We are presently living in North Vietnam.We live in a Vietnamese community across the red river near hanoi.We have decided to base ourselves here for the next twelve months to experience all we can during this time.In May we travelled to Lao and spent time with our wonderful Lao friends and spent far to much time enjoying spicy delicious Lao food and of course drinking beer lao.We visited minority villages and took books to the schools,plus swam in cool waterfalls and of course revelled in the handicrafts.We have spent a few weeks in the mountainous regions of Northern Vietnam where many different Minority peoples live .We have visited the Black ,Green,Blue,Red and Flower Hmong People.The red and Black Dzao,the Lu ,Tay Giay,Sa pho and White Thai .We plan to do a lot more travelling to source unusual and beautiful hand crafted products from these people.Our journey this year has taken us to Halong Bay ,swimming and eating freshly caught seafood to Ninh Binh riding motor bikes through small interesting villages and soaking in mineral spas that are suppose to make the body strong ..Even though i was so tired after, all i wanted to do was sleep.