Hoang Su Phi

Hoang Su Phi sits in Ha Giang Province, Every year, a rice harvest crop comes to around September. This year, it comes a little late that brings about an opportunity for backpackers to enjoy the sightseeing of rice terraced fields. 

A photo above gives an impression that some houses sink into green tides, a common sight in the northern Vietnam where ethnic minority groups live on farming, husbandry.

For more photos, visit the following link Ha Giang.

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Cottages in Cho Lon Town

The photo above is one of French Jack Garofalo collection (1923 - 2004). He is also known for a photo collection Harlem During Summertime 2004. A photo above describes a way of life of Chinese-originated Vietnamese who left their homeland to earn a living in a foreign country. A then traffic was sailing. Small boats are a means of transportation to transfer their goods from one place to another without the cost of fuel that is replaced by the labor force. Small, narrow channels bring economic benefit to inhabitants.

More photos feature in the following link photos. The content is in Vietnamese.

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A bizarre sign in Phu Quoc beach

A "second to none" sign "No lying on the beach Phu Quoc" caused a shock to tourists. Local restaurants put signs banning tourists lying on the beach Phu Quoc instead of renting their beach chairs. Due to the reaction of people, they had to pull out this sign.

Eco-friendly wild beach Phu Quoc offers resorts that include bungalows with a sea view. Tourists find some activities such as snorkeling, diving, and fishing on their own request.

For more information, visit the following link Tuoi Tre online.

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Pieces of rice fields

Pieces of rice fields captured from above are characteristics of Vietnam's farming. Ever-green pieces are paddies after a time of growing. In some pieces of land, people are bowing to put seeds. Pale yellow pieces are areas that are already seeded. Many spots on pieces are buddles of paddies to grow.

For more photos, visit a link photos.

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Ancient Cho Lon Town

French photographer Jack Garofalo used to live in a China town, Cho Lon. He has a collection of photos depicting a life of Chinese originated Vietnamese in 1960's. The photo above is one of his collection that features on VN Express online. The collection gives a brief description of Chinese culture of Chinese who left their homeland to earn a new life in another country, Vietnam. 

If you are more curious about this culture, visit a link Cho Lon Town. The content is in Vietnamese.

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Ethnic minority people Chi La

Before reading the small content that depicts the photo above, you take some minutes to think what it is. If you guest what it is, you cool man.

It is wet rice fields of ethnic minority people Chi La who live in the northern Vietnam. The majority of these people live on farming. The image above describes a wet rice field, a person is walking a narrow path meandering across a field.

Chi La People's houses are built on stilts. It includes three parts. The main part consists of an ancestor shrine. Each household has a gong and a drum to be used in ritual ceremonies led by a head of a family lineage.

More photos in a link Photos

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Dai Tong Lam Pagoda

Dai Tong Long Pagoda sits in Vung Tau City, southern Vietnam. It was built in 1958 by veteran Thich Thien Hoa and was renovated in 1982. Its campus is near 100 hectares. Dai Tong Lam is seen as a pagoda whose number of Buddha statues ranks the top of Vietnamese pagoda. A record number is more than 10,000.

The campus consists of a learning institution that has the capacity of about 1,000 learners. The sanctum is well noted as is ranked the largest one among Vietnam's pagoda. It was constructed in 2002 with 90 meters long and 46 meters wide.

More information in the link: Dai Tong Lam Pagoda. The content is Vietnamese.

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Mu Cang Chai

Mu Cang Chai is captured after a flood. The North Vietnam had undergone a calamity that caused a great damage to the region and people. Some routes are destroyed, some bridges are collapsed.

After a rain is a bright sun. Daily activities resume. Inhabitants are trying to recover damages caused by natural disaster. Ripe rice crops come around, farmers go to fields to reap.

For more photos of terraced fields, visit the following link: Mu Cang Chai. It is in Vietnamese.

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Men's long dress.

In Vietnam's traditional wedding, a groom and a bride all wear long dresses. A Vietnamese girl in a long dress is used to represent Vietnam. The Vietnamese are proud of the traditional wear as it honors the gracefulness of Vietnamese girl's slim silhouette.

Nowadays, the western trend in clothing hooks young people's attention. It is also convenient to work in the office, to have a meeting, a reception in luxurious hotels where they meet their foreign colleagues.




However, the upper-class people want to make their wedding original by wearing long dresses. A groom and a bride wear different long dresses during a process of their wedding.

The dress above is designed 3D sophisticatedly with white background and black highlights. This sort of business is getting better off.

If you want to see more photos, visit the following link. However, the content is in Vietnamese.
man's long dress

Photo Contest "Savour Vietnam"

A competition of photos of Vietnam, named Savour Vietnam, is organized August 15, 2017, to August 30, 2018. The topic of the contest depicts the beauty of nature in Vietnam, people, its culture. It is a kind of co-creation promotion on Vietnam tourism. The first prize is pretty attractive, including near USD 2000 plus a travel voucher valued roughly USD 1000. The value of a prize is worthy of participating in the tournament.

It is a window of opportunity for a professional or amateur photographer to satisfy their passion. For those interested in this event, visit a link Photo Contest "Savoir Vietnam" for further information.

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Massive wedding of a hundred of lovers

It is not a parade for a statutory holiday or a promotional procession but a massive wedding organized by a local government. It is an idea to help young people in a community who are in need to get married. They may be manual workers in suburban factories, maids, nail makers who have to leave their home land to land a job. Their monthly wages make both ends meet, how they can hold their wedding by their own.

The interest of the society in this regard is worthy of appreciation. It is a people-to-people interest that helps people overcome difficulties of material to come together in a couple's happiness.

Annually, Ho Chi Minh City's local government (Vietnam) organizes a massive wedding for a hundred of couples of lovers whose parents are too poor to hold a wedding party for their beloved children. This is a model that should be adapted to bring happiness to young people in love.

Every couple is offered a bicycle with which a groom drives a bride in a parade downtown. They are clad in traditional wedding wear. In a basket of a bicycle, there is a wedding crowd of a bride. A bride sitting behind wears a conic hat, holding a groom's waist, a romantic scene.

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Tam Coc

Tam Coc-Bich Dong is a well-known attraction in north Vietnam and part of Trang An scenic complex. The photo above depicts a line of small boats is sailing along golden rice paddy fields with a soundtrack of river lapping against oars. The fields end in the beginning of cliff formation 

Tam Coc means three caves, a zone that elapses between rice paddies bathed by a river, punctuated by limestone outcrops. Tam Coc is known as an overland equivalent of Ha Long Bay because of rock formation, caves, water, and landscape. 

Tourists may know about Tam Coc as the film "Indochine" was shot here that put it on a tourist map. Both good and bad come of its burgeoning popularity - access road has been improved, though some canal banks have been lined with concrete. It is a must in a tour in Vietnam tourists should enjoy discovering the beauty of nature. 

Vu Lan Festival (Vietnamese Mother's Festival, Ghost Festival)

Some people call Vu Lan Festival, others name Ghost Festival as souls are in search of mercy. And a lot of others Vietnamese Mother's Day. Whatever it is. the day takes place on the 15 of July of the lunar year (September 5, this year). As the second largest festival in Vietnam after the Lunar New Year, it is a nation-wide celebration among families, businesses.

In Buddha's belief, the seventh month of the Lunar New Year is a month of spirits.Wandering souls are believed to return to their families. 

A legendary story has suggested that Buddha's disciple named Muc Kien Lien saw that his deceased mother was tortured in the hell. According to Buddha's advice, he gathered monks and devotees to pray for his mother's relieve. Thus, the meaning of the festival is to show gratitude and appreciation towards parents and help ancestors' wandering souls return the earth.

On this day, Buddha followers go to a pagoda, wearing a white rose, to pray for their decent parents, particularly their died mothers.

For further information, visit the following link: Vu Lan Festival.

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Facial expressions on the opening day of school

After three-month summer vacation, the first day of schooling is the hardest day of some of our kids. They don't like going to school but stay away from school to play with their next door friends. When their parents take them to school, they don't want their parents to leave them at school. Crying, shouting are common scenes on that day. 

Here are some facial expressions of such kids. 

 

If you are curious to know more facial expressions, visit the following link (the content is in Vietnamese) Facial expressions on the opening day of school

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Ly Son Island

Ly Son Island sits in Quang Ngai Province, Middle of Vietnam. It is one of the relics the local government needs to have approaches to preserve primeval characteristics. 

The industry of tourism here needs developing to satisfy the want of tourists. Unqualified tourist services don't know to promote tourism products in the region. Tourist guides just bring tourists to a destination and return them to hotels that make them bored with a tour. 

In addition, the local government must restrict the height of buildings in this region that causes the bad impact on a scenic landscape of Ly Son Island.

However, tourists are paid off with crystal clean waters full reed wildlife, sandy beaches plus green garlic fields and spectacular volcanic scenery.  

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Van Long Nature Reserve

Van Long Nature Reserve in Ninh Binh Province offers a tourist a scenic landscape and rural life. Set amid glorious limestone outcrops, this tranquil reserve comprises reedy wetland. It is also the last refuges for endangered langurs because the wetland keeps predators and poachers at bay.

Along with Trang An scenic landscape, Tam Coc-Bich Dong National Park, Van Long Nature Reserve is seen as an overland equivalent of Ha Long Bay, named one of the world's wonders, with imposing nature, limestone cliffs, and green fields. Van Long has 33 caves of various sizes but some of them are openly public.

Ecotourism Park Van Long

Ecotourism Park Van Long is one of the destinations the filming group of Kong: Skull Island, an American monster adventure-action film, decided to shoot some Vietnamese scenes, complex of mountains and rivers in the northern Ninh Binh Province. 

The appearance of Ninh Binh Province sites would promote the tourism in this region. In the northwest province is National Park Cuc Phuong that is noted for green valleys, mountains, and conservation centers. 

A visit to this province is a must in a tour in Vietnam a tourist comes to Vietnam. People would discover the beauty of nature that is partly described in the film Kong: Skull Island.   

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Eco Palms House - Mountain Retreat Sa Pa

Sa Pa is one of the attractions in Vietnam, particularly in greeting seasons and a new year. The photo above depicts bungalows people find in rice terraced fields. September is time for people to enjoy golden rice in fields. These bungalows look down at these golden fields, giving fantastic views of nature: sky, mountains, fields.  These fields are dotted with ethnic minority people clad in colorful wear that is an opportunity for professional photographers to compelling images.  

Sapa is home to ethnic minority people who live on farming, husbandry. Nowadays, the industry of tourism has been developed in this region, Many women who can speak a little bit of English become tourist guides to help international tourists in the sightseeing, in return, tourists purchase their handicraft products. 

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Bach Ma National Park

Bach Ma National Park (White Horse National Park), 40 km from Hue, Middle of Vietnam is a place for those interesting in discovering the beauty of nature. People trek in the forest that spans to the horizon.

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China set in the mid autumn

A China set that is served with moon cakes has just sold in a market. The moon cake does not matter, the way to enjoy is important. The cake is served with hot strong tea along with sharing daily chore among family members. That is a pleasure people want to enjoy.

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