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...tribe visits like trips to the zoo, the Akha village of Ban Lorcha, about an hour's drive away from Chiang Rai, is providing an interactive educational experience for visitors by becoming a living museum. "This project has been very valuable for our community," says Ban Lorcha Community Based Tourism Development Project director Songnam Ritwanna. "In the past, tourists just walked through the village, but no one could explain to them the culture, so they didn't learn anything. The villagers didn't get any money, so they saw no value in keeping their traditional ways." Today, entry fees...
...ROAD Aside from tourism, Pagan's main industry is the confection of jaggery, or palm sugar. Hundreds of small palm plantations crowd the Pagan Plain, each tended by a family that taps its livelihood from high up in the fronds. The thin, sweet sap is boiled down in large vats to make a dark, flavorful sugar sold at roadside stands. But for the real treat, look beyond the woven palm baskets filled with the golden lumps for the flask bottles of potent palm toddy?the sap that is collected in the afternoon, after fermenting all day in the sun. Unrefined...
...gripping, Asian readers will likely fixate on the nearly 40 pages tracking the E seekers' journey to Bangkok, Ko Samui and Ko Phangnga. The Thai speed pills known as yaba, full moon raves and the Oriental Hotel are all referenced, but more insightful are Aitkenhead's observations about sex tourism and the psychology of farangs who consort with Thai hookers. Indeed, one of the most humorous exchanges occurs when Decca's husband and another Englishman argue over whether the ladies should be called "bar girls" or "prostitutes." "Men in Chaweng had the idea that the girls were so lovely...
...they get a miserable salary, but regularly." Salaries run about $15 a month, pensions $1 a month. He then ran down the list of Abkhazia's assets - tobacco, citrus fruit, grapes, wine - then raised his eyebrows as if shocked at the shortness of the list. There is also tourism. "In Soviet times we had 2 million tourists a year," he said. "Now we are delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both the élite and the masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti...
...social enterprise side, the second-prize winners developed a program to give loans to people who are being evicted from their homes. And third prize went to a group that proposed to train college students to go to Namibia and jump-start the local tourism industry there...