Filed: November 22, 2025 Dispatch 6
THE RICE HARVEST: PART ONE
It’s rice harvest season again.
Tag along on another beautifully quiet morning in the village…the kind where the air still feels cool, and the hum of daily life starts slow. As the kids head off to school, the farmers are already out in the fields, gathering the year’s crop. When the bins fill, the rice is spread out on tarps to dry – folded, turned, and spread again under the sun. Later, it’ll be bagged, stored, and milled as needed, providing for each home in the village all year long.
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Oscar Slamp’s raw dispatches from deep inside the provinces of Northeast Thailand.
This isn’t the Thailand you’ve seen on YouTube. You won’t find the standard-issue tourist-trap temples and night markets here.
We slip through rusted gates into the “Forest Temples” most don’t even know exist and visit night markets so far off grid even the GPS throws its hands up. Locals Only kinds of places.
This is a layer of Thailand most will never rub up against. And, it rubs back, in the most beautiful of ways.
Faces of the village, Buddhist rituals, temples, funerals, cremations, Monk ordinations, sak yant ceremonies, Issan food, farming, festivals and border runs. Raw doc-style storytelling: no influencer gloss, no travelogue polish. Just fragments.
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