Overnight in Mai Chau: noisy pigs!

We headed to Mai Chau with Luyen and her colleagues/friends for an overnight visit of this village full of White Thais with black teeth. We enjoyed some delicious, sticky rice stuck in bamboo and came home with a stack of sugar canes sticks. The trip took a long time and Pit did not do well on the way there but on the way back, he mostly slept and did not feel sick thanks perhaps to the orange peel he sniffed the whole trip. We all slept together in the upstairs of a bamboo house on stilts. The driver snored but he was not the loudest in our group. The roosters cockadoodled for hours upon hours, the pigs and puppies squealed ad nauseum and fighting dogs were fierce. So we all woke up slightly stiff and sleepy but still enjoyed a marvelous hike through the rice fields and Pit did not fall in like he did in Bali!

After lunch, some members of our group went cylcing to another village but Frunty, Pit and I explored another area and came across a woman, ushering her white geese through the rice fields with a stick while wearing a conical hat. It was a scene right out of a movie and we followed, at her request, through some tiny paths to her house. It was a beautiful walk. I will post some photos soon to show our latest adventures. Time for dinner back here in Hanoi! Welcome, Gramma and Grampa to Singapore. So glad you made it despite the snowstorms and hope you have some restful days by the pool with your Slings!