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Originally Posted by GemGeek  Thanks Vincent, for sharing your article. It's very welcome here at the Pearl-Guide forum. The photographs are stunning and give an intimate look into the lives of the Mergui people. |
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Originally Posted by pattye Adding my thanks for sharing your photos, narrative and videos of your remarkable journey. It makes me appreciate my beautiful pearls all that much more. |
Dear GemGeek and pattye,
Thanks for these nice comments, I will be very happy if these reports makes you appreciate more your pearls: Personally this visit has also really increased the interest I had for pearls in general and South Sea pearls in particular. I hope also that these photos of the Burmese people we met will also make people around discover and appreciate as much as we did the Mergui people which were very welcoming and kind to us. It was really easy to become crazy about pearls meeting such nice people and such a beautiful archipelago!
All the best,
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Vincent Pardieu,
"Travel addicted gemologist"
http://www.fieldgemology.org
Note: Any views expressed here are V. Pardieu’s opinions and do not necessarily reflect those of the Gübelin Gem Lab (
www.gubelinlab.com ) where he is an employee since Feb 2007.