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By: Scott Stier
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| Thursday, 13-Apr-2006 00:00 |
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~King Cobra Wine in Sapa~
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The Snake wine had too much bite for my taste
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Gold toothed hill tribe gal
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Almost every woman had a baby on their back
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Local girls gnawing on sugar cane
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The cutest girl in all of Vietnam
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Backpacking Sapa Style
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Tawan and her guide on the edge
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Crossing paths with some hill tribe girls
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Hill tribe village and terrace farming
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Young mother
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Butt cheeks and missing teeth
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Colorful Church
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Tawan listens to a hill tribe choir in the old church
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Passing water buffalo herd on a swinging bridge
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Water buffalo herder
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Buffalo climbing
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Nosepicking Nudist Boy
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Hard working little guy
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Dragonfly biting Tawan
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In a pinch
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Sapa street sweepers and their uphill struggle
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My guide and personal driver
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Horse's Ass
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Haulin' Grass
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Little Papoose
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Grandma Babysitting
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The baby ready to topple
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Worn out from babysitting
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Asleep like the baby
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Tawan a few minutes before losing her hat
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Silohette framed by a window pane
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Fine vintage snake wine
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This is a church, this is the steeple
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Standing guard
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Hill tribe woman hanging out at the church
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Colorful market folk
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The view from our room
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Thrilled with sifting herbs
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Baby Bear
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Checking out some goods
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Kids playing on a bridge
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Swinging bridge
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Sapa Swingset
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Swinging
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Suckered into trying on a hat
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Sweeping up
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Sapa fashion
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Up a tree
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Market saleswomen
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Vietnam's cutest kid
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Cutest kid again in the market
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Serving up my glass of snake wine
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Getting ready for bottoms up
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Snake wine bite
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An overnight train from Hanoi carried us high into the mountains of Northwestern Vietnam near the border of China. We visited Sapa, a small town high in the mountains. The town had sweeping views of the surrounding mountains and was chock full of hill tribe people from nearby villages. There were people from a variety of different groups, each group featuring its own style of clothes.
The first day we hiked for several hours down the side of a mountain and through a beautiful valley, passing through some hill tribe villages. The mountain sides were carved up into terraces used for farming. The area was beautiful and the people were colorful.
The weather started out hot and clear, but a few days into our stay, Sapa was swallowed up by clouds, storms, and lightning. It got cold.
I had been eyeing snake wine throughout Vietnam. Snake wine is basically a huge jar of rice wine, with a big dead snake or snakes floating inside. Supposedly, drinking snake wine is extremely good for health and can cure many ailments. I was in a small cafe, high in the mountains of Sapa during a wicked storm. The power kept cutting in and out. There was a huge jar of snake wine with a monstorous king cobra curled up inside. I decided if I was going to try it, what better time than during a booming lightning storm in the mountains of Nam. They dished me up a glass and I kicked it back. It didn't taste too bad, but it did have a bit too much bite for my taste.
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