May
24
2010
Lenscape #7
Sunrise at the Moken Village at Mu Koh Surin, Thailand in 2004
I took this picture a bit after 5am at the Moken Village at Mu Koh Surin in Thailand. I was there as part of a recce group for a Singapore International Foundation expedition to help and learn more about the sea gypsies living there. The Mokens are a group of people who live off the sea and are, traditionally, nomadic folk. But those in Phuket have been settled permanently within the Surin Island National Park.
They are a very giving lot of people and I was fortunate to be able to communicate a little with them, as the older folk speak Malay.
Read more about the Mokens on this Wikipedia article.
~ Esther
Esther
