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The mountain dwellers at work

The mountain dwellers, who are mainly distributed along the borders in the north and west of the country, from Lao Cai to Dien Bien Phu, are identifiable by the traditional costumes worn by the women on Sunday market day. The seven northern provinces are the densest ethnic concentration in the world, on a very narrow territory.
The most populated are the Muongs, Tàys and Thaïs. If you have the possibility of being invited to the inhabitants, by means of crossroads, other than by the channel of guided mass tourism, you will then discover the splendours and poverty, the habits and customs, of those draped in their dignity and loving their freedom. The scenes of life, narrowed on matriarchal societies and children, will command your respect.

A miller's workshop

Visit to his workshop

Another supportive traveler

After the effort, comfort

The miller's wife

Steaming sticky rice

Another family

Children with balloons

The friendship drink

Bamboo chopsticks factory

Cutting

Packaging

Transparent vermicelli factory

Draining

Extended drying

Cane sugar factory

Crystallization

Processing into molasses

Toothpick factory: drying bamboo stalks

"VIP" quality control by an adult

Standard quality control by a young woman

Gold-bearing land at the foot of the mountain

Ore transshipment

Mountain top mining

Cao Bang incense stick manufacturing village

Handcrafted at home...
...A parallel activity to agricultural work

Cao Bang: Blacksmith Village...

...specializing in cutlery...

...from all over the North Vietnam and Laos

Collective transplanting of rice...

...alone...

....under the drizzle in Cao Bang

Seamstress Muong

Transporter disembarking from the ferry on the Clear River of Tuyen Quang

Our hostel staff

Social Welfare Centers for the Hearing Impaired: Chuc Son (Ha Tay-Hanoi): Embroidery workshop. Vinh Phu: Conical hats and artificial flowers workshops