{"id":81,"date":"2009-03-23T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-03-23T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:24:00","slug":"vietnam-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transporting a fridge in Hanoi old quarter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-103\" title=\"Hanoi old quarter\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7530.jpg\" alt=\"Carrying a fridge on a motorbike\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7530.jpg 640w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7530-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bamboo pipe near Sa Pa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86\" title=\"Bamboo water pipe\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7600.jpg\" alt=\"Water is carried to the rice paddies in bamboo pipes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7600.jpg 640w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stayed at the farmhouse of Ngi and Cuon in the village of Thang Phu, near Sa Pa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"Banquet with Cuon and Ngi and others\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7570.jpg\" alt=\"I stayed with these farmers.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7570.jpg 639w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7570-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ngi smoking tobacco in his bamboo water pipe. This is in his cornfield &#8211; I helped him till for corn planting. You can see how steep the hillside is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"Ngi at his corn patch\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7574.jpg\" alt=\"Smoking from his bamboo water pipe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7574.jpg 640w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7574-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ngi and I met Duong, my guide, on the way back from the the corn field, and the three of us went back on the motorbike. The most I saw was five on on one motorbike &#8211; a very modest load.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87\" title=\"Ngi and Chris coming from the field\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7579.jpg\" alt=\"After helping Ngi dig the corn patch\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7579.jpg 640w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7579-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These fishermen, Sang and his father and uncle, showed me the river at Hoi An on their boat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98\" title=\"Sang and his Dad and uncle on their fishing boat\" src=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7701.jpg\" alt=\"These fisherman showed me the river at Hoi An\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7701.jpg 640w, https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_7701-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transporting a fridge in Hanoi old quarter&#8230; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bamboo pipe near Sa Pa I stayed at the farmhouse of Ngi and Cuon in the village of Thang Phu, near Sa Pa Ngi smoking tobacco in his bamboo water pipe. This is in his cornfield &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vietnam photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}