
A night with a White Thai family
Sticky rice and rice wine at dinner, bamboo dancing, waking to the rooster in a stilt house.

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Sticky rice and rice wine at dinner, bamboo dancing, waking to the rooster in a stilt house.

Eight kilometres across the terraces with a Hmong guide, lunch in a family home.

Buffalo, embroidered brocades and horse soup: the mountains' great weekly market.

Spin hemp, dye with indigo and draw with beeswax alongside the women of Ta Phin.

Orchards, a dusk sampan ride and elephant-ear fish for dinner with a Mekong family.

The UNESCO-listed sung poetry of the scholars, performed intimately in an Old Quarter house.


Read the doctors' steles and try calligraphy with a Hanoi calligrapher.

Enter at opening time, before the heat and the groups, followed by traditional Cham dance.

Throwing and glazing with a family of ceramicists for fifteen generations.
Sunrise through the east gate, away from the crowds at the ponds, then a picnic breakfast.
Witness the monks' alms round beside a local family, respecting the ritual.

Twelve dishes of the Nguyen court served in a garden house, with court music.

Bún chả, bánh cuốn, egg coffee: a night tour riding pillion on a vintage Vespa.

Pick herbs, cook and lunch with a family of market gardeners.

Lakeside tai chi, the Long Bien wholesale market, drip coffee on a plastic stool.

By sampan from 5am, as boats trade pineapples and watermelons to the hum of engines.

Dykes, rice paddies, fishing villages and a basket boat on the Thu Bon river.

Make a lantern with an artisan, then set it on the river at nightfall.
Floating gardens, lotus-silk weavers and fishermen rowing with one leg.
A village on ten-metre stilts and a flooded forest, by canoe with a fisherman.

Cat Ba seafood under the stars, in a cove where the boat anchors alone.

A walk through the valley of bamboo water wheels, spring swimming and a lodge picnic.

Three hours of rowing between caves and temples, before the visitors arrive.

Paddle beneath limestone arches into inner lagoons reachable at low tide.

Paradise Cave and Phong Nha's underground river, then kayaking to Dark Cave.

Ma Pi Leng Pass and the Dong Van plateau riding pillion with an experienced driver.

A night with national park rangers watching green turtles nest.
Swim in the turquoise pools when the forest belongs to the birds.
Float over two thousand temples in the golden light of early morning.

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