Travel

Walking along the streets of Kisaran, Sumatra.

The final video clips from my trip to see some rice paddies outside Kisaran in Sumatra. Evy and I return

I go with Evy when she visits a friend’s palm oil farm. I watch as the men cut down the

At lunchtime, I hopped on the back of Evy’s motorcycle for a trip to a local market in a small

I watch and learn as Evy and her worker prepare a diluted mixture of water and pesticide and then spray

I check out how the rice paddies are divided into sections with low mud dividers. With these, the farmers can

Evy and her worker set up a water pump to irrigate her rice fields. There had been little rain, and

I see rice seedlings being replanted, and I confess how difficult I find any kind of farmwork or gardening.

We arrive at Evy’s hectare of rice and go to the picturesque storage shed to get her water pump equipment.