| In this heartland of rice paddies and small towns, family means a lot and sympathy for the recently bereaved even more. |
| Most of the route stretches through rolling green hills and intervening rice paddies underlain with rich red lateritic soils. |
| Another larger minnow, Luciosoma bleekeri, has Lao names which allude to its being found in rice paddies. |
| Several colossal, yet dormant, volcanoes lorded over a steamy jungle realm of rice paddies, nipa huts, majestic palm trees, and lush undergrowth. |
| Three-quarters of the land is covered with forests and woodland, and much of the land is cultivated with rice paddies. |
| The luminous, newly sprouted grass fields reminded her of the paddies of tender rice shoots covering the lowland Kampuchean countryside. |
