Vietnam
Tằng My

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    • Day 15

      A taste of simple rural life.

      March 9 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

      After exploring the farming area and doing some farming myself (seperate step and pics to come later) on the bicycles, we got back to the family house to do some cooking. We learnt about how to make traditional spring rolls, and did the filling of the rice paper ourselves. Then we helped fry them and do a basic chicken and mushroom dish. The family explained the different condiments and ways to each the spring rolls, so when lunch rolled around we had so much to eat! My pics only show half the quantities of what we actually had. It was good fun and tasted great!

      After lunch Michael had a relax in a hammock, and I zenned out in their super fancy massage chair. This thing was sublime. I'm going to google it and see how much it costs because it does your feet, full back, neck and head, and squeezes your arms and legs. Soooooo good!

      We then went for another cycle around the town, greeting many citizens and watching them go about day to day life. We stopped by a war vets house who was a gardening specialist. He had over 100 varieties of orchards, and some of the plants were extremely rare and expensive. We sat and had tea with him as he explained some history and info on his various plants and how he makes a living.

      Overall, it was a lovely day of quiet and simple things.
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    • Day 15

      Nam Hong: Wet Market

      March 9 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      Our first stop on today's cultural regional tour. We are in Nam Hong for the day, which is a rural Hanoi village with zero tourists. We are spending the day with a host family, going out on bikes, farming, learning to cook, and other various activities of rural life.

      We are treated very kindly here as the only white people. It's also interesting to see all the different fruits and meats for sale. We learnt how tofu is made here as well!

      We've seen so many varieties of meat for sale, live animals ready for slaughter, and even cooked dogs. Which obviously in our culture is intense as dogs are pets in Australia. But we also eat cows in Australia, and cows are viewed the same way as dogs in other cultures, so it's all relative. If you can't stomach the process of our food being prepared, should you really be eating it??? The cycle of life and reality of being omnivores.
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    • Day 15

      Farming in rural Hanoi!

      March 9 in Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      I got to do some farming of kohlrabi at the family's farm. They own over 100 acres in which they grow a wide range of rice and vegetables.

      The steps were pretty simple- prepare the soil, create the holes, plant the seedlings, and water with a bucket!

      They said that I had a natural gift for gardening as I did it very well. I'd hope after 7 years of the stuff that I'd know a thing or two hahaha. I really enjoyed this though as it was fun to get out in a farm for a change.

      Poor Michael did not enjoy it at all, as he had to wear size 45 gumboots when he's a size 48 in shoes! They don't have big sizes in Vietnam. Very sad boy indeed, so he did not garden and I got him back to the house as quickly as possible to get the things off once I knew he was in pain!
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