This week, we’ve been looking at temples – and for Saturday, 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 legendary sacred turtle…
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 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…
The turtle is gone, but his spirit lives on. In Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem lake, there lived a Giant Yangtze softshell turtle – one of only four known to still be alive. It was the symbol of Vietnam’s independence, and was revered as sacred by many. I say was, because it died this week, just as…
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