinking homemade 'Lao Lao' rice wine at a village on the Nam Hin Bun river, Khammuan province, Laos.
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Fishermen return from the Nam Hin Bun river, Khammuan province, Laos.
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Vegetables in Tha Khaek market, Laos.
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A temple caretaker collects offerings made at the third lunar month full moon festival. Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan Province, Southern Laos.
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Women kneeling to give offerings at a buddhist third lunar month full moon festival. Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan Province, Southern Laos.
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People make offerings to the monks during a full moon festival at Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan Province, Southern Laos.
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A boatman negotiates rapids on the Nam Hin Bun river, Khammuan province, Laos.
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Swidden agriculture meets the rainforest. Khammouan province, Laos.
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Women hulling corn, Luang Prabang, Laos
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Native corn variety, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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Novice monks at a buddhist temple, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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Temple gate, Luang Prabang, Laos.
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Shell petrol station, Udomaxai, Northern Laos.
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An old man from the Lantern tribe fixes his wooden plough, Luang Nam Tha Province, Laos.
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A woman confronts men felling fruit trees in her village. Luang Nam Tha district, Northern Laos.
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A man fells a Pomelo tree in a village in Luang Nam Tha district, Northern Laos.
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A giant catfish weighing 18kg, sits on the scales beside the Nam Tha river before being sold to a taxi driver, Luang Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Northern Laos.
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Sunset over Luang Nam Tha, Northern Laos.
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Tribal village in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Northern Laos.
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Rainbow over a tribal village in Nam Ha, Laos.
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Farmer ploughing his rice paddy, Nagang village, Saylabouli province, Northwest Laos.
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Buddhist monk and novice, Nagang village, Northwest Laos.
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A buddhist monk returns home to his home village of Nagang, on the edge of the Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Laos.
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Swidden 'slash and burn' rice field. Near Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Northwest Laos.
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Children in a farm hut on the edge of the Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Saylabouli province.
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Planting rice seedlings on a farm on the edge of the Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Saylabouri Province, Northwest Laos.
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A buddhist monk looks on to the forest of his home village that has shrunk since his youth due to logging and 'slash and burn' encroachment. Nam Phoun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Saylabouli Province, Laos.
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A tribal girl carries firewood in a village in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Luang Nam Tha province, Laos.
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Sunset over the Mekong river, Tha Khaek, Laos.
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A boy hangs from a bamboo and rattan suspension bridge across the Nam Ha river, Luang Nam Tha Province, Laos.
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A tribal girl in a village in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Luang Nam Tha Province, Laos.
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Women make offerings at the third lunar month full moon festival, Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan Province, Southern Laos.
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Buddhist monk walking through rice paddies, Northwest Laos.
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Buffalo wallowing in a mud pool. Laos.
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Different varieties of aubergine (eggplant) at a market in Saylabouli, Laos.
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Banana buds in Saylabouli market, Laos.
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Children play on a road roller, Saylabouli Province, Laos.
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Lizard meat and tomatoes on banana leaves, Saylabouli market, Laos.
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Villagers share a glass of potent Lao rice whisky, Saylabouli province, Laos.
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Children at a temple in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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A fisherman checks his nets on the banks of the Mekong river, Laos.
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Girls wait to give offerings to the monks during a buddhist full moon festival, Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan province, Laos.
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Women wait to give offerings to the monks during a buddhist full moon festival, Pha That Muang Ka stupa, Khammuan province, Laos.
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Corn at Paksong market, Bolaven Plateau, Southern Laos.
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Paksong market flooded by monsoon rains, Bolaven Plateau.
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Woman at Paksong market, Bolaven Plateau, Laos.
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Girl in Paksong market, Bolaven Plateau, Laos.
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Tribal woman from the Lantern tribe in the Nam Ha National Biodiversity Conservation Area, Luang Nam Tha, Laos.
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Offcuts of tropical hardwood at a Vietnamese sawmill in Sepon, Southeast Laos.
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Offcuts of tropical hardwood at a Vietnamese sawmill in Sepon, Southeast Laos.
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Workers change the band saw blade at a sawmill in Sepon, Southeast Laos.
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A convoy of trucks of sawn tropical timber at a Vietnamese Sawmill in Sepon, Laos.
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Vietnamese sawmill, Sepon, Laos
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A girl stands beside a log pile on the edge of the Mekong river near the capital Vientienne in Laos. Logs are transported downriver before export.
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Logging truck transports logs from an upcountry barge to a sawmill in Vientienne.
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Logs from upcountry being unloaded from barges on the Mekong river, Vientienne Province, Laos.
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A boy sits on a log pile at a sawmill in Sepon, Laos.
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Sawmill, Tha Khaek, Laos.
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Sawmill, Tha Khaek, Laos.
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Lao army pontoon boats waiting to supply the Oxiana goldmine, Sepon, Laos.
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Lao army pontoon barges waiting to supply the Oxiana goldmine, stranded by the monsoon rains.
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Rice paddies in Vilabouly district, an area being developed for mining, Southern Laos.
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Road improvement for the Sepon mine, Laos
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A truck contracted to the Sepon mine stuck in the mud on route to the mine HQ, Laos.
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Sepon mine base camp, Laos.
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A village on the road to the Sepon mine basecamp.
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Mine construction machinary held up by monsoon rains.
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Mine milling bit on a truck held up by the monsoon rains.
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A local woman passes a mine mill head on a truck bound for the Oxiana goldmine site, NaBo, Sepon district, Laos.
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Road through Nabo village, to the Sepon mine.
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Deminers contracted to the Sepon mine clear a truck parking area of unexploded bombs. The region was heavily bombed during the Vietnam war.
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An Australian mine worker negotiates the purchase of road chippings from a Vietnamese company to upgrade the road.