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October 26th 2008

Published: November 19th 2008

Hanoi Getting to Hanoi after 25 hours on a bus was a bit daunting. Again, I'd only done my research on the bus getting there, and wasn't quite sure where I wanted to go. But I teamed up with a pair of Canadian girls, and after looking around a bit we found a room for $3.5 each including breakfast. This turned out to be a really nice place - Family Hotel it was called - and they invited you to ... Read Full Entry

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Sapa

Hmong women carrying firewood

Little boy looking at the tourists

Barrel of Indigo dye

Used for traditional Hmong clothes and batik dying techniques

Hmong women follow you everywhere

Hmong women

Anita, Karin and a Hmong woman

Sapa

Rice paddies in the rain

You buy from me?

Hmong girls sewing

Hmong boys walking on stilts

Two hmong girls

The one on the left was called Pan and she taught me to count to 10 in Vietnamese while walking with us through the rain. She's 12.

Mud

This is a kind of 'before' picture, although I actually have no 'after' picture - but I'm sure you can imagine just how filthy I was after falling up a hill with as much mud as here....

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