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These are some photographs from the Isaarn Region of Thailand. It can help you understand the difference of lifestyle from back home and working in the bars. Many girls go back in the harvesting season to help the family bring in the crop. While most people notice how that the Thai girl's skin is like smooth velvet, if you check their hands, you will often find them hardened from cutting the rice by hand with a rice scythe.

These photos were taken in 2002, but it is still the same up there as it has been for decades.

It is a very hard life up country, so think why so many want a better life by escaping to the cities, as we did a hundred years ago back home.
 View from Hotel window in Surin  Rice fields and water buffalo
  More rice fields and trees.
 Typical wide country road. 4 lanes wide and no traffic!  Bus from Kap Choern to Surin
  Typical family scene
 One room family home, on stilts to keep it cool, with storage below.  Using the rice tractor to move some wood.
  Driving down the track to the house - Cars get bogged down, but pick-ups just keep driving.
 Baht Bus transport up country. No standing space left on the tailgate, so they are also sitting on the roof.  Coming up to the Cambodian Border checkpoint
  small rural village
 Rice fields and water buffalo  "Red Crush" bus from Surin
  Rice fields and water buffalo
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  Sentry box for police shaped like Police hat
  Coming out of the Mountains from Isaarn
 Small town on the main road. Look how quiet it is.  Buddhist Wat
  In front of the World Trade Centre, Bangkok, with Skytrain in the background

  

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