Travel & Places

A Homestay in the Highlands

A traveller stays with a local family in a village among the rice fields.

B29 min

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1The bus dropped us at a dusty crossroads, and Mai's father walked us up to the village.

2Their wooden house stood on tall stilts above a sea of green rice.

3We slept on thin mattresses behind a curtain, listening to frogs in the fields.

4In the morning, Mai's mother taught us to cook rice over an open fire.

5I burned the first pot completely, and the whole family laughed kindly at me.

6After breakfast we helped plant seedlings, sinking ankle deep into the warm mud.

7The children showed us how to catch small fish with nothing but our hands.

8Nobody in the village spoke English, yet we understood each other surprisingly well.

9When we left, Mai's grandmother pressed a woven bracelet into my hand.

10I arrived as a tourist and left feeling something closer to family.

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