Front Steps

These are what you have to climb up to get into a Tay stilt house in northern Vietnam. I had problems climbing up in full daylight. Can't imagine what it's like to come down in the dark, e.g. if you need to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. [NOTE: House and steps photographed on the grounds of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi (see Museé d'Ethnographie du Vietnam)].