Today Thanh (T-ang) our tour guide took us to a small weekly market. The drive took over three hours, but the scenery continues to take our breath away. Every time you turn a corner (which is often) the whole country side looks differently. We have taken about a hundred pictures and I still don't think that we could adequately capture the sights or the smells. It is difficult to describe what traveling is like here. The vehicles really follow no rules and honking is the only way of telling people to get out of the way. They tell us that accidents are not very common, but yesterday mom and I heard the crash of skooters right behind us, and today we saw a truck that had driven over the side of the mountain. The jeep was
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