The theme letter for our travel pics this week again is V, for Vietnam. Our second last picture is in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as its better known to westerners. HCMC is the name given to the city by the winners of the Vietnamese civil war – but just to confuse matters, the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is again V, for Vietnam. For Friday, it’s a temple shrouded in smog, in the middle of a lake, itself in the middle of Hanoi. Well, strictly speaking, this photo was taken FROM a temple – but the image is of the “Tower of the Turtle”.…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is again V, for Vietnam. The Mekong Delta – for a generation of westerners, the very words conjure up visions of intrigue, and danger – and of beauty and excitement, and a dozen other emotions mixed together. For the tourist in Vietnam, the Mekong Delta…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For Wednesday of this week, lets go shopping! Here you can see the heads of a group of Aussie tourists, as we get set to head into the Hoi An markets. The Hoi An central markets are regarded as one of the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. (Yes, I know that was last week’s theme – but we decided to do a V2) Most tourists, when they go to Vietnam, will be offered a cruise on Halong Bay. So, what’s in store? Well, when we did a two-day cruise, we…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. (Yes, I know that was last week’s theme – but we decided to do a V2) Our first in this second week is of Vietnamese women wearing the Ao Dai – the uniquely Vietnamese fashion that is elegant – but highly impractical.…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For an ostensibly communist country, Vietnam is a remarkably capitalist society. In fact, it is officially “a market economy with a socialist orientation” … but on-the-ground, that means little. This woman, selling seafood off a boat in Halong Bay it s a…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. For Saturday, we head to the middle of the country, and the city of Hoi An. This historic city was initially a harbour for the Cham people – who ruled the coast of central and southern Vietnam for about 1500 years, until…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. I’ve mentioned Halong Bay before – and this image comes from there: it’s a sunset, as we cruised the bay in January 2016. HaLong literally means “descending dragon” … the legend is that as a giant dragon landed, it gouged out valleys and gashes…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is V, for Vietnam. Hanoi is a huge sprawling metropolis with nearly 8 million residents in its greater urban area, and a history that dates back five thousand years – the first human settlement in the area coming around 3000 BC The centre of what would…
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