Dirt all year round. Vietnamese village

2. In many areas of northern Vietnam village lives exclusively terraced farming, growing rice and other moisture-loving culture.
The peculiarity of these places in a very large amount of moisture. And it is this cause that unique village specificity, when the dirt under your feet actually here all year round.



3. As a rule, the village farmers have a small number of homes that are located not like we used to see in our villages - along the streets, and scattered on the slopes of mountains and hills, among the terraces and land holdings



4. Dwellings peasants usually wooden and look really pathetic.
The main building material in these places - bamboo. Most often it is not even buy, but just cut down to the nearest bamboo thickets, because of the relatively short time he was there again grows



5. Sometimes farmhouses are located in the middle of the terraces or flooded fields.



6. Looking at some of the village, it seems as if the house floating in the water, and do not stand on the ground.



7. inhabited island in the middle of rice fields



8. Village Street.
In many courts of water coming to the very threshold. Although the boat is customized directly under the door.



9. Life in the mud. All year round.



10. Many people simply do not wear shoes. After all, except for the rubber nothing else is not good.
So many people walk or in slippers or just barefoot, risking injury, snake bites or insect.



11. All my life peasants cultivate their terraces.



12. Collecting shoots for sale on the market



13. Vietnamese gardens with herbs and vegetables



14. In some villages across cobbled streets.
But a step to the side, and there are the same terrace, the same mud knee



15. Village School
In general, most stone buildings placed on the hills, to the water by gravity leaves without flooding yards and roads, without destroying them.



16. The banks of the creek. Farmers establishing hanging post and waterwheel water supply.



17. Suspension bridge in a rural. Of the metal parts are only 6 cables - 4 lower and two upper, handrails.
Everything else - the board and vines. Floorboards, incidentally, also strapped to the ropes with vines.



18. Can these guys ask to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait)?



19. Peasant.
Judging from the fingerprints on her neck, her husband is very fond of.



20. Civilization and penetrates into places too.
Some farmers can boast not only a clean white shirt, and a smartphone ...
By the way, what is remarkable, almost wherever we were in the outback, works perfectly 3G-internet ...
Here you have a third world country, here and peasants in the mud.



21. Painting like from a fairy tale. Alenka and her son Ivan.
Only Vietnamese.



22. Ubiquitous kids. Everywhere in the Vietnamese village of huge amount, as in other matters, and any other Asian country.

23. And the mother with the children too.

24. Children are children.
We were pretty telephoto away from the couple and the boy still saw us and waved.
Friendly and they are welcome. Even though they live in the mud ...