Travel: Sapa | Vietnam

Farmers harvest rice on a mountainside in Sapa, Vietnam. 

This is quite an old picture. I still remember the song playing on my headphones as the overnight train arrived at its northern terminus and whenever I listen to it I can see before me, in vivid relief, the passing valleys and farmlands, and I can feel the sway and rumble of the car on the tracks, and smell the grassy dew mixed with smoke and buffalo dung all hanging in the imperfect air. 

We're lucky that some things live within us for a very long time.