Return to Vietnam 2006 (image-intensive!)

[standingup]

Hi Hi,

I like your series alot..Would you mind share with me something?

Which travel agent did you choose?

How long was your holiday?

Thanks thanks..Hope 1 day I could take leave a go for holiday..

 

[astroboy]

Hey Barnie
Thanks for sharing. U still using the 80-200?

I will be in Vietnam in late Jan again but will travel from Hanoi down south... maybe to Ho'an or Hue. Any tips to share?

Cheers!

:thumbsup:

 

[Azure]

Even as traders of the day start travelling downriver

And bartering starts

Even as breakfast comes around

Others clean their nets

 

[Azure]

The poorer ones just glide around

Hoping for a good deal

Some get it!

More photos to come.

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Replies -

No, I did not use a travel agent.

Yes, I intend to return. I've mentioned it a few times in this thread.

No, I do not use the 80-200 anymore. I'd be crazy to lug around heavy gear like that on travel.

 

[audibum]

great stuff man!
im off to vietnam in a couple of hours, lugging my DSLR along, dun think i'll take a tripod with me. but its impossible to take some slow shutter shots handheld...did you take ur tripod with u?
will be back to post some pics of my HCM to Hanoi trip....

 

[Azure]

That's our breakfast!

And that's theirs...

Hope to sell something

Pineapples in trade

The floating sundry store

 

[Azure]

She sold her goods for a tidy sum

A morning napster

Mother and child

The floating market

 

[Azure]

Our host for this segment

Errr.... you want more pineapples

Or perhaps some raw tamarind?

Hey, there're other tourists here too!

 

[Azure]

Shooting the boats...

And a trade concluded

Others race their way to work/school...

 

[nakedtoes]

Thx for sharing nice photos

 

[Azure]

We see a more personal way of life further upriver

Their life is so simple

 

[Azure]

A boatful of coconuts herald the next floating market

River's petrol station!

A pennant, advertising what's on sale

that's rice... not urea...

Pumpkins and carrots

 

[Azure]

And a whole lot of veggies

A successful barter

Hey she posed for me!

A face, of struggle and hope

Their foods so unusual

 

[Yayne]

My other self, my shadowy side...

That's one of my friends with another ang-moh chap on the next crest

Our Dune/Mau'dib worshippers

Okay this one I did some PS to bring out the shadows... that's trying to grab the sun!

Jesus f£%king christ I like the 50th shot. There's so much energy and youth in it. I have an odd question, was it taken with a fish eye lens? I'm a newbie.

 

[Azure]

The next generation, where do they go?

Confused between debris, chicken or water (past, present or future)

Or just to stay simple

Raise a happy family

Even as they await calmer waters that'll never come

 

[Azure]

I may never know. There are some who'd tell you that everything Vietnam is bad, horrible, rotten-to-the-core, etc. And I'll tell you that I've seen the best and the worst of them in the same trip. But I do know one thing....

wherever the flow may take one

whoever you go with

there will be the good, poetic

and there will be the less pleasant

your choice, what you eat, how you do.

 

[Azure]

Some things will always be a pleasant memory of my visit....

Schoolkids

Idoliser of the poet Hang Bac Tu

Cu Chi Tunnel

HCMC from above

Bac Dang ice cream in a coconut

 

[Azure]

I wished I did not have to leave so soon...

even as I left Tan Son Nhat Airport

And returned to the views of Singapore

Thank you for viewing.

I hope to make a return trip to Vietnam again sometime this year. Hopefully, can bring a few of friends along. So keep an eye out for my thread i the Gatherings/Outings section!

 

[cola480]

very nice set of photos... sad at certain instances.. however changes are inevitable
thank you for sharing.

will stay tuned to gatherings/ outings section. AG-VN maybe?

 

[photogene]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!