Went out for coffee this morning and saw more fresh cut flowers.
The rose buds are wrapped with newsprint to protect them from the heat until the customer buys them. It's extraordinarily warm here this year so extra precautions are needed.
Also saw a cage of dogs on their way to meet their fate. We think it's sad but dog is just another meat to the northern Vietnamese and the hill tribes. I don't think I've eaten any yet but it's hard to tell about some of the dishes so I'm ordering more and more vegetables and tofu and less meat.
We climbed almost straight up the mountainside through switchback after switchback and several 11% grades. Topped the pass at around 4500 feet, well above the smog and smoke level.
There are terraced paddies wherever there's enough room to work them. All built, maintained, planted and harvested by hand. Some are only a few feet wide.
The rose buds are wrapped with newsprint to protect them from the heat until the customer buys them. It's extraordinarily warm here this year so extra precautions are needed.
Also saw a cage of dogs on their way to meet their fate. We think it's sad but dog is just another meat to the northern Vietnamese and the hill tribes. I don't think I've eaten any yet but it's hard to tell about some of the dishes so I'm ordering more and more vegetables and tofu and less meat.
We climbed almost straight up the mountainside through switchback after switchback and several 11% grades. Topped the pass at around 4500 feet, well above the smog and smoke level.
There are terraced paddies wherever there's enough room to work them. All built, maintained, planted and harvested by hand. Some are only a few feet wide.
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