Translation of outdoors in German

So she and I went to the food store to buy some lunch. However, the store had almost no food and one could pay in local currency or in US dollars. One could really see the country's poor economy.
That is why we sometimes misjudge different people with different faithes and creeds, despite the fact that we have only few ideas about their background and about their cultures. Thank you.
We were Lao Cai around six o'clock but the train left only at eight. I was somehow relieved though that we had all the dangerous bus journeys behind us and that we left this lovely place soon.