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Burmese machu pichu in the lost land of Hpa-An. A landscape of towering limestone karsts, unexplored caves, ancient monasteries and more than the odd sunset on steroids. Myanmar is a wrap!! Brief stop over in the uk then ‘Straya I’m coming for you next... 🇲🇲 👉🏼 🇦🇺

Today started out with a sunrise over mist covered karsts, progressed to cancelling an interview due to armed insurgents, then met a monk who was angry at all the people having sex in his cave and finished with a hike up a karst as a storm blew in from the Bay of Bengal #lifeisunpredictable

Found them!!!! The endangered Western hoolock gibbons. Each morning they make a territorial call like a group of people repeatedly stepping on an plug. Also rather less attractively make an alarm call like someone being sick... despite that, they’re cuter than a basket full of puppies.

This man is over 90 years old. He was born into a British colony named Burma, watched the Japanese march through it, saw independence disintegrate into civil war and his home region turn into a insurgency. He now lives in a country named Myanmar and spends his days in a peaceful village high in the mountains surrounded by forest, singing gibbons and laughing children.

I’m in the western mountains of Myanmar on the border of rakhine, in a village belonging to the chin people. There’s no running water or mains electricity, the village is a 3 hour hike from the nearest road, surrounded by forest and yet somehow there’s mobile internet. This lady is weaving a traditional cloth that they’ve never sold and instead give to one another in the village. One ‘longyi’ (a traditional wrap around for men and women) takes about 5 days to make.

Sunrise in south-east Asia. Nothing quite like it... I’ll be heading back to Myanmar (Burma) 🇲🇲 next week for two film projects featuring the endangered eastern hoolock gibbon and the intertwined livelihoods of coffee growing communities. And an epic project on the limestone karsts and caves of Myanmar. This will explore undocumented ecosystems and the special role caves play in Buddhist culture in northern Myanmar. We’ll also be exploring the largest cave system in the country, where plans to create a new protected area are gathering steam. Stay tuned!! 🎥

🔈Sun! Snow! Parties! Dance-offs! Backflips! Giant snow gorillas! ONYA MERIBEL!!!!!!! 🙌🏽🗻🍻🦍

🇵🇬 ARE YOU IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA?? 🇵🇬 check out PNG’s main TV channel EMTV during the 6pm news bulletin each evening for the next 3 months and you’ll see the short films I made for #actnowpng to raise the issue of customary land rights being lost to big corporations and government. Currently exploring options to shoot a film there later this year! Get in touch if you’d like to team up!

Second run at the mountains... #dontpissoffthelocals