Since they are several hours' walk away from the nearest road, they have to manage without machinery or means of transport. There are no straight paths in the villages, only winding trails that rise and fall between thatched huts on wooden poles.
To reach some of the
villages, we had to walk for several hours on narrow paths through the jungle
uphill, and then a few kilometres further along the edges of the rice terraces.
Janin (continued)
