The preferred method of waste disposal for the locals was burning. There was an area designated for incineration but they liked to start fires all over the place, variety bieng the spice of life and all that. So one day a couple of us came across the forest ablaze next to camp. Someone had started a fire next to a fallen tree on the edge of the jungle and it was spreading wildly. We mustered the troops and this is the moment when we thought be had extingiushed the last flames. Hurray! It actually kept reigniting from within the fallen tree, but we evenyually stopped it. Then the next week someone did the same thing again! Go figure...
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![[53] Sunset, Arabian Sea, from 30,000 feet.](http://images.travelpod.com/users/el_condor/asia_2005.1143129300.picture_057.jpg)
