Dinner at a Thai ethnic minority house

I made friend with a Thai ethnic minority boy and he invited me to have dinner with his brothers and friends. We had snails, bamboo worms (my first ever taste), bamboo, beef and fried egg. The boys drank a lot of rice wine. (Bữa tối tôi được mời ở gia đình người dân tộc Thái tại Tú Lệ gồm có ốc, sâu tre (lần đầu tiên ăn món này), măng, thịt bò và trứng rán).

The rice harvest in Mù Cang Chải and Trạm Tấu

October 12th 2012
I am just back home after traveling 2,450km by local bus, taxi and motorbike in 7 provinces of the North West and the North East mountain regions of Vietnam. This was the longest road trip I’ve ever made. I had traveled for 27 days from 13 September to 9 October and it was also one of the most interesting trips of my life. I had a traveling companion on this trip and we shared some sections of t ... read more

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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