Eco Tour in the south of Laos

Eco Tour in the south of Laos

It was first experience for me to be guide man of "Eco Tour" from Japan in south part of Laos. We visited to Banana Fiber village (Saravane), Pakse, Rattan Products village(Saravane), Temple (Savannakhet), textile village (Savannakhet) Massage place (Savannakhet) and beautiful Mekong river (Savannakhet).

Because we, producers and ODOP members, would like them to know the process and background of products before buying the products to know the "real" value, tour being able to visit to project sites was a best opportunity. (Without knowing and understanding realty, we can't know the real value of any products.)

I, myself, has a lot of new awareness in this tour. This time, I'm going to show a lot of pictures.

1st Pic : Natural dying. 2nd Pic : place to practice weaving Banana fiber. 3rd pic: experience.

Paksee pictures.　lunch in front of a beautiful water fall.

1st pic : Rattan tracking. 2nd pic : villagers. 3rd pic : opening ceremony

1st pic :Home stay program. 2nd pic : dinner with villagers. 3rd pic : Experience

1st pic : Monk gave bracelet with wish. 2nd pic : traditional Massage.
3rd pic : Mekong river sunset

They became to love place in Laos where they visited.
I loved to introduce my lovely country.
Come to join in our tour to see amazing Laos

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ

Power of tradition

Making Pyramid !!!!!

I had a muscle ache yesterday, coz I worked out for making small Pyramid whole day.
As I wrote in this blog before, our ODOP project final products, which is pottery is still on the process of making kiln by bricks. And this time we invited two OTOP Pottery Producers from Thailand to help construction of Bricks pyramid to burn bricks.

Producers made more than 3000 heavy bricks, and this time we had to carry all of them from a place to another. They are really heavy and it was really heavy work.

But you can see below pics. That is beautiful, isn't it?? This products is the one producers are making by HANDS. They don't use any electricity, every single process is by hands!!

Our ODOP project was somehow called "helpful project for laos villages". But what we are doing is supporting what they already had or used to have to make better. Basically most of the products were took over from ancient period. This is we can call "Power of tradition".

Respect what they have done
is first step for supporting them.
Without it, we can't do anything good for them.

雄揮 / Yuki / ยูกิ

Thanks everyone in Japan

my bog and me

Yuki back to Japan On Jan

On the mid of Jan, I had a chance to go back to Japan to take training about PCM(Project Cycle Management), which is used in the field of international development organization to make their activities plan. Actually the contents is not really difficult for me, coz most of the topic is something we already used for AIESEC planning. But I just want to have certificate for my future.

Anyway my biggest purpose to visit to Japan is to spend time with my family and my best friends there. Since I went to Thailand for Member Committee Vice president on 2009 May, I hadn't been back to Japan (for about 20months).

And I met with my friends, but I didn't feel empty time of 20 months with them. We talked as if we met a month ago, a week ago, even a day before..
Nobody changed including me, my relationship with them didn't change at all.

How about with my family, it changed, I felt change, it's more warm I felt. But it's not because they treat me better, it's because I get to be able to understand of family love better.
I felt appreciation for what they have done in my life.

Thanks everyone