Sunday, 31 October 2010
Serendipity 101
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/travel/31vietnam-ha-giang.html?src=me&ref=general
This is where I was from Sunday-Wednesday. Where I got bitten by bed bugs and drank corn whiskey and walked with the water buffalo. Unfortunately, my work didn't take me north toward the Chinese border and this world-famous road, but what I saw around Ha Giang was beautiful and made me long for a bike (and a better camera). Photos to follow.
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I got near to the Chinese border too, on a couple of occasions. The Hmong women I met there made a great impression on me. Recently I read "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down", about a little girl with epilepsy, and how that is interpreted by her Hmong parents, illiterate and dispossessed immigrants in small-town California, but carrying with them a rich system of belief; and the medical world that attempts to help, blindly and with disastrous effect. The book is journalism at its best, and is now assigned reading for med students.
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