Vietnam - Hue & Hoi An

Inside Hue Citadel

Hue local markets

Thien Mu Pagoda - Hue

Learning to roll incense

The finished product

Hoi An

Feasting on 'Cao Lau' and drinking 50c beers by the canal - real Asian travel!

Hindu influenced traditional dance

Vietnam - Sa Pa

Trekking in Sa Pa

Black H'mong ladies trekking from Sa Pa back to their village

Rice crops during harvest

Rice harvesting

Our group at the 'home-stay' during the trek

The H'mong use the Indigo plant to dye materials

Not the best shoes for trekking!

Red Dzao ladies working on textiles to sell

Sa Pa by night

 Bac Ha Markets

Farmers bartering over water buffalo

Locals bartering over dogs, chickens and pigs..

 

Inside a local kitchen

Dried corn

Vietnam! - Ha Noi & Ha Long Bay

Ha Noi..

The first part of our three week trip through Vietnam & Cambodia..

Hanoi by night - A mass of scooters dodging pedestrians, cars, vendors, buses & animals

Hanoi water puppets - Performances started in flooded rice fields ~11th century

Puppeteers - control from behind the curtain

Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum

The Presidential Palace - Hanoi

Hanoi Citadel - First built ~ 1010 AD.

'Uncle Ho' (Ho Chi Minh)

Hanoi War Museum

One of the tanks which crashed the gate to the Presidential Palace in Saigon ending the Vietnam War on the 30th April 1975

Ha Long Bay..

Exploring Ha Long from the junk with guide 'Lucky'

Titiov Island

Cat Ba Island..

Young Vietnamese boys..

.. being boys

Cat Ba sunset

One of the many floating seafood restaurants off Cat Ba

'Watch this space'

Lots more photos to come from Sa Pa, Hoi An, Saigon and Cambodia..