Riding A Horse And A Mule At The Grand National Livestock Exposition Age About 12
In 1979, he started travelling to Burma, the source of the finest rubies, sapphires, and jadeite in the world. His first memories and love were for color; and more of a love affair than a job. Just as jewels often are associated with allure and danger, so his travels increasingly took him to more remote areas of Burma, to encounter people that most of the world would never see or know.
Diran became fascinated with the myriad tribes who had remained unchanged for centuries, still untouched by modern times despite his fifteen years of travel. Civilisation, as well as the human traveller would have much to overcome to reach them – the wilderness, war zones, malarial mountains, up rivers where few had ventured, and even fewer returned.
