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While visiting Huong's family, she agreed to accompany me on a walk through their Muong Khuong neighborhood

We set off with Loan and Dung in tow

 

 

Soon we met Hong, who was just arriving home from shopping

 

 

 

She invited us in and showed us around

 

 

she has a hard life

her husband has a bad foot, and can't work much

she has had to do most of the work for the family

 

 

 

the bedroom

 

she has a daughter in college and a son in high school

 

all four sleep in this one bed

 

 

the kitchen

fairly primitive

 

she grows vegetables, to sell

 

 

she fixed tea for us, her hostpitality undiminished by her travails

 

we left her with a gift of money

 

 

 

I struck up a conversation with La Ta Sen

 

 

and as so often happens, I soon had curious onlookers

 

that big odd foreigner, ya know?

 

A little earlier I had come across three Hmong women

 

 

 

 

The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand

 

 

 

their dress and manners are quite distinctive

 

I saw many in Muong Khuong

 

 

Cao Tran Hung and his little friend

 

 

Plying the streets of Hanoi I came across Hab

 

 

with granddaughter Hien

 

 

who's that crazy falang with his hand on my shoulder?

 

 

Whoops

How'd that get in here?

 

 

and Hom in Hoi An

 

 

who went bonkers with giggles when I planted one on her cheek

 

this is pushing the envelope in Vietnam

 

I like envelopes

 

 

and Kep, a dapper gentleman

 

 

at least part way down

 

 

In the Old Quarter of Hanoi I hired Doan to walk with me, to translate and help me identify things

He stopped occasionally to garner a puff from a local

 

 

Just been healed, praise the Lord?

 

 

 

No, I was strolling by, and caught her exercising

 

 

One of the more interesting beards I've seen

 

Vietnamese men are not very hairy

 

 

A Hoi An woman

 

I saw many with teeth like this

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