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Mountain tribes of North Vietnam
Mountain tribes of North Vietnam
The north-western corner of Vietnam offers a spectacular scenery of steeply eroded limestone rocks covered with jungle and terraced fields. This area is home to a great variety of mountain tribes, some still living as they have for generations. Their village architecture, language, and cultivating methods have many distinctive and attractive features. But it is the fabulous colours and intricate embroidery on their native dress that really make a journey into this remote region worth-while.
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’Brick factories near Hà Dông.’
Brick factories near Hà Dông make use of the clay that is to be found in the Red River valley west of Hanoi. Photo Mick Palarczyk](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/233989236_C463v-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.257]
’Brick factories near Hà Dông.’
Brick factories near Hà Dông make use of the clay that is to be found in the Red River valley west of Hanoi. Photo Mick Palarczyk")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.259] ’Brick factory.’ Workers laden with unfired bricks climb rickety stairs to fill the bowels of this brick factory in the valley of the Dà River at Ky Son near Hòa Binh. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/27567733_yYqU5-Ti-4.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.259] ’Brick factory.’ Workers laden with unfired bricks climb rickety stairs to fill the bowels of this brick factory in the valley of the Dà River at Ky Son near Hòa Binh. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.263] ’Stilted house.’ A family of the White Thái mountain tribe lives in this stilted house at Lac Village near Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/27567722_ttfso-Ti-2.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.263] ’Stilted house.’ A family of the White Thái mountain tribe lives in this stilted house at Lac Village near Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Stilted house in rice fields.’
A family of the White Thái mountain tribe lives in this stilted house at Lac Village near Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/233988934_HJvCB-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.265]
’Stilted house in rice fields.’
A family of the White Thái mountain tribe lives in this stilted house at Lac Village near Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.268] ’Lac Village.’ Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/27567721_DxX3z-Ti-2.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.268] ’Lac Village.’ Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Stilted houses in Mai Châu.’
A street in the village of Mai Châu is lined with the stilted houses of the White Thái mountain tribe. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/233988216_EWGbZ-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.273]
’Stilted houses in Mai Châu.’
A street in the village of Mai Châu is lined with the stilted houses of the White Thái mountain tribe. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Opium is destructive.’
A road sign near Môc Châu reads: Óopium is destructive to the community.Ó Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/233988521_Uan8j-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.274]
’Opium is destructive.’
A road sign near Môc Châu reads: Óopium is destructive to the community.Ó Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.276] ’Warning against drugs.’ A road sign near Môc Châu reads: ”Hard drugs, an exceptional catastrophe. How it begins . . and ends.” Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/27567720_aPQnA-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.276] ’Warning against drugs.’ A road sign near Môc Châu reads: ”Hard drugs, an exceptional catastrophe. How it begins . . and ends.” Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Rice fields near Yên Châu.’
Rice fields and ponds occupy the bottom of the Nâm San valley east of Yên Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/233988781_QCrsd-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.278]
’Rice fields near Yên Châu.’
Rice fields and ponds occupy the bottom of the Nâm San valley east of Yên Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Lac Village.’
Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk. ![> [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.268] ’Lac Village.’ Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/27567721_DxX3z-S-2.jpg "> [VIETNAM.NORTH 21.268] ’Lac Village.’ Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
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’Lac Village.’
Morning mist dissolves when sunrays reach Lac Village which lies surrounded by rice fields on the bottom of the deep valley of Mai Châu. Photo Mick Palarczyk. filename: vietnam-21268 |
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