jungles of vietnam

Just got back from a long weekend in the middle of the jungle. The area has started to see a lot more tourists going to see the culture of vietnam's ethnic minorities, but we got to go so far in where they said tourists barely go because its so remote. Our guide didn't even know the way and had to hire some of the villagers to lead him. We walked almost 40 km to get there, and stayed in a stilt house that the mayor of the village ran. We asked where the money from our stay went, whether they spread it around to other families at all, seeing as its a communist country, but our guide kind of went around the question, but he did tell us that some of it goes under the table to the police in the area. They didn't have any electricity and got power from water turbines. They just built an elementary school in the area, but if they want to go to middle school they have to travel 2 hours and go to boarding school. Most live on subsistence farming and only go grocery shopping once a month.