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Lao Banzhang – A village in decline

Lao Banzhang is a strange place. I don’t really enjoy going there so much – there’s an air of greed and duplicity about the village. For some reason though, I...

Banpen

This morning we returned from a trip, staying for a few days in the mountains, in Banpen village (~4km from Lao Banzhang). This village is home to the LaHu minority...

Handmade paper tea wrappers

Today we took a trip to a local Dai minority village to pick up some handmade paper for wrapping our tea. Being pretty far out of the way, we took...

Rain at last!

Finally, after months of dry weather, it has begun to rain in Xishuangbanna. Last night we woke up to the sound of a thunderstorm and rain, and again tonight there’s...

dry

It’s dry here, really dry. We first enountered it upon arriving in Kunming – the streets were more dusty than normal, our noses filled with black dusty dirt & our...

Back in Taiwan

After spending the last couple of months engaged in negotiations for our Tea House it feels like we’ve finally made some progress. The lease is signed and waiting with our...