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December 25th 2008

Published: February 12th 2009

Hanoi I arrived in Sapa in the Northwest of Vietnam on the 21st December and spent a day there while waiting to catch the night train to Hanoi which I duly did. Hanoi was a bit of a shock to the system when compared with China given the volume of mopeds flying around all over the place and the fact that there were a huge amount of Westerners wandering about - I was no longer a novelty. The mausol... Read Full Entry

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Buon Don - "Resort"

Dray Sap Falls

Tour to Dalat - Coffee farmer and family

Tour to Dalat - old bunker

Tour to Dalat - Rice noodles drying in the sun

Tour to Dalat - pepper plantation

Tour to Dalat - Ho Chi Minh trail

This is the trail at its widest. At the beginning it would have been much smaller as the foilage would have provided cover from the air.

Tour to Dalat - Minority woman and children

Tour to Dalat - preparations for Tet

Tet (Vietnamese new year) was on the 26th Jan and people were buying flowers etc from stalls such as these.

Tour to Dalat - Women washing vegetables

Tour to Dalat - My steed

Tour to Dalat - Silk factory

The silkworm wraps himself in silk and is than put into hot water where the silk is extracted. The dead worm is than sent to local restaurants.

Tour to Dalat - Silk factory

Women extracting the silk

Dalat - Tet party with the easyriders

The pig was roasted and placed outside the premises for the morning where incense etc was burned in front of it. It was than chopped up and devoured by the crew.