Surveys

Another day of surveys. This is the team practicing survey techniques. Usually four people wouldn’t survey one person, but this lady didn’t seem to mind, and here was animatedly telling us about the time when somebody from the village was nearly attacked by a bear in the forest nearby.

This whole area relies on the corn crop, which at this time of the year is cut and hung to dry before being laid out in the sun to dry some more. The second stage happens wherever there is a flat, dry, concrete area. Which can include in your front yard under some dogs (see yesterday’s entry), or halfway across a rural road, meaning that anybody travelling around the area has to spend most of their day swerving to avoid the harvest.

Here we sampled some of these bright red radishes, which look like apples but which are definitely not as delicious (especially if you bite into one thinking it is going to be sweet), and some wild kiwi fruit collected from the forest.