Huong and Myriam's visit to Hai Phong

Finally we managed to arrange a visit for Myriam to Hai Phong. Not only Myriam but also little Huong - the intern in ILMC from Hanoi also participated in the visit, which is amazing because four of us Thang, Duong, Huong and Myriam often meet in Canh Nang on the weekends.

We often call Myriam chi gai and she call us "cac em". We take her to some places in Hai Phong. The morning aften she visited my house in Kien An and then we leave for Do Son. However the visit in Hai Phong is very short, just one night and one day. Then Myriam and Huong return to Hanoi.

But that is wonderful. We now stil meet Huong in Hanoi but for a long time we do not contact Myriam. Myriam oi, how are you now? Are you coming back to Vietnam one day?

Night visit to Dung's family in Thiet Ong commune

Oh my God, tonight we will go to visit Dung's house in Thiet Ong commune. We had many time to visit his family at day, but today we will visit his family at night. We will travel from Canh Nang to his house in Thiet Ong commune by minsks.

It will be very interesting again because we will have chance to drink pipe wine in his hourse-on-stilt again. You can see in the pix our friend Myriam also drink pipe very enthusiastically.

The weather is cold because now it is January but no problem because wine and excitement can help warm us up.

At Myriam's place

When we worked in Canh Nang, Ba Thuoc, we often had a lot of parties. The foreingers and local people had many chances to get together. We said cheers and danced. Life there was so relaxing!

Chi Vui and anh Manh also danced with us!

How can we have it again?

Di choi in Thiet Ong

These are the pix from the visit to Dung's house in Thiet Ong commune. As usual, we go to discover the local land and people by first visit to the local friend's family in Thiet Ong. That's Dung's family.

Dung's family lives on the house-on-stilt in the middle of a very large piece of land, including a big garden, a lot of trees, vegetables, chickens, buffaloes and a pond. These kinds of things can be found just in here, never be found in cities.



The scenery in Ba Thuong is very picturesque, which is created by ranges of mountains and a very big and long Ma river. Here you can put your feet in very cool water streams. The scenery you see in the pix above is located on the way from Thiet Ong commune to Thiet Ke commune.



That's food we were offered in Dung's house. A lot of nutritious food!



Dung's garden is very large. We asked Dung to go to his house again in the harvest season because we are eager to help his family with the gardening tasks.



Dung's house-on-stilt is very traditional and typical for ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Now a lot of ethnic minority families in Vietnam do not have houses-on-stilt because the cost to construct this kind of house is very expensive. I like living in this kind of house because it's very friendly to the environment. That's why local people here are living very healthily.



Thank you Dung for your invitation to your house. I hope that we will have chance to to back to your house very soon.