A man uses great skill and traditional knowledge to make a bamboo basket (Doko) by hand, Manaslu Region, Nepal, Asia

Local village fisherwoman wearing a Non La conical hat and sitting in a concrete lined bamboo boat, Ninh Binh, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Beautiful woman looking up in the Bamboo forest, Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, Mauritius, Africa

Iban tribeswoman mending bamboo longhouse verandah floor, Lemanak River, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Iban tribeswoman raking through drying rice crop on sacking laid on bamboo longhouse verandah, Lemanak River, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

A old Nepali man makes a traditional basket by weaving bamboo, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, Asia

Woman in bamboo hat, harvesting rice, bamboo basket on her back, rural Hsipaw, Shan state, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Burmese hats hand made from bamboo leaves and grasses, for sale in roadside market on Mandalay Road, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Backlit portrait of local woman wearing traditional bamboo hat and Thanaka face painting in the shape of leaves on her cheeks, near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burnma), Asia

Portrait of local woman wearing traditional bamboo hat, red dress and Thanaka face painting in the shape of leaves on her cheeks, near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burnma), Asia

Backlit portrait of local woman wearing traditional bamboo hat and Thanaka face painting in the shape of leaves on her cheeks, near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burnma), Asia

Local man wearing traditional bamboo hat, Amarapura, near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Myanmar hats on sale, mingun, near mandalay

A Chinese man in a conical hat trims small onions for cooking in the ancient town of Furong, China.

A cormorant fisherman in a conical hat on a bamboo raft throws a cast net in the Li River, Xingping, China.

Traditional woven bamboo conical hats for sale on the street in the ancient town of Furong, China.

A cormorant fisherman in a conical hat on a bamboo raft throws a cast net in the Li River, Xingping, China.

A cormorant fisherman in a conical hat on a bamboo raft throws a cast net in the Li River, Xingping, China.

A Chinese man in a conical hat trims small onions for cooking in the ancient town of Furong, China.

Basket maker, San Nicolas de Tolentino, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Chinese fisherman with a straw hat on a bamboo raft fishing near Yangshuo in the Yulong River in front of limestone cliffs, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guanxi, China

Women of the Akha ethnic minority from the province of Phongsali in Laos marching in colourful costumes with bamboo tubes at a festival, Jiangcheng, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, Southeast Asia, Asia

Chinese fisherman with a straw hat on a bamboo raft fishing near Yangshuo in Yulong River in front of flowering trees and karst rocks, Yangshuo, Guilin, Guanxi, China, Asia

Customers queue up to buy dim-sum style snack foods at a street corner food kitchen near Beijing Dong Lu, central Shanghai, China.

Fisherman At Lake Buyan, Bali, Indonesia

China, Li River, near Yangshou, Local men floating on bamboo raft.

Young boy in bamboo forest, Western Cape, South Africa.

Fisherman on his boat moving arched swing nets above the water at Loktak Lake

Hacienda Pinsaqui hacienda now hotel north of Quito musicians with trad instruments 'queno' flutes and 'rondador' panpipes, Colonial Architecture, Ecuador

Bamboo tray with digital camera and notebook, USA, New Jersey, Jersey City