Bill Baileys Vietnam - Season 1 Episode 05- SA Pa
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00:00in my circuitous route to enlightenment I find myself this time in herbal hot
00:09water in a stranger's house in Vietnam in a barrel
00:16when I take a bit of tap on it just draw off a pint of Bill Bailey's bath flog it five pound a pint yeah
00:30that's Bill Bailey's bath water this time I'm in the mountains of Sapa
00:39Vietnam of course it's a place of tea plantations traffic temples but then it's something else
00:53entirely come with me on an unusual unfiltered I'm soaked look at me trousers unforgettable
01:05adventure my mind's off on a whole bunch of other tangents I'm thinking about a sandwich I had in
01:141982 as this nation commemorates 50 years since the end of the war so it's safe right I'll explore this
01:21fertile land ask the big questions am I in the right place embrace new experiences even my own
01:29future problem you are smart and tested is there any you know good news navigate tight spaces
01:37I'm not entirely sure I'm gonna get out make some new friends separated at birth this is a voyage of
01:45discovery of strange encounters this is your whole life in a plant and kindred spirits
01:50an enchanted stroll through one of the most fascinating places on earth welcome to Bill
01:57Bailey's Vietnam adventure
01:59Sapa the rooftop of Vietnam this little town is perched high up in the Huang Lian mountains
02:23the south eastern tip of the Himalayas just a stone's throw from the Chinese border
02:28it's in beautiful surroundings rice terraces wrapped around steep hills clouds languidly drifting through
02:38the valley it's a lovely spot where time seems to slow and the roads are decidedly rural
02:46but Sapa it's not just about the views here is home to a patchwork of local cultures each with their
02:54own language dress and traditions so over the next few days I'll be trekking in these hills staying in
03:01home stays tasting the local food trying to get a sense of what life is really like here in this remote
03:08stunning quarter of Vietnam while trying to avoid the potholes
03:15if I was to say to you that I was lured to Vietnam's idyllic north with the promise of the best bath a
03:26person can have would you believe me you would all right great hello hi I am Bill
03:32nice to miss you I'm Mei Chan Mei Chan is of the Red Tsao hill tribe they originated from China coming here from
03:42the 13th century and what's quite amazing given the turbulent history and rapid development of Vietnam is that hill tribes still exist at all
03:50so I went to see a priest in Hanoi and he said I need to take care of myself better I see so I'm interested in the fact that you collect herbs and plants for medicine and for remedies
04:08yeah we use a plant around our village for our health problem I show you the room yes I can put the bag in the room
04:17okay come in please may has generously opened her house to me as a homestay for the next few days I will live as they do in the mountains no
04:27fancy room service or air con for me and I'm happy as a lark may and her mother-in-law are taking me foraging
04:36for herbs bath herbs to be exact 1500 meters above sea level so now we are going to the forest to pick
04:45some plants and then we come back and I show you how it's won't be the herbal bath for you to heal a
04:50little bit your body get better no flu no curse anymore all right so you wear this one like like us like a
04:57backpack yes local backpack yes oh there we go it's okay for you I think so okay okay now we go this
05:07way okay the operative word when talking about hill tribes is hill everything is a climb it's not quite
05:15mountain goat territory but for a flat-footed Englishman like me every step is fraught
05:21oh you okay hold on what's going on some challenge okay okay it's a bit slippery yeah
05:36I nearly went yeah we need to save me thanks I thought I'd bought the right shoes but clearly not
05:45okay okay I'm normally very sure-footed I'm actually a Capricorn you know I'm a goat that's my star sign
05:55the goat is normally very short-footed but I don't know what happened there I slipped in a quite
06:03alarming and undignified way how far is it to the forest we need to walk maybe three kilometer more
06:12okay okay okay all right okay I'm up for it let's go be careful three kilometers I've never worked so
06:24hard for a bath in my life but may assures me it's well worth the effort so lead on I say your mother-in-law
06:31spotted something that we might come out yes she sees some plant here that's we can collect for the bath
06:38right we call reds our hobo bath because only our people we have the knowledge about the plant and we have
06:45been using this one for many many generations you know what was the use for is it for health reasons the
06:55hobo bath is special for healing our body for relaxing our muscle relaxing our skin relaxing our mind so we
07:03learn from mother the knowledge path from the mother to daughter she know like around more than 200
07:08different plants and she knows the recipe to combine the plant together but to me I know only even not
07:14not even 100 so we need to learn a lot from the old generation all right so what's what is this is
07:21uh having a snack in the forest yes all right what is that shoot of something you can eat the young
07:31one like this we can cook or we can eat like this yeah so when we go to forest we hungry or something
07:36we know what we can eat so just call it tastes like ginger it's nice quite a little bit sweet lovely yeah
07:46okay great here we are high in the remote mountains of North Vietnam plucking leaves from the forest
07:53prepping for a bath this could be the best day ever you try slowly perfect travel is a funny thing we can
08:03go to extraordinary places and take a million selfies but the simple wonder of eating a fresh ginger root in
08:08the forest stay with me for a long time as will be aftertaste you have this life here you're in the
08:20mountains and growing in food and being in this beautiful spot you know some people might envy you
08:27you know some people might think this is a lovely life this is a lovely way to live yeah but it's it's hard
08:34though it's hard work yes yes I think the people living around here we have good health and we work
08:41a lot people are more happy than compared to a lot of people who live in the city maybe when you work
08:47with the computer or something in the city and for the company you always share food you need to
08:52find a solution for a lot of things yeah we have no money but we are more happy I think I think may
09:01voices something that in Western society we often aspire to but struggle to achieve the idea of being
09:07surrounded by simple stuff like mountains and fresh air creating a kind of contentment a yearning that
09:15material wealth can't fulfill I'm just taking a moment to take in this view actually yeah it's just quite
09:24beautiful
09:39look I know what you're thinking what herbs and leaves were collected bill what makes the perfect bath bomb
09:49may wouldn't reveal her secrets so neither will I whoops sorry so I'm quite excited about this a couple
10:06of new experiences for me which I'm always up for first time having a bath in a barrel and also just first
10:15time in a barrel and I've got to say I've never got into a bath made from herbs that I've just collected
10:23in a forest that is another there's three firsts brilliant a trifecta of new experiences but for now
10:33if you'd like to give me a modicum of privacy and I will immerse myself in holistic herbs
10:40those of you of a sensitive disposition might wish to look away now
10:52so this barrel aged bill bailey this is how you make a single malt bill bailey put one in a barrel
11:06leave him there for 12 years absolutely vintage and it is actually lovely it's very lovely I gotta say
11:18I'm not entirely sure I'm going to get out but that's not my concern at the moment I've got to
11:27be here for 20 minutes I could be just carried in a barrel everywhere oh that would be so great yeah
11:33bill bailey's coming but he insists on being carted in a barrel I see and I just hold court somewhere yes
11:40approach the barrel you have a question for me right okay and then I'd answer questions
11:50sign photographs and then I go leave me I tire of your company leave me to the barrel leave me and to
11:59my barrel it's barrel time I want some me time in my barrel I honestly thought this barrel would be a
12:09little bit bigger bathed refreshed and thankfully dressed and there on the breeze I can hear music
12:23the soundtrack for the simple life
12:27people have been seeking enlightenment here for thousands of years and the go-to for any modern
12:37guru is Mount fancy the tallest peak in Indochina a place of reverence and one that I must climb but
12:47it's a three-day trek to the top well it was because in 2016 they installed a cable car for lazy pilgrims like
12:54me it's pretty wild I mean it's amazing rice terraces all up and down the valley forests ridges
13:03mountains disappearing up into the clouds it's absolutely spectacular but there it is again the music on the
13:18breeze that's nice is that coming out the speakers well in case you get in case you get bored of the view
13:32welcome to the Sun world cable car disco
13:36I love this one
13:41all right
13:50is there any way of turning it off
13:54no apparently not
13:57well would you
13:59the yoga retreat section of the ride
14:06be at one with the cable car
14:11embrace
14:12the altitude
14:14let go of earthly thoughts
14:16elevate your mind to a higher plane of consciousness
14:19it's out thank you thank you
14:30oh
14:34it's chilly up here
14:37I suppose we are over 3000 meters up top of the tallest mountain in Indochina so yeah
14:44amazing
14:46amazing feat of engineering you're saying it's in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest
14:52free cable cable car anywhere in the world it's a bill fun fact
14:57so it's a sign here that's the total of meters 3143 meters so fancy pan summit this way
15:07down the stairs
15:11as it happens the down part of the climb was a cruel trick there's still a few hundred steps to go and a carefully worded message from the surgeon general
15:24what
15:31all right so this morning you might experience altitude sickness shortness of breath because the oxygen levels are quite thin
15:43yeah
15:50let's go
15:52Vietnam for many visitors could be remembered for a variety of extraordinary things
15:56but for me ice cream seems to be a recurring theme
16:00thank you
16:02summit ice cream
16:05oh
16:06it's a lot smaller inside
16:12here we go
16:14on the summit there's a steel pyramid which was installed by Soviet engineers in 1985
16:20and er
16:21this is a pretty accurate scale model of it in ice cream form
16:25cheers
16:27oh
16:29it's good
16:33oh
16:35oh
16:37clears your head
16:39gets your lungs working
16:41not quite there yet but i'm sure there'll be another ice cream shop before the summit
16:48more stairs more music
16:54i'm sure i've heard that in every spa i've ever been in
16:58well i've been in that many spars
17:00i've been in many many spars
17:07this kind of music
17:12you hear it everywhere
17:16makes you feel like sleeping
17:21but when you hear it
17:26upper mountain top
17:28it makes the spirit start weeping
17:34oh
17:36oh
17:38oh
17:39oh
17:40oh
17:41oh
17:42oh
17:43i wish
17:44i had a cheesy ice cream
17:47right
17:48not far now
17:53what's that
17:55it's up here i think
17:57it's just up there
17:59thank you
18:00yeah just through there
18:01i must look like a guide
18:03honestly
18:06it's one of the great benefits of getting older
18:08people just defer to you like you seem to know what you're on about
18:11i reckon i could stand in most public buildings in the world and just go yes true there
18:16people would just think i was staff through here just my party
18:23meters from the summit and barely discernible in the clouds a lovely treat
18:28not more ice cream but a temple and what a temple it is
18:33i do feel a little closer to god up here in the heavens
18:36though my thoughts go out to the monks who built this place
18:39i'm guessing they didn't have the advantage of a cable car
18:42in the swirling mist with limited oxygen pumping to my brain
18:46it's truly spiritual
18:48wow
18:49i did not expect this at the top of the mountain this is extraordinary
19:03final push one step after another knowing at the top otherworldly riches will surely be gained
19:18there's an ice cream shop
19:33yes
19:35oh what finish
19:40oh
19:42oh
19:44but there is also
19:47this
19:50that is pretty spectacular
20:04the rooftop of indochina
20:07it's an extraordinary view
20:12amazing sight of peaks
20:17mountains disappearing off into the clouds
20:20and that temple was quite something i mean i just
20:23did not expect that
20:25and i guess that's a reminder of also what this place is
20:29it's not just
20:31tourist attraction and natural wonder it's actually a place of prayer
20:36a place of worship
20:38so it kind of lends it another spiritual element to it
20:42which is
20:43very lovely
20:45for every spiritual mount fancypan
20:48there is an accompanying not so spiritual tourist hub at the base
20:52in this case the mountain city of sapa
21:03this city has a history that needs to be appreciated
21:06so sit back while i bring you the abridged builds notes version
21:11sappers a buzzing energetic regional town
21:16skateboarders young couples taking instagram ready snaps at sunset
21:23restaurants and bars opening up for business
21:26it's got real energy to it
21:30but it wasn't always like this
21:33but it wasn't always like this
21:34in the 19th century this place
21:36subject to a lot of armed raiders coming over the border from china
21:40trying to control the trade on the red river
21:42and that was extremely valuable sea salt from vietnam
21:46opium from yunnan province in china
21:48fabrics manufactured goods all highly profitable
21:51so it was
21:54of huge strategic importance
21:56and thus fought over many times
21:58the place was
21:59sacked
22:00burnt down rebuilt
22:02attacked again
22:03rebuilt
22:04and this went on
22:06for years
22:07until
22:08the end of the 19th century
22:10when the french started to take over control
22:13and from that point on was hugely popular as a cool mountain retreat
22:19then all this change after the second world war
22:22the viet min invaded the french were driven out
22:26and as a kind of a parting shot
22:29in 1952 french headquarters ordered the aerial bombardment of sapper
22:36and the place
22:37was absolutely battered
22:39the government's mansion was destroyed the villas even the sanatorium was all gone
22:44people abandoned the city
22:47and it was left empty
22:50for about a decade
22:52in the sixties
22:54people started to venture back
22:56still it wasn't really a tourist destination
22:59that only started
23:00in the 1990s
23:01people started to come here
23:03became a very popular center to go
23:05trekking there's some fantastic mountain trails
23:07trekking through the rice terraces
23:09visits to the local villages of the
23:11Hmong and Tsao communities
23:13but it wasn't until 2016
23:16with the opening of the cable car up Mount Fanzipan
23:19that things really took off
23:21and now the place is a mecca for tourists
23:25for tourists
23:26and this has brought a huge amount of
23:28money into the local economy
23:30local communities are offering
23:32trips around the rice terraces
23:35homestays in the valley
23:38so
23:39sapper in the last 75 years
23:42has had quite the turnaround
23:43from bombed out ruin
23:45to what it is today
23:46an alpine boomtown
23:48history lesson done
23:51and now
23:52what I call a postcard moment
23:54hi
23:55I just need
23:56um
23:57stamps
23:58to go to
23:59uh
24:00England
24:01oh
24:02all right
24:03great
24:04I mean this has become my traditional thing
24:10I always send postcards
24:11I think it's a lovely thing to do
24:13you know
24:14increasingly these days
24:16I'm looked on as some sort of a relic
24:18people look at me
24:19people look at me
24:20why don't you just send an email
24:21take a picture
24:22whatsapp
24:23I'm like no
24:24it's not the
24:25it's not the same
24:26there's a certain ritual that you have to go through
24:28you have to go and choose a postcard
24:30then you have to write the postcard
24:34and it's quite good
24:36it's a good mental exercise
24:38trying to write in a succinct way
24:41pricing what you've done
24:43put in a couple of funny lines and then bring it to a conclusion
24:48all on a postcard
24:49that's quite a skill
24:50then you've got to find the address
24:52then you've got to go somewhere and get a stamp
24:54you've got to apply the stamp
24:56then you've got to go and post it
24:57I mean it's a bit of a palaver
24:59I'll admit
25:00but there's something lovely about receiving a postcard
25:02as opposed to just a bit of data
25:05there doesn't seem to be much glue on the back of it
25:08I think it's been licked off
25:09you've got something to stick it on with
25:11blimey
25:12a glue gun
25:13I did not expect that
25:16it's becoming increasingly difficult I have to say
25:20but you know
25:21I'm cussed like that
25:24but at the moment we're finding it quite tricky to
25:27stick this stamp to the postcard
25:29because it doesn't have any glue on the back of it
25:31but a glue gun is being procured
25:38this is what I mean about a palaver
25:40this is ridiculous palaver
25:42oh what's this
25:47ah
25:48perfect
25:49this is
25:50some sort of glue
25:52is this
25:53oh you're right
25:54to the back of the stamp
25:56right there we go
25:57okay
25:59come on
26:00where do I post this
26:02to Vietnam post
26:04Vietnam post
26:05up there
26:06okay
26:07come on
26:08what's that
26:09nothing
26:10it's open in the morning
26:11morning
26:12all right
26:13it's all right
26:14fine
26:15perhaps I'll just take a picture of it
26:16and just send them that
26:17probably quicker
26:19I'm starting to think that my purpose
26:35perhaps my obsession here in these mountains
26:38could be finding the source of that music
26:43but first a crash course in agriculture
26:48Sapa's rich fertile land has sustained these hill tribes for centuries
26:54in flooded fields and terraces like these
26:58one of the great agricultural revolutions of human history took root
27:04rice
27:06a humble grain but the founder of whole civilizations
27:10and none of this would have been achievable without a unique partnership between human
27:16and water buffalo
27:17in fact they're still revered throughout Asia
27:20mighty beasts of burden who helped civilizations tame the land and thrive
27:26this one truly representative of his heroic species is called Joe
27:31they've all got personalities then
27:34yeah different ones
27:35some of them is like very friendly they want you to write it down
27:39but some of them
27:41no don't touch me
27:42I wonder though how did you know
27:44you know when you charge something like around here
27:47they will feel oh I feel good
27:49around the back of the tail
27:50he will lay it down for you
27:51oh
27:52at the beginning you don't know about him
27:54if you charge the hair
27:56they come making like
27:58what do you want to do to my horn or something
28:00yeah get off
28:01yeah yeah
28:02he's
28:03he's tickling his
28:05with a stick
28:06no wonder he's so placid
28:10hello
28:11scratching his ass with a stick
28:15yeah
28:16it's not a bad deal is it
28:17I mean you work my land and help carve out an agrarian civilization
28:21and I'll give you a little scratch in the nether reasons
28:24you'd have to know that they were very amenable to that
28:32yeah
28:33I mean if someone who was doing this to me I'd get my undivided attention as well
28:42didn't think I'd be scratching a buffalo today but
28:45always up for something new
28:47my new best friend buffalo whisperer Lynn has invited me to her village to learn more about hill tribe lifestyle
28:57and one of the big industries around here is indigo dyeing turning white things blue using plant dye
29:04I read about that indigo the plant can be used as a cure for baldness
29:12mmm
29:14you know
29:15yeah
29:16you can actually rub it on your head and it will help to grow your hair
29:20really
29:21apparently
29:22maybe something new for me to learn
29:23if you can dry some maybe I'll just rub it on the scalp and let you know how I get on
29:27and natural it's organic
29:29it's totally organic
29:30it's natural
29:31yeah exactly
29:32sure
29:33perhaps my heart will go sprouting a whole head of hair
29:35but it'd be blue though
29:36yes
29:37you'd be able to have a queue of bald men coming round here going
29:40yeah
29:41I've heard there's a cure for baldness
29:42yeah
29:43yeah
29:44I should urge you not to try the indigo to the noggin trick at home
29:49what indigo is good for is batik as Lynn's family are keen to demonstrate
29:54the ancient craft of creating patterns on fabric using wax and then dyeing the fabric
30:00I saw a butterfly in your garden
30:03yeah
30:04I took a picture of it
30:05okay
30:06and then I went and drew it
30:08yeah
30:09do you think that would work?
30:10yeah
30:11do you think that would work?
30:13ah
30:14you've already got one
30:15yeah
30:16alright
30:17okay I'm copying you then
30:18yeah
30:21you've been doing this
30:22this one is for a long time
30:24for years and years
30:25yeah
30:26and also this is we most usually is more for elderly people
30:29yeah
30:30but nowadays the younger generation now they don't really made it
30:34so
30:35sometime I still teaching our children
30:38learning how to make
30:40when they have a day off
30:42yes when they're not at school
30:43yeah
30:44so I just try to teach them
30:45yeah
30:46so they will know that yes this is our traditional
30:49and we need to keep it in the future as well
30:52Nana what do you what do you think of my design?
30:56I'm so beautiful
30:58oh
30:59thanks
31:00is there anything else I should put on there do you think?
31:03what would you put on?
31:04do I need to change it or put something else on?
31:08happy night
31:10happy night
31:12you can draw like a flower
31:14some more flowers yeah that's a good idea
31:16I thought I was thinking of that as well
31:18okay
31:19I'll do a bigger flower here
31:21oh
31:23looks nice
31:24there we go
31:25art class
31:26batik class
31:27show your work
31:28yes
31:29and now we're going to bring it to the indigo
31:32okay
31:33to dye
31:34alright
31:35and then let's see how it looks after this
31:37great
31:38here we go
31:39this is the indigo
31:40we put a plant inside here
31:42for three days
31:43hmm
31:44so why do you like to dye your clothes?
31:46is it just because you love the colour?
31:48for our traditional
31:49we believe that black is a special colours
31:53because I mean like we are working on the farm every day
31:57so we choose black just in case something you know something later in there then we won't see that
32:03right so it's kind of a practical colour really
32:05yes
32:06and in the village you know for people when I choose a wife
32:10they choose the person that the colour of the clothes the more stuck
32:15really?
32:16yes
32:17if you have a nice clothes it means you have a good heart
32:20you have a patient to making all your clothes better
32:23yes
32:24you're skillful
32:25yes you're skillful
32:26and you're a patient
32:27and you spend a lot of time on it
32:28yeah
32:29you care about these things
32:30yes
32:31skills
32:32that's right
32:33you're you know a very sort of careful
32:34yeah
32:35considerate person
32:36yes
32:37yes
32:38I'm excited to see what it looks like now
32:43really good huh
32:48yeah
32:50there we go
32:52it's my first attempt at indigo dyeing I've got to say I'm pretty chuffed with it
32:56right
32:57I think it's come out alright
32:58so satisfying
33:01seeing a design just appear before your eyes
33:05such a simple process
33:07that really hasn't changed in hundreds of years
33:11and of course fewer and fewer people were doing it
33:14but what was lovely to see were
33:16Lin's daughter
33:17and niece
33:18getting involved
33:20having fun with it
33:21and
33:22keeping these skills alive
33:25that have been
33:26passed down through the family
33:28for generations
33:30my time in the mountains is coming to an end
33:48so I've given myself a quest
33:50a search for northern Vietnam's signature music
33:54here in the mountains skirting the Chinese border
33:57they're inhabited by hill tribes like the Hmong, Zoha and Tei people
34:02cultures that have persisted despite centuries of colonization and war
34:08one of the instruments that the Hmong are famous for is the kin
34:13quite a haunting sound which I imagine echoes out across the hills
34:20and I'm here
34:21to meet one of the last four players of the instrument in this community
34:29High above me is the Sa Seng village
34:31where their language is closer to Cantonese than Vietnamese
34:35and what better way to end a quest than climb another mountain
34:39but hark
34:40what is that sound?
34:42here he is
34:47the ancient master of the ken
34:49a man who's lived through wars and upheaval
34:52a bridge between past and present
34:54by keeping this unique music alive
34:57an end
34:58aaa
35:02that's me
35:06ah
35:07thanks
35:08for my
35:12i see you
35:13ok
35:16and
35:29Can I have a look?
35:30OK, thank you.
35:32So, blow?
35:34Yeah.
35:38Yes!
35:42Right on that, right on that.
35:44How's that?
35:52I'm getting it.
35:55My overextended blow is my first mistake when playing the ken.
35:59It's a bit like a harmonica.
36:01You create the music by breathing in and out,
36:04so you can play continuously.
36:06So you have to breathe in and then out.
36:08It's a technique that requires years of practice,
36:16but under the master's watchful tuition,
36:19I reckon I might be able to get a tune out of it.
36:29It's a beautiful instrument.
36:31Sounds lovely.
36:33It's very sort of evocative.
36:36It's unlike anything I've ever seen or played before.
36:40I mean, obviously, I don't speak Vietnamese,
36:42so I'm having to relay questions to his granddaughter,
36:45who speaks a little bit of English,
36:48but her grandfather, he only speaks Hmong,
36:51so I'm going to have to translate from English into Vietnamese
36:54and Vietnamese into Hmong,
36:55so it's a little difficult to have a conversation.
37:01but he is still able to demonstrate to me how to play it,
37:06where the fingers go in the holes, the breathing.
37:12This is just my little piano on GarageBand on my phone.
37:16It's just, it's wonderful, you know,
37:32that's what music will do.
37:34It bypasses not one but two other languages
37:37and allows us to communicate.
37:42Thank you so much.
37:44I have another quest, a little less highbrow, in fact,
37:48and that is,
37:50how low can a stool go
37:52for an ungainly Westerner with flexibility issues?
37:56And I think I have a winner.
38:01There you go, I found the smallest stool in Vietnam.
38:04I thought the little red stools were low.
38:13But this, this isn't even lower than that.
38:18Right, that's it.
38:32That's it.
38:33That is officially the lowest stool
38:35in Vietnam.
38:38And the lowest, certainly the lowest one I've ever sat on.
38:41It's not unpleasant.
38:43I can cross my legs under it.
38:44But, Tyler, I don't know.
38:49Getting up is going to be a challenge.
38:51That's all I'm going to say.
38:58It's all right.
38:59I'm good.
39:00I see you.
39:05Are you sure about this?
39:06OK.
39:10Hang on.
39:12Hey, there we go.
39:13Humble in height, heroic in spirit,
39:17it seems the further north I venture,
39:18the tinier these thrones become.
39:21This is a dining table in a doll's house, surely.
39:25This can't be human.
39:28OK.
39:29Oh, wait a minute.
39:35Just when you think you've found the smallest stool,
39:38there's one smaller.
39:39Hang on, I just want to show you a comparison.
39:45Look at this.
39:47It's positively lofty.
39:53I'm up for it.
39:53I'm up for the stool challenge.
40:00Yeah.
40:02I'm down.
40:02My Vietnam mountain education is nearly complete.
40:14I've climbed mountains,
40:15I've bathed in barrels,
40:17played ancient instruments,
40:18and sat and contemplated my very existence.
40:22But what's left of my bingo card,
40:25dance.
40:26So, La, can you tell me about this traditional dance?
40:37One, two, three.
40:39OK.
40:41One, two, three.
40:43One, two, three.
40:45OK.
40:45OK.
40:46You get one step wrong,
40:47your ankles are goners.
40:48One, two, three.
40:52One, two, three.
40:54One, two, three.
40:55All right.
40:56Yeah.
40:56OK.
40:58That seemed to be fairly straightforward.
41:02At that pace, fairly easy.
41:08Yeah.
41:09Intrigued to know
41:10what happens when it starts to speed up a bit.
41:13Put on some, like, you know,
41:15I don't know what you put on.
41:16Miley Cyrus?
41:17Slipknot?
41:17I don't know.
41:31Whoa!
41:44I'm fully invested.
41:47It's hard.
41:56I reckon I've got one more speed in me.
42:01That's it.
42:01Yes, come on.
42:14Let's do it.
42:15Time to pick up the pace.
42:34The faster the music,
42:36the trickier it gets.
42:38Yeah, that's it.
42:40Yeah, that's it.
42:51Come on.
42:52Yeah.
42:52High five, ten.
42:53High ten.
42:54Very good.
42:55Very good.
42:55Well done, guys.
42:57Very good.
42:58Oh, you see?
43:02Still got it.
43:16Sapa has left a deep impression on me.
43:19And that's not just because of the spectacular landscapes.
43:23I'm really struck by the resilience of the people here.
43:26Many of them have found a way to balance keeping their culture and traditions alive while still making a living.
43:33And that could be taking tourists for walks through the rice terraces, teaching them about traditional handicrafts or remedies, drawing on this deep well of accumulated knowledge.
43:46They found a way to support their families, and they're incredibly resourceful and genius, hardworking, creative people.
43:56The people here are doing what their families have done for generations.
44:01That is finding a way to adapt, finding a way to survive.
44:16Next time on Bill Bailey's Vietnam.
44:19This place is just stunningly impressive.
44:22What is the altitude?
44:23I'm getting slightly trippy.
44:25It's just like a mirror here today.
44:26I can twirl it.
44:27Go!
44:28Get!
44:28Mot!
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44:30Ba!
44:31Zou!
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