Day 5 – Dec
8 2010
This morning
we woke up at 5.30 for a crane shoot again. Like in an operation, Jason and I
slowly and secretly went a long way around to sneak close to the flock of
cranes in the centre of the wetland. Afterwards, we camped inside a bush at a
higher ground for around 2.5 hours, observing and photographing the cranes
having their breakfast below. On the way back we came across a group of people
collecting straw in the forest nearby. I then took some photos to document
their job.
On our way
from Phobjikha to Punakha, we went past lots of things and happenings. First
were a group of mountain bulls and some shield bugs. Second was a roadblock
with huge landslide. Third was a busy town that was going to be abandoned. We
stopped for long at this town to catch some stories about it for the last time
before it disappeared. Because of its location near to a monastery, the public
businesses caused much disturbance to the monks at the monastery. I could see
this easily from the presence of the monks hanging around in the town. Jason gave
me a 10-minute assignment to come up with a cover photo, some story photos and
a closing photo. It was really thrilling to work in such time constraints.
Besides, I also got an interesting side story about the business of
long-distance taxi drivers there. Next to the petrol station was the parking
site where this business was going on. The drivers were shouting out the names
of the destinations and passengers would come to them. There were many cities
and towns being called out, and everything went fast. Customers came, got into
the vehicles and left, then new vehicles moved into the site.
We reached Punakha, the ex-capital of Bhutan, at
around 7 pm. After 2 days, we came back to electricity.
