Vietnam Photos

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“Travel through Vietnam, November 2011″

From Vietnam, posted by Arlo Midgett on 1/23/2012 (165 items)

: In Vietnam, they’ll load their scooters down with just about anything. Alive, by the…

: Immediately when we crossed from Laos into Vietnam, we noticed a difference in the sc…

: On a sleeper bus; met a Dutch couple coming in from Laos and ended up finding a hotel…

: Every seat on the bus was a lay-down seat. Not very comfortable for taller people (l…

: So much of the countryside was like this, but more picturesque. But on a rainy, over…

: Ow, my ear.

: Dinner in Hanoi

: Invisible spring rolls!

: Hoan Kiem Lake, in Hanoi

: Turtle Tower

: Think tourism might be profitable here?

: Our mess hall

: Floating village in Halong Bay

: I guess this is a famous rock: http://www.theibns.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_con…

: Passing ship

: Tourists coming in

: Halong Bay panorama

: Look! Big rock!

: The crouching row

: Floating convenience store

: Heavy camera

: Our guide; never spoke a word to us

: Hang on, I think you have something in your ear…

: Through the cave

: Also a photographer

: Waiting for the others to come through

: All clear

: Watching people who have never kayaked before in their lives try to get unstuck in th…

: Under the cave

: Tilted horizon

: Again with the tilted horizon

: Floating city

: Squid-fishing boat. Notice the lights strung up.

: Hammock time

: Stretching the net

: Probably not making kindling for a fire…

: Working on something

: Watching the world go by

: Raft dogs. They’re the worst.

: Floating home

: Life jackets

: Tourist class

: Cement boat

: Coming in to dock

: Vietnamese flag

: Up on deck

: Old man of the sea

: Floating market

: Coming back to our ship

: These cement boats were the fresh water reservoirs for the floating cities

: In front of the floating city

: Posing with the floating city

: Rowing on the (semi) open ocean

: Halong Bay panorama

: Me in Halong Bay

: #1 I couldn’t decide which photo of Oksana I liked best. So I uploaded 3.

: #2

: #3

: I took this photo just one day…

: …before taking this one.

: Tourists boats

: Leaving the bay

: Sunset

: Orange sky

: Orange clouds

: Sunset

: Sunset in Halong Bay

: Fire in the sky, closeup

: Fire in the sky

: Orange haze

: “Cooking” class

: Making spring rolls

: Heading into the sunset

: Lights behind the rock

: Fishing for squid at night!

: The sun deck at night

: Watching the ship swing at anchor

: Sunrise in Halong Bay The morning of our second day made the whole trip worthwhile!

: Daybreak at the floating village

: Our bedroom on the Opera was NOT one of the nicer ones…!

: Early bird catches the worm! These ladies were right outside my window. When I opened…

: Yeah, the only reason they raise the sails is for advertising. Still, pretty.

: Morning commute

: Traffic jam

: Sunrise again

: Indochina sails

: Overnight anchorage

: From the top deck

: Deck-to-deck salesmen. Salespersons.

: Orange sails

: Floating suburbs

: Anchored near the shore

: Looks sort of like an RSS feed

: Such a pretty ship. Such a lame tender boat.

: Oksana enjoying the sunrise on the sun deck

: Vietnamese flags

: Entrance to the Sung Sot cave

: Halong Bay made the “7 Wonders scam” list. Good for them.

: Guard dog

: Our group in the Sung Sot Cave

: Stairs to the next chamber

: The exit ahead

: Natural lighting 1, fake lighting 0

: Our guide was SO pleased with himself after revealing this stale joke of a stalagmite…

: Big chamber

: Cave photos. Why didn’t I bring my tripod ashore??

: Offerings to a stone that kind of looks like a turtle.

: Path through the cave

: Cave lighting

: Exit out

: Last look into the cave

: View of Halong Bay from the cave mouth

: A cute couple posing at a lookout above Halong Bay

: A cuter couple at the same place

: Another grotto

: Mia and Ivan

: Path along the water’s edge

: Permanent dock at high tide

: Waiting for the boat to pick us up

: Coming in to dock

: Dockside service

: A good view of our ship, the Opera

: Good view of our sun deck

: Sunny morning in Halong Bay — moods improving!

: Halong Bay anchorage panorama

: Closeup on the grotto

: Motoring back through the bay

: Last lunch on the Opera

: The view from our table

: Depth in the limestone pinnacles

: Some many coves to explore My kingdom for a kayak!

: Scooter in Hanoi at night

: One of the interesting failures I got while trying to take the previous image

: Whenever we went anywhere, we walked around THIS corner so I could pet this very affe…

: Oksana noticed and captured the shadows on the wall

: Pho

: Soup additives

: Badminton

: Fish

: Dried shrimp (This has to have been the stinkiest market we’d ever been in)

: Nuts

: Dried fruit

: Durian (Didn’t help the smell)

: Fruit prep

: PJs?

: More dried smelly stuff

: Boredom

: Dried fish

: Longan and Rambutan

: Shrimp

: Sip

: Mango-cicles

: Date night?

: Mobile vendor

: The hats, the bikes. Just like what I pictured Vietnam to be.

: I don’t even want to know what’s up with her legs.

: More PJs, more fruit

: Smoke break

: We’ll take 3 kilos, please!

: Rambutan

: The beginning of rush hour

: Sunset

: The real rush hour

: 3 million scooters in Vietnam. (That’d be 100 for every resident of Juneau, Alaska.)

: Zoom

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