Terraced hillsides

The terracing is amazing to see. Some of the slopes they have terraced are incredibly steep and the landscape looks like it actually has the contour lines you see on a map.


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Blog: "Pillow Talk with Cooh and the Gang" and other Tales from Northern Vietnam
Date: January 28th 2007

Pillow Talk with Cooh and the Gang

We hired a tour guide and trekked 15km out of Sapa along the valley, through paddy fields and villages belonging to a minority people called the Black M’Hong. While they may be an ethnic minority in Vietnam as a whole, they actually make up 70% of the population of the Sapa region. In the town of Sapa itself you cannot walk five steps without bumpin ... read more







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