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Coming to Muong Long, visitors can glimpse white plum blossom gardens with trails running around children chattering on their way home from school. Photo: Trung Kien |
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Simple, rustic life flows smoothly under the Mong people's houses. Photo: Cao Dong |
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A spinning top "playground" right under the porch. Photo: Cao Dong |
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The boy was playing top-top enthusiastically. This is a familiar game of Mong children. Photo: Cao Dong |
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On the wet road with rain and early morning dew, a group of children were excited with the balloons that a volunteer group stopped by to give away. Photo: Trung Kien |
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Mong children learn to help their parents with housework from a very early age. This child comes home from school to prepare the fire. Photo: Trung Ha |
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A 5-year-old boy is helping his grandmother put corn into the mortar to grind. Photo: Hai Vuong |
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The children smiled and posed for photos with tourists. Photo: Trung Ha |
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The children grew up innocently and very healthy, despite the harsh cold of this land in winter. Photo: Hai Vuong |
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The image of mothers carrying their children on their backs to do everything, including going to the market to trade, is very familiar here. Photo: Trung Kien |
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Mong children grow up on their mothers' backs, following their footsteps as they climb steep slopes and live a difficult life halfway up the mountain. Photo: Trung Kien |
Cao Dong - Trung Kien - Trung Ha - Hai Vuong