Play with death angel on the rivers of Vietnam and Laos to get money
News24xx.com - The province of Thanh Hoa, in Vietnamese has one of the largest bamboo forests in Southeast Asia, with over 80,000 hectares of natural bamboo forest and 71,000 hectares of planted bamboo. In just three years, the plant can grow up to eight metres tall.
With the global market for bamboo expanding, the bamboo industry contributes to Thanh Hoa's growing economy and sustains the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale farmers.
"Here are two staples of Vietnamese life: rice and bamboo. To cutting the bamboo is very tiring work, but it's the only we can make a living. We go to the forest, cut the bamboo and carry it down to the river." says a bamboo labourer.
After cutting the bamboo, they carry the bamboo with heavy until 30-40kg for more than a kilometre to down muddy slopes to the banks of the Luong River.
The labourers earn just over a dollar a day cutting and transporting the bamboo. But the bravest among them can make 10 times much to transporting the goods on the river.
"A raft can be made from 500 to 600 bamboo poles. We have to go by river, there's no other way," says one harvester.
It is imperative that the bamboo rods are securely fastened and that the raft is flexible and narrow to offer minimum resistance to the current. Once completed, the raft will be nearly 50 meters long and hard to navigate on the river. If the current is strong, it will be difficult to control and they risk losing an entire raft.
"It's a dangerous journey. We're scared from the time we leave until the end of the journey," says one of them as they prepare for the 30-kilometre, five-hour-long strenuous journey.
The legendary Mekong River, or "mother of waters", is Vietnam's main waterway. It nourishes the six countries through which it flows, including the landlocked People's Republic of Laos, which borders Vietnam.
The fishermen cross the raging currents on precarious high wires to inspect traps and fishing nets, risking death to make a living. Each year, two or three fishermen are died in the Mekong River.
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