Breakfast of too-sweet pancakes.
14km walk. For a town with too-modern Lom village with Green Hmong and Red Dao. Saw practically no one in traditional wear. Not excited by it.
It was a 45 minute pave road walk, another 45 minute uphill walk, 15 minutes around the village and nothing excited me.
Half hour break for picnic lunch. Laughing cow cheese and soup powder base from some instant noodle packet for the egg. Soup powder base totally unnecessary.
Return to guest house was another 2 hour walk to the largest town in the area, Nam Cuong. From this “big road” we were picked up by the driver and driven back 6-7 km to the guest house. Those 6-7 km would’ve taken us another 2 hour walk if we had done it on foot, as it is an uphill/downhill winding single track road.
Along the walk back, passed another Tay village called Qua, but again, I became more interested in animals.
Got back by 2pm, took a nap till 3:40, then went out again to take some shots in better light. Quite happy with that. But noticed that camera images have bigf dust spots. Considering I only put on this 50mm lens and have never taken it off, this is quite bad.
Ba Be Lake, worth only one night, I think. Tomorrow is a return to Hanoi. Breakfast is at 8am, Departing 830am. But I think I shall really make the effort to go and take some early morning photos tomorrow. Shall I attempt a 530 wake up?
CUTE ANIMALS!!! <3