Khoueng Xaignabouli Local Customs

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elephants in this world

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Sayabouly province in general is famous for herds of wild (and domesticated) elephants and in Lao imaginery that's the place in the country with most of them. As their numbers are rapidly declining anywhere we hope that trend will stop. We wouldn't want to imagine former Lan Xang (Million of elephants) kingdom without them, would we? Some NGO groups in the country are working hard to inform public on elephant and other threathened wildlife species issues and ecology; activities like Elephant festivals and few days long elephant trekking through wilderness and villages of Sayabouly are impressive but even more important is continual education of local population and it concerns every patch of society as they still largely depend on nature.Here most of domesticated elephants are used for working in forest, in timber industry. With their strong bodies they can pull the trees through...

fermented tea leaves

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Local people here would often use fermented tea leaves as stimulant instead of coffee specially in the remotest areas of the district. They take older and larger tea leaves from the tea trees which grow at large in the native forests. After leaves are picked they are placed for several weeks or months in the bamboo stem and placed under the earth to start the process of fermetation. In that time those become ready to use. You'd enhance its taste and effect by adding some salt and chillies and then wrap it altogether with leaf and place it by the jaws from where you slowly suck out the juice . It has very bitter taste. Some people would suck large amounts of tea leaves every day. Interestingly, many village people who use tea leaves this way would never make or drink tea nor coffee. Most people make fermented leaves for their own consumption but you can also buy them at some shops by the...

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