[Leica] IMG: "My" Hmong Guide

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

That is a really excellent photo, especially the beer part.  I have 
something similar when I visit the New Mexico pueblos to photograph.  
Lots of bracelets, pottery etc. in my wife's collection (nice stuff too, 
pretty sure crafted there and not in China), lots of donations to the 
pueblo churches.  A small price that will benefit someone.

Ken


On 9/25/2014 4:44 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> The Hmong women make their living by making handicrafts to sell to
> tourists.  Typically, when you enter a village, one woman will attach
> herself to you and the rest go away.  That one woman will stay with you the
> whole time, helping any way she can.  My guide held my arm or hand and
> helped me up and down very steep slopes.  I probably would have fallen
> several times without her.  She never tried to sell me anything, but, by
> the time we left a couple of days later, I had bought everything she had!!
>
> http://www.pbase.com/image/157568230
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> Tina
>