Hello, I'm attaching a ton of photo's from a place in north Vietnam called Sapa. Its an overnight train ride away from the main city Hanoi, and is absolutely mental. When you get off the train in a town called Loukai (or something), you get a bus ride up into the mountain town of Sapa, which takes you through one of the sections of mountains where the vietnamese grow their rice (and they make a lot of rice). The problem is to make rice the ground needs to be level so the water can stay in the fields and help it grow, and vietnam is not known for many flat places. So instead, to use the hilly land most effeciently, farmers have cut away into the side of the mountains and hills to make a series
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