In the course of the day, we drank Longan honey tea, learned how coconut candy is made, enjoyed local fruits - jackfruit, longan, dragonfruit, and sapoche - and listened to some local music. All broken up into nice tourist-sized bites, of course, so that nobody was in any danger of feeling overwhelmed by new information and impressions.
In the late afternoon, after two more hours in a bus and ten long minutes on the back of a motorcycle, we arrived at the place where we would spend the night. Advertised as a "homestay," it really was more of a small family-run guesthouse, located directly next to the river.
Before dinner, we got to participate in the cooking for a little bit: we were allowed to make spring rolls out of thin rice wafers and a filling of beans and tapioca (I think). This is the result of our combined effort, just before everything went into the frying pan:
Like so much food in Vietnam, the spring rolls were simply delicious!
