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A bia hoi shop where the beer is about NZD0.40. Often the chairs are kindergarten-height
A bia hoi shop where the beer is…
A bia hoi shop where the beer is about NZD0.40. Often the chairs are kindergarten-height.
A bia hoi shop where the beer is…
A bia hoi shop where the beer is about NZD0.40. Often the chairs are kindergarten-height.
A bia hoi shop where the beer is…
Hanoi roads are chocka with scooters. Crossing the road is easy ... just shuffle your way across without looking and they'll all go around you.
Hanoi roads are chocka with scoo…
Hanoi roads are chocka with scooters. Crossing the road is easy ... just shuffle your way across without looking and they'll all go around you.
Hanoi roads are chocka with scoo…
Hanoi roads are chocka with scooters. Crossing the road is easy ... just shuffle your way across without looking and they'll all go around you.
Hanoi roads are chocka with scoo…
Hanoi roads are chocka with scooters. Crossing the road is easy ... just shuffle your way across without looking and they'll all go around you.
Hanoi roads are chocka with scoo…
Old Quarter of Hanoi.
Old Quarter of Hanoi.
Old Quarter of Hanoi.
Old Quarter of Hanoi.
Presidential Palace.
Presidential Palace.
How to make sure you don't lose any one from your kindergarten field trip.
How to make sure you don't lose …
Ho Chi Minh mausoleum.
Ho Chi Minh mausoleum.
Water puppets are controlled by underwater mechanisms operated by people behind the curtains.
Water puppets are controlled by …
Water puppets are controlled by underwater mechanisms operated by people behind the curtains.
Water puppets are controlled by …
This tourist trap (handicraft centre) hasn't heard of customer privacy yet ... it is a relatively new concept over here. They display their happy customers' photos, phone numbers, addresses, emails!
This tourist trap (handicraft ce…
This boy paddles with his feet. Talented!
This boy paddles with his feet. …
Surprise Cave is surprisingly big.
Surprise Cave is surprisingly big.
Beautiful Halong Bay.
Beautiful Halong Bay.
Beautiful Halong Bay.
Beautiful Halong Bay.
At Titop Island.
At Titop Island.
On top of Titop Island.
On top of Titop Island.
This is our day-trip boat.
This is our day-trip boat.
Returning to the mother-ship.
Returning to the mother-ship.
Getting on these sampans ... which are essentially spliced bamboo baskets that have been water-proofed.
Getting on these sampans ... whi…
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Floating convenience store.
Floating convenience store.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Kids at Vung Vieng fishing village.
Kids at Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Around Vung Vieng fishing village.
Quan An Ngon in Hanoi has street food in a slightly more upmarket environment.
Quan An Ngon in Hanoi has street…
The gate to the Forbidden City at Hue's Imperial Citadel.
The gate to the Forbidden City a…
Part of the wall.
Part of the wall.
Fat carps.
Fat carps.
Inside the Forbidden City.
Inside the Forbidden City.
Parts of the Forbidden City are overgrown with grass ... much of it was destroyed with the American War, by the French and also by weather.
Parts of the Forbidden City are …
Ceiling of the corridor in the Forbidden City.
Ceiling of the corridor in the F…
Inside the Forbidden City.
Inside the Forbidden City.
Thien Mu pagoda.
Thien Mu pagoda.
Poster commemorating self-immolation of a monk in 1968 to protest discrimination by the Vietnamese President (a Catholic) against Buddhists.
Poster commemorating self-immola…
Young novices servicing older monks.
Young novices servicing older mo…
Our corner pub with kindergarten-height seats.
Our corner pub with kindergarten…
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Minh Hang's tomb complex.
At Khai Dinh's tomb complex.
At Khai Dinh's tomb complex.