Day 3- Pho Bang to Lao xe to Ma Le

We woke to sun and blue sky which was quite nice after 2 days of overcast skies and rain. We left our homestay and took a small road to the town of Lao Xe often passing smiling men, women and children dressed in beautifully colourful ethnic clothes and going about their day either carrying baskets of corn, stacks of wood or grass. We stop at the local shop and someone kindly fixes Lila's pants elastic which broke this morning (without wanting a payment). There seems to be a high population of young children in this and many villages we pass, all their faces so expressive and super cute! We head on to the neighbouring village which borders China (I'll write more about that next). We take lovely small roads through small villages, often stopping at the local shop for a small snack, coffee and today we tried the sugarcane ice blocks. Again we are spoilt by very amazing and spectacular scenery. Each turn you take seems to open up another amazing view of the rice paddies turning yellow in colour almost ready to be harvested and behind these what seem to be never ending mountains of different sizes and shapes. We visited another Chinese border point and head to a homestay in village Ma Le, which is in a beautiful 200 year old wooden house.Read more