{"id":11325,"date":"2019-06-12T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=11325"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:46:58","slug":"winter-17-18-from-yen-minh-to-tan-quang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/winter-17-18-from-yen-minh-to-tan-quang\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 17\/18 from Y\u00ean Minh to T\u00e2n Quang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Had a good night at the Cao Nguyen Guesthouse in Yen Minh. Took some time till Mitsos was happy with his breakfast, but after that, we continued our drive towards the West of Vietnam. But today we only drove South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mountain<\/picture>
Looks like it will be a nice day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fields<\/picture>
Agriculture eats its way up the mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fields<\/picture>
They use all the land up to the mountaintops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountain<\/picture>
Mountains and more Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountans<\/picture>
Guess next time the fields go up all the way to the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountains<\/picture>
If burning down the last bits of forrest left is the envirommental service – they do a good job!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fire<\/picture>
Forrest protection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Karst<\/picture>
Karst Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Laundry<\/picture>
Laundry Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Small<\/picture>
A small stream creates its own surroundings with nice bamboo trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lone<\/picture>
Lone Survivors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chinese<\/picture>
Chinese graves in front of a perfect chocolate hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Chocolate<\/picture>
The Vietnamese Chocolate Hills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bike<\/picture>
Again a day with almost no traffic up here in the Vietnamese mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Northern<\/picture>
More of those Northern Vietnam hills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hills\"<\/picture>
Weeeee – I need this with blue sky :-(<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Road<\/picture>
The windy road into the next valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rice<\/picture>
A dream? I want my house here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"More<\/picture>
More Karst Mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountains<\/picture>
Mountain rice fields<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Rice<\/picture>
This looks like a lot of work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountains\"<\/picture>
The road winds itself further into the valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Last<\/picture>
Last big tree left. Must be a important one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Mountain<\/picture>
If you stop working on this kind of fields the rain will kill them in no time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Poor<\/picture>
Earth house – must be a poor farmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Cable<\/picture>
A small village on the other side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Small<\/picture>
You can see the poor farmer on the right has only a plastic house. The middle class on the left has a wooden house, and the new rich have proper, big traditional wood houses. Building this is quite expensive now since there are not a lot of big trees left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Traditional<\/picture>
Another traditional house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Traditional<\/picture>
And another new one with two floors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"House<\/picture>
The concrete one was there first. The wood one is new and not finished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Uncle<\/picture>
Uncle Ho with local farmers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Tea<\/picture>
Harvesting tea leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

T\u00e2n Quang<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Room<\/picture>
Our room at the Nh\u00e0 ngh\u1ec9 Huy\u1ec7n Tu\u1ea7n<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Fridge<\/picture>
Comes with a fridge and a few windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bathroom\"<\/picture>
As well as a bathroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Vietnamese<\/picture>
Food next door was really good<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Happy<\/picture>
As you can see: If the Greek is happy with the food he looks like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hotel<\/picture>
The lobby of our hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Parking\"<\/picture>
Looks more like a parking lot – not like a hotel lobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s drive:
We drove 148 kilometers in 4 hours, 50 minutes, with gas and food stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n