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The Mekong Delta provides sustenance for millions of Vietnamese who live amongst its network of small rivers. Notice the child's cool haircut.
Bunches of incense sticks drying in the sun.
Mmmm hmmm, appetising snake flesh! Finger lickin' good.
This is a typical boat used on the Mekong Delta. The boat's rowing system allows the woman to get her full body weight behind the stroke (as long as she keeps her balance!).
Here I am with a friendly one year old python, already 55lbs in weight.
The Great Cao Dai Temple, Tay Ninh. Caodaism is a fusion of a number of religions and they employ a Catholic hierarchy, you'll notice the bishops and cardinals etc. sitting down the front! One of the Westerners they revere is Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)!
There are many nice beaches along Vietnam's coast, here's one (can't remember where though, oops).
The hats worn here are typical of Vietnam and are rarely seen outside of this country.
This photo is taken near Ninh Binh where waterlogged rice fields nestle up to tall limestone hills.
Ninh Binh is the site of some extensive karst landscape, a geological formation of limestone rock, the same as Ireland's Burren region.
In Sapa I was presented with this lovely bouquet of marijuana! No wonder I'm smiling.
I am just after buying a new hat from this hill tribeswoman.
A H'mong girl. The three marks on her forehead are from a traditional healing treatment. A flame is used to create a vacuum in a glass that is upturned and placed on the skin, the vacuum causing blood to be pulled to the surface. This girl was probably suffering from headaches.
The Sunday market at Bac Ha near Sapa is a riot of colourful hill tribespeople. Here is two of their colourful children.
Colourfully dressed women shopping for colourful dresses.
Asians have been carrying babies on their backs for thousands of years, long before Westerners cottoned on to the idea.
From a valley near Sapa you look down on waterlogged rice fields cut into the hillside.
The sinking sun reflects off the rice terraces.
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