2005 or earlier, I took my wife and two very young sons with me on a business trip to Vietnam then a side trip to a village a few hours drive from Hanoi and spent a few days lived native like sleeping on straw mats in stilted huts. There were a fair number of people from Europe mostly French but zero English speakers. We were on our own just wandered around until scheduled pick up in the morning.
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Olympus E-500 with kit lens (Beautiful CCD Kodak sensor but above iso 200 was not great and zoom too slow)
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