Encounters of the feathered kind
From Ao Tanote Bay on the east of Kho Tao we hiked up the short hill to Mamas. ‘Mama’ is a middle-aged Thai lady who wears a headscarf and long skirt like a gypsy, a cigarette in her mouth. ”You like birds?” she asked us. Hot after our walk, Mama gave us perfumed face cloths and we sat looking over the coconut trees (5 million of them apparently). I wasn’t trying to count.
Mama appeared, her colourful skirt swaying around her skinny hips. She showed us her bird, bought in Bangkok, named Disco for his skills on the dancefloor. “Choop choop,” she said. “Kiss, kiss.”
The bird happily hopped onto W’s hand and climbed up to his shoulder and proceeded to nibble his hair and ear. He didn’t want to come down.
Mama busily prunes bonsai trees with shears, folding back the twigs, expertly, using the skills she acquired from working at a nursery in Switzerland. She gives me a flower to put in my hair.
She ducks into her kitchen, which is chaotic: Pictures of relatives on walls, piles of newspapers, cutlery scattered everywhere.
W pointed out the birds nests in caves that fetch top dollar in Asian countries. It’s a delicacy apparently. Here’s a photo of a birds nest climber… Looks like quite a dangerous job, but it beats being at the office. Photo credit: http://www.andamanadventures.com/
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