Getaway

ALL LIFE IS HERE

A sharp turn off the highway landed us on a dodgy dirt road lined with small, red mud-brick houses with neat windows and straw roofs, raised on mud plinths.

Time slowed as we watched women wrapped in colourful cloth hoeing the fields, some with babies tucked on to their backs. We passed

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