So Lisa found yellow ones too!
We took the students to "silk village." We visited a family that made silk. Notice the spinning wheel made out of an old bicycle wheel. The silk is yellow because the worms were fed a certain leaf that made their silk this color.
Lisa and piles of raw white silk thread.
Silk worms hard at work, eating leaves.
Raw silk cacoons which are boiled and then spun into tread. This thread has been dyed purple.
The guy that silently rowed us to perfume pagoda, about one hour up a river that looked like King Kong territory.
Some of our students after getting off the boat and walking about 10 minutes. In the foreground is one of our students and her Vietnamese host sister that came along for the day. When we take day trips, it is common for the students to bring along a host brother or sister.
Whenever I post pictures to the blog they come up in reverse order! So, here we are arriving at the Perfume Pagoda, a temple in a cave. We walked up several thousand stone steps to get here. Pretty cool. It was great to get out of the city!
On the way up to the pagoda/cave.
A man carrying firewood down the stone path.
At another temple. Lisa loves these carved wooden fish. It is actually hollow and therefore a bell/musical instrument.
We took the students to "silk village." We visited a family that made silk. Notice the spinning wheel made out of an old bicycle wheel. The silk is yellow because the worms were fed a certain leaf that made their silk this color.
Lisa and piles of raw white silk thread.
Silk worms hard at work, eating leaves.
Raw silk cacoons which are boiled and then spun into tread. This thread has been dyed purple.
The guy that silently rowed us to perfume pagoda, about one hour up a river that looked like King Kong territory.
Some of our students after getting off the boat and walking about 10 minutes. In the foreground is one of our students and her Vietnamese host sister that came along for the day. When we take day trips, it is common for the students to bring along a host brother or sister.
Whenever I post pictures to the blog they come up in reverse order! So, here we are arriving at the Perfume Pagoda, a temple in a cave. We walked up several thousand stone steps to get here. Pretty cool. It was great to get out of the city!
On the way up to the pagoda/cave.
A man carrying firewood down the stone path.
At another temple. Lisa loves these carved wooden fish. It is actually hollow and therefore a bell/musical instrument.
People checking their fish traps.
Striking mountains. Sort of like the Green Mountains...sort of.
Happy Halloween Mr. Godfrey! What are you dressing up as this year?
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