We took a trip to the North West of Vietnam, up near the Chinese border. Very high, mountainous but famously beautiful countryside.
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| Paddy fields |
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| Paddy fields on terraced hillsides |
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| Our guide - Ku |
This was a long journey and we had to take an overnight train to get to Sapa. We arrived at 5.00am and were collected from Lao Cai and driven up in to the mountains to Sapa. We had breakfast before meeting up with our guide Ku, a member of the Black Hmong, whose English was extremely good. She took us for a 10 kilometre hike to her village where we had lunch before walking on to meet her "grandparents" and learn all about dying hemp using a natural dye made from indigo extracted from plants in their own garden, The villagers are poor and most of their land is used for growing rice and a mixture of vegetables. They keep all sorts of animals as well, which they either eat or sell. A good day and then back on the night train for Hanoi.
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