#river folk

[peikonlainen]

23# The river folk

[chronivore]

[chronivore]

River-Folk

River-Folk

The River-Folk, River-Halflings or Gladden-Stoors, were a number of clans descending from the Stoors. They lived in the Loeg Ningloron, alon

[trashyeggroll]

lovin’ this crew at the farmer’s market

[plantsandbirdsandrocksand-things]

Let me just do an experiment

So me and one of my friends have been arguing over Lord of the rings for ages now so, like if Gollum was a hobbit, reblog if he was a river folk

I'm curious

[rock-and-roll-suicidee]

when you just wanna go to the river but it's been storming for a month 😭😭

[a-yorkshireman-abroad]

Mekong Delta

Southwest of Saigon, the Mekong Delta is the fertile farming heartland of Vietnam. It's very lush and produces about 40% of all the food eaten in Vietnam. From Saigon I took a $35, 2 day, 1 night tour - which I felt was a bit of a bargain. It was probably my least favourite couple of days on my travels thus far. Mainly as it's the first time I've felt as a bit of an outcast as a solo traveler. My tour group contained an older Chinese couple, 4 German students, a pair of guys from the Netherlands (who I believe are the most boring people I've ever met), a totally engrossed with each other Spanish couple wearing conical hats, an older German couple and yours truly. No one was particularly friendly so for the most part my customary regular off the cuff witticisms about my immediate environment were totally wasted. The tour itself started with a 4 hour drive into the Mekong Delta before embarking onto a boat that took us to some island or other. The guide then shuttled us to the following places over the next 2 days. My main issue with this time (as I will hopefully demonstrate), is that we were constantly sold to from dusk till dawn. Rice noodle factory - rice noodles available for purchase. 'Traditional' honey tea demonstration - various honey related products available Coconut sweet shop - sold cocounut sweets and soap Traditional music - tips please! Rice storage place - I believe one could buy some rice if one was so inclined Mekong river floating market - a range of products available as I'm sure you can imagine To be fair I should have expected it based upon the price. But hey you live and learn. We also floated down the river, where as THE solo traveller I went with the guide. A highlight of the trip was starting at the homestay in the Mekong Delta on the middle night. Although 'Professional' homestay might have been more apt. The establishment had about 10 riverside rooms were guests (tourists) would reside. I was the only member of my tour group who had elected to stay at a homestay, everyone else chose a hotel, but there were 10 other people from another tour (where would you believe it everyone else was travelling as a couple). They were however much friendlier. We firstly started off by 'helping' the family assemble the spring rolls (mine were wonky) and by frying them. Having judged our relative strengths, the family then cooked the rest of the food, a highlight being a delicious fish. Burping quietly and contentedly, the 10 of us then enjoyed drinking rice wine till the wee hours. Part of the problem with the tour, is that it was the most mainstream tourism I'd tried thus far, as opposed to a backpacker haven. Either way I was delighted to get back to Saigon and to book my onwards journey to Dalat.

[wolfbxxch]

So many feels.