Mart-deBlog

And after the Yau, there were the Dong people; wearing blue traditional clothes, living higher up and having a refined architectural culture. The Dong bridge of Water and Rain took 12 years to built starting in 1902 and now attracts increasing tourism. In general the villages sometimes felt a little Lord of the Ringish, as not one house was like another and subtle asymmetry made every piece of wood come alive. We stumbled upon a market wittle little piggies in baskets and a a dentist pulling teeth, in a pagoda the local old folks were smoking pipe and watching karaoke television above a fire. The Dong enclave, a little romantic paradise in own kind.