Akha village near Tha Ton, northern Thailand. 8 March 1986.

With an American and German couple, Evi and I took a songthaew 16kms [from Tha Ton] to a Karen village. Left our packs behind to be put on the boat that we would meet at 1.30 in a village by the Maekok river.

Walked 1.5km to a Lisu village. The people dressed very colourfully. However, we weren’t the first visitors as “Hello, one baht” testified. Took a few nice shots anyway. A few kilometres back along the road was an Akha village. Went up their main street and we were surrounded by women all selling bracelets, necklaces with turquoise beetles and hand-woven colourful pipes with ganja.