Archive for August, 2005

Goodbye Hanoi, Hello Saigon

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Bă´c So’n
I never got to finish the tales of my Nghe An trip. I must tell you about the highlight, however, which was a small commune called Bă´c So’n. It is a remote ethnic minority community located deep in the Vietnamese countryside, where the roads are dirt and cars are a rare sight. We had [...]

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The Amazing Week in Nghe An

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

Last Sunday, the day I left with my co-workers on the Nghe An site visit, a tempestuous tropical storm swept through northern Vietnam. My colleagues, the ever superstitious Vietnamese, took it as a bad omen, but we decided to carry on as planned.
We were four: Ms. Khanh, the project manager; Mr. Tuan, our able driver; [...]

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