Exciting day today. Rode bicycles through the beautiful countryside for about 1.5 hours, along wet gravel roads, past massive potholes filled with water, and in some sections large gravel stones and rocks which created a full body massage effect at the same time as teeth-chattering! Two of the party went by golf-cart, and Judy (fortunately not a bicycle or she would have ended up in a deep mud-puddle) rode an electric bike which she managed very well except for crossing a six-lane busy road in the city with no lights, no traffic controls, several roads coming into the one location, and little expertise in control. Heart in mouth and eyes shut, we all came out the other side of the city intersections unscathed.
The rural countryside was a delight - paddy fields, working buffalo, hens, lotus fields, fish farms, and men making the long bamboo rafts used on the river for tourist trips. At our destination of a small village, we had a "famer's lunch" at the local farmers' co-operative where they and their families worked and cooked local produce. The food was fresh, delicious, and contained very little in the way of sauces because the freshness of the food did not warrant additional flavours.
Speaking of food, everything we have eaten has been delicious and most unlike Chinese food as we know it in Australia. But things we have seen on menus (and not eaten) include piegs' ears, frog stew, duck's tongues, pork stomach, fish head, pig's feet, and would you believe pig's penis!
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