Village kids, Kratie | along the Mekong | flovision - photography by Florian Christian | flovision

Village kids, Kratie

May-2013

I visited the area to see one of the last remaining populations of the critically endangered Irrawady dolphins (around 90 in the Mekong as per the WWF) inhabitaing an area with deep pools in the river nearby here. Resting in the shadow along the river the kids came to check the lone foreigner, they probably heard me trying to play on a bamboo flute I had bought from a rattan peddler earlier and decided to join the fun. When I left I gave the flute to the kids (who played much better than me :) and even 10 years later I can still hear the sound some times on a really hot summer day near a river.

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