Mai Chau

We went on a tour with a company called Ethnic Travel. They gave us nice water holder bags with their name on it. We went to a place called Mai Chau. We stayed in a traditional Vietnamese house. We got our room sorted with mosquito nets and Windows with wooden or bamboo shutters, no glass. We came down to the part kind of under the house, which was open with no walls but where we could sit around and e adults had some beers and we talked and talked. In the garden of the house which was on stilts, there was a pond where the owners kept fish. Our driver and our tour guide were fishing. I caught one fish, but it was small. It didn’t matter because we could still keep it to eat.

Our tour guide showed us a magic plant that you could blow bubbles from. You broke the stalk, pulled the stalk back a little bit, then blow on it. I couldn’t do it 😒. I ran ahead but I had to keep on stopping because I didn’t know which way to go – there were lots of lanes through the countryside. But I saw a lot of rice and I a few people harvesting the peanuts and weeding the rice and carrying the rice. I also saw one woman carrying the heavy stuff on a basket on her back all bent over. The man with her didn’t help.