Tourists pose with buffalo to post their instagram.

The above picture depicts a Norwegian tourist who passed by a tourist city Hoi An and stopped to pose with a buffalo and its owner in front of scenic rice paddy background. It is a trendy model that has attracted the attention of many foreign holidaymakers visiting this resort city to possess a new hit photo prop on their social media platforms.

Recently, many farmers spend their time growing paddies or raising chickens and ducks behind their houses instead, they invest their dough and time to raise and train buffalo for posing with tourists. They just raise several buffalo, clean them, train them to smile or do something quickly on demand. They also put some perfume on buffalo to make them more human. Then they spend their time resting on top of a buffalo in an open rice paddy field to hook tourists' interest. With some bucks, a tourist snaps a buffalo on his/her demand.

It is a new kind of decent business to rake in extra money. It seems to be easy but it requires investment and effort. Formers have to invest money in feeding some of these countryside creatures and learn a bit of English to communicate would-be tourists.   

The photograph courtesy of Tuoi Tre Online