Posted in Vietnam, photography, travel, tagged Halong Bay, photography, travel, travel photography, Vietnam on July 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My one regret about Halong Bay was that I only had time for a day trip. This meant 7 total hours in a packed van in exchange for 4 hours of cruising around a spectacular UNESCO World Heritage site.
A fair trade. Here’s what I saw:
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Most tourists cruise around the bay in a chartered junk-style boat. [...]
Posted in Vietnam, photography, travel, tagged Hanoi, Old Quarter, southeast asia, street photography, travel, travel photography, Vietnam on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hanoi’s Old Quarter is amazing. Warrens of narrow alleys, spontaneous street markets, ancient pagodas and crumbling colonial-era buildings. I ignored the map and spent three hours exploring this remnant of Old Asia.
Bicycles are the most convenient way to get around the Old Quarter.
Typical alley. Those stencils are phone numbers (no one could really explain them [...]
Posted in Vietnam, photography, travel, tagged Hanoi, photography, travel, travel photography, Vietnam on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hanoi was hands down one of the highlights of the trip. A contrast to its larger and more chaotic counterpart in the south, Hanoi is a fusion of old and new Asia. I spent most of my time in the Old Quarter. Above is the The Huc bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake, taken in the [...]
Posted in Vietnam, photography, travel, tagged Cholon, HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, photography, Saigon, street photography, travel, travel photography, Vietnam on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I only had one day to check out Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City (most residents still call the central city by its pre-1975 name), so I had big plans and a full itinerary mapped out. But my immune system failed me at a crucial moment and I woke up the day of my departure with [...]
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