We do yoga and look for yoga centers in whatever city we find ourselves in. Hanoi, Vietnam Vinales, Cuba Cali, Colombia In Hanoi, it took a bit of exploration to find the perfect yoga center. Our first try was scary. …
First visit to a bamboo factory in Viet Nam.
In Hanoi many of the streets are arranged according to industry/products. There is the hardware street, the bedding street, the coffee street, the Chinese medicine street, silk street, hair salons and there is also the bamboo street. Bamboo poles, bamboo…
Khong Mi Chinh ~ MSG ~ Viet Nam
Vietnamese is a ridiculously difficult language to learn. I thought Spanish was hard, but this Vietnamese in an entirely different league. There are five different tones. A word takes on a whole different meaning depending upon whether you say it…
Foodie update ~ Sea snails, Superfoods, and Sweets, Viet Nam
Sea snails Just one of the more intriguing street side vendors… cooked on the street corner with lemon grass and spring onions and served with a spicy chili sauce. Utensil used for spearing the snail and extraction, are small metal…
Video – Trip from Hanoi to Ninh Binh region – of rice paddies and limestone cliffs
Limestone cliffs and rice paddies … beauty all around ~ Tam Coc Garden Hotel
We take the 9 a.m. train out of Hanoi, towards Ninh Binh in the countryside. The train is pretty easy. We are the only non Vietnamese (falang = gringo in Latin America), and squeeze into our seats with the rest…
First Vietnamese connections
Building a new life is a multi-dimensional process. One selects a place, a region, a city or a neighborhood. Then one starts making human connections. Some are transient, others are lasting. One never knows. Here are early connections that already…
Museum of Ethnology ~ previews of future discoveries…Hanoi,Viet Nam
Our visit to the Hanoi Museum of Ethnology whets our appetite for visits to the countryside. In all, Vietnam is comprised of 54 distinct ethnic groups, each with their own language, traditions, arts, clothing etc. Here, 9 sub groups of…