Climbers, Thailand will be off the beaten track are invited to learn more about the about the "birds nest Phang collectors who control a large number of islands in Nga Bay and perfect climbing off the southwest coast. Climbers, climbing rocks, for example, without permission will be in big trouble very deep. Please note do not anyway. Birds of the Andaman Sea nests were in China at least 1,500 years and their export to the usedCollectibles of the Malay Peninsula and southern Thailand was also 18th since Century established.
Today the most important market for them in Hong Kong, which consumes 100 tonnes of it, worth THB billion each year. Black nests to sell for an average of 10,000 THB / kg, while downloading the perfect white nest can be up to 50,000 THB / kg. The nest swiftlet Fuciphaga of the place is very popular Chinese tonic as a powerful pick-me-up and is usually takenBanquets of the rich form of bird's nest soup.
The same nests are small transparent glass in the size of a small egg. They are men of slimy son swiftlet saliva, which weaves in a cup that dries made too thin and translucent as China. Bird's nest soup flows of Chinese parents, with chicken broth or coconut milk for their children in the hope that they cooked to improve their complexion, promote economic growth and generally act as aTonic. Recent studies have shown that the nests contain a bit "like noodles a water soluble glycoprotein that can stimulate cell division in the immune tastes.
The Down Low - Bird's Nest Climbing Thailand
Nest collection is smart and dangerous, high ceilings of caves, which are on the Thai coast and its islands abound. The Shins fearless barefoot collectors to rickety bamboo scaffolding bars, ropes and bridges, threadingIt ensures that the bamboo is healthy. He lights his way through the caves in black, saturated with a torch in the bark resin held between the teeth and uses a special instrument called a Triple Rada, to collect the nests. Shall use his bare hands a nest of anger and antipathy to make the gods.
If a nest is not too old soup can be made in quality, but soup can be made in second grade. A nest must be made from fresh saliva, without feathers or dirt. A fresh nest is white, is an old black. ABird's Nest is something other than saliva made: no more no sticks. It is similar to fiberglass, with the bird brings a lot of threads on the other.
A sustainable supply of nests is ensured, and the survival of the species is protected, because the nests are collected only if they are empty. Koh Petra productive nests from which they collected over 100 kg nests three times in a good year. Koh Lao Liang yields about 30 kg of nests three times a year. AfterChicks flew the nest, eating the mother to renew their energy supply. Collectors, of which there are 60 in the Marine Park Koh Petra, has the nest before the mother can eat.
If a collector accidentally touching a nest, it will be a time, would be a sign of the gods, that would be dangerous for him to continue to rise on that day. During the harvest season, from February to May, and collectors to work without food from sunrise to sunsetwhere the caves full of bats and flocks of swallows rest. Sometimes nest-gatherers must swim underwater to an underwater cave or crawl through tiny vent passages to reach the ceiling of a cave to go. The caves are often spectacular cathedrals of stalactites and stalagmites, covered with a thick carpet of guano and sparkling with gold hordes of cockroaches.
Large companies - Bird's Nest Climbing Thailand
Collection of Bird's Nest is a lucrative businessis strictly controlled. Collectors have a government concession for exclusive collection of nests in the Marine Park. The nest of European award, which will be auctioned every 5 years, costs about THB 100 million €. The nests are so precious that they are from the guards during the harvest time protected, stealing to deter thieves. The guards also protect the birds from predators such as snakes, beetles and eagles. Despite the protection offered by carAuthorities, the guards were corrupt and nests robbed. An infidel, for which the impact of the discovery had been very unfavorable, with its emission of sudden wealth, where he recognized the chains in gold and pickup.
Western Mountaineering with Trevor Massiah, Steve Findley, Dan Donovan and Mike Weitzman anchor in some caves, the collector, the rope makes sure Shimmy. Koh Lao Liang collectors said that the publisherUseful rope in their favor in 2006 was the rope that put Steve and Dan South Lao Liang. The string created from Treviso and Mike was in a striking and almost impossible plausible, but not very useful that the birds had left the cave.
Mike described the process of implementation of the ankle:
"Suddenly I saw Treviso in front of a swinging pendulum, if it has fallen to 20 meters. In addition, was the only thing to prevent what then, it would fall 30 feet into the seainadequate metal nut stuck in a crack and then attach the rope with a carabiner. I was more afraid for the lives of my head than I had ever been, or were you then. Maybe I was on the verge of becoming an involuntary landing place for 80 kg of limestone-as-Antigua / Bristolian meat and cartilage. Trevor tries to throw a rope around a large number of rock out of sight, so you can put the rope to the belt. He was blind and desperateRock-image barely clinging to the rock was greasy dirt bat guano.
Trevor assure power cord to a metal bridge (brakes) of the device: When I went the brakes. Make this the arrest of his fall, but only if the mother does not harm metal was torn loose. This was occurring when Treviso fell. I have never failed a metal hook in place in a protected pocket in the rock surface. I knew it was the hook of the popPocket, where they fell. Trev, as usual in Colombia, said: "maybe a bit of swing" to be here. "I thought:" If Trev Currently we are in an embrace in the air, then a bathroom - and I do not like trying to swim the feeling involved in during knitting and speed. "
Fortunately, by avoiding the ground, blind, Mike swim - and hugs.
Not surprisingly, Thai-nest collectors, such as the safety of Western climbers and their technology resulted in their workplace. Before2-5 people died nests collected every five years, and in most years, one of the 60 panels death. The usual cause is that the bamboo is broken and out of the hole where it was locked. Before gathering to pray climbing bird's nest "and brushing her hair. Iceland are prohibited from eating animals such as snakes, iguanas and birds, as belong to those animals on the island. In addition, they are obliged to celibacy (which are not collectors, animals) .
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