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Crossing the river


The Dzay Minority people living in Ta Van Tribe — 15km South East of Sa Pa Town — always dress neatly and beautifully, 24/7, seven days a week, all year round. When I first arrived, I mistook that they dressed for some traditional ceremony, and I was not too interested in any specific set-up. After witnessing the old ladies picking up sweet potatoes with the same colorful clothes on, I was convinced that this tribe has higher education and condition of live.

Their tribal residential area is on one side while their terraced fields are on the other side of the little Muong Hoa Ho River. Whether they go to work on the farm or to the shopping at Sa Pa town, they have to cross the river at the shallow shortcut, as these girls are on their way home.


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