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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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