Sa Pa valley (vietnam)

Marc and I spent a couple of days in the north of Vietnam, where we slept at a family's house in the middle of the rice paddies. It was an extraordinary trip, and we made tons of friends.

                                We were at Mr. Chang's house. He loved rice wine, and was kind enough to share his meal and drinks with us.

                                                       The group

More Hanoi

                        Puppet Show: a show that illustrates various aspects of traditional life for a Vietnamese

                      The man who liberated Vietnam, and who has a city named after him.

                                Communism and the end of the war liberated Vietnam from the chains of colonization and the vice created from capitalism.

                                       A real Vietnamese...

In the jungle, the mighty Thai jungle

Baloo and I, Mogli, are in the middle of the Thai jungle, with some other animals doing a 8 hour trek to a small village. It's been very entertaining till now, and we are both having a blast.
We're really sorry that we have not been putting any pics up. We haven't found any comps with Internet yet.

Singapore

Back for 2 nights. Leaving for Thailand tomorrow.
Singapore is a very cool place.

Sa Pa valley

Marc and I spent a couple of days in the mountains 10 hours north of Hanoi, in the beautiful Sa Pa valley where we walked around in ankle-deep mud and rice paddies. We slept at a very very hospitable Vietnamese family's house (on the floor) after a big meal and around 12 rounds of rice wine shots. We didn't change or shower for 3 days, and as it was freezing we never took our clothes off. We couldn't have had more fun. :)
Pics to come of course.
We then leave for Singapore and will have just a day to visit whatever we didn't have time to see last time, before leaving for Bangkok and our 3 week adventure around Thailand.

Hanoi

no pics of Hanoi yet. But the city is very grey and there aren't a lot of "pretty" things in the city. We are taking a night bus to go to the Sa Pa valley, which we heard was amazing. Unfortunately, it's getting cold here ... damn i wish we were back in the south hemisphere.

Cambodia 2: the floating village

Unfortunately though, this is not the rainy season, so it's not really floating. ;) However, it gave us a good idea of how the villagers live.