Viet Nam 2005
In 2005 we took a trip to Viet Nam with the tour company Overseas Adventure Travel. It was a wonderful trip and I'd like to share a few photos with you. Here's a side story about patience. I've been putting off loading these photos from my old old camera to my new computer because of the technical difficulties I've had in the past. I hooked things up and tried to load them. Time after time all I got was the little rainbow circle spinning and spinning. Finally, after a glimmer of an old memory, I "stepped away from the computer". When I returned, there they were. But I had wasted hours, and I still have 2/3 of my photos on compact flash cards.
So with the time remaining this afternoon I'll give a short photo selection, but I can see that this will provide for more than one KTK.
By chance we arrived at the time of Tet, the New Year's celebration. You need an orange tree for the best celebration.
I was fascinated by the power grid, which our group leader said had to be checked every month for unauthorized connections.
Families often ate in their own storefronts.
Ho Chi Minh"s home; the early days.
Outside of our hotel in Hanoi I got perhaps the best photo I've ever taken.
These items are made of paper and are burned in a ritual with great symbolic significance.
Many streets feature the same product on the whole street. This one sold small metal stoves for burning the above-mentioned paper symbols.
The traffic was marvelous. We were given lessons in how to cross a street.
"Keep walking at a steady pace, look straight ahead, don't make eye contact".
My best experience (almost ever) was a motorized jitney ride through the streets for an hour. OMG.
Running out of time….it's up to you.
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