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| IF you ever think your life is too hard, spend a day with the Vietnamese in their pursuits. |
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| Barefoot. Keeping the troughs free of mud. Collecting the small crabs that are there. I am sure they bite! |
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| Sweet potato farming. Again barefoot. |
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| The biking group taking a 'selfie'. The tour guides are in the orange top (Tringh) and behind her in the orange cap (Lily). |
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| Fishing. Yep, fishing. |
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| Our biking trails were awesome. Okay, pretty mucky, but fun! |
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| This was before we biked across. Feeling pretty confident. |
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| The bridge is the only way across the water. Several families go together to build it and then they take turns collecting a toll from those who cross. It is literally made of bamboo poles latched together with a strong netting material. Really fun to bike across. About 1/2 kilometer long. |
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| One of the kids had a bike wreck so we had to make an unexpected stop to patch him up. The villagers all came out to witness the production. I loved it b/c the kid wasn't really hurt at all and it gave me a chance to take more pictures without holding up the group! |
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| Sights of a fishing village |
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| Oh, the zoom on my camera broke so all of the pictures were just what the camera eye could see. Made it difficult, however I was proud of myself for getting what shots I could. |
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| Another idea of one of our bike paths. |
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| Time to cross to the next island. We loaded up all of our bikes on this small boat. Plus 11 people! The boatman just dug his pole into the mud to anchor the boat. The plank of wood loads in bikes and people. |
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| This time we had a proper dock to unload onto. Of course made of bamboo. The man is Anton from Melbourne Australia. He is a basketball player so he and Dad had fun talking sports. |
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| We biked from island to island, and from village to village |
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| They invented these saucer type boats to avoid tax, since they are baskets and not boats. |
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| The boats are not easy to navigate since you have to paddle differently than you would in a canoe or kayak. If you paddle on the sides you will only spin. Dad and a lady collided like bumper cars. |
2 comments:
Now that is a bike tour!
The "boats" at the end made me laugh. Well, you don't have to pay taxes but they also don't work very well. haha.
It looks like an amazing experience to be there!
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