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The
risks are not those we are told about: no tiger will devour us and it is
unlikely that we will be speared by a savage. A “savage” who, by the way, no
longer uses a spear, but a “Kalashnikov”, a much cleaner and safer method of
killing, something else that the consumer society has brought with it.
Sometimes
the risks come from drinking tea in cups of dubious aspect - to put it
elegantly- and of a disquieting color. At other times they come from getting
“Holy Water” from the Ganges in the face. But most times, they come from using
rusty taxis that have never had a technical inspection as transportation.
On
this trip I was lucky: I wasn't required to ingest “Prasat” (the sweet food
that you get at the temples as the highest blessing of all), nor to share my
plate with the workers at the salt mines (it is interesting to see the level of
hygiene of crockery at some places in this part of the world).
I
have decided to draw up a list of potential risk factors for
travelers/photographers, all of them undoubtedly of great interest to insurance
companies. Their order does not imply a risk hierarchy...
