Typhoon Damrey hit the central Vietnam

Typhoon Damrey tore the central Vietnam just a few days before the APEC Summit that took place in Danang City. Death toll top 60. 2,000 homes had been collapsed and 8000 ones had been damaged.

Streets that were flooded or washed away caused traffic congestion. Ancient Town Hoi An was severely flooded that cancelled the schedule of visit of APEC leaders' spouses.

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Rural Sapa

A scene of rural Sapa was captured by a marathon runner. A serene life with fresh air is quite different from that in a bustle and hustle city.

Many photos were posted on Facebook by runners that created a hit on the social media platform. This is considered a co-creation advertising that has made a success in the promotion of tourism.

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Vietnam-Laos Border

Vietnam-Laos Border

The border is formed by different floras in two regions. Laos, mountainous and landlocked country, is bordered with Vietnam in the east. 

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A Drone Photo of Fishing Boat

A drone photo describes a scene of fishing boats in Mekong River. The inhabitants in the southern Vietnam lives on farming and fishing.
Recently, Typhoon Damrey is the strongest one that made landfall in Vietnam and left a toll of at least 40 with hundreds of homeless people. The severe sufferings the inhabitants have incurred due to weak weather forecasting of the local people. With out-of-date forecasting equipment, the government can't help the residents prepare themselves for a natural calamity.

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Chua Cau (Pagoda Bridge), Hoi An Ancient Town, in Typhoon Damrey

Chua Cau is one of the historic sites in Hoi An Ancient Town which depicts the original structural exchange between Vietnam and Japan. It is a tourist attraction for local and international travelers. 

Typhoon Damrey just hit Hoi An Ancient Town. Rising floodwaters accompanied by heavy rains caused many streets in Hoi An to be severely inundated. 

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A panorama of rice fields

The annual parachuting festival is organized in the northern Vietnam. Many parachuters take magnificent photos that have drawn the interest of viewers.

A photo above is realized by a parachute jumper, giving a viewer an impression of serenity, fresh air in a rural area.

We are office workers. Our life is full of work, striving for personal performance. Sometimes, we need time for our family to go a place in a rural area to enjoy moments of rest.

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U-Turn Shaped Rice Fields

This is one of the drone photos which depicts golden rice fields in the northern Vietnam. It does not only describe the gorgeous nature but also the lifestyle of ethnic minority people who live on farming. It also depicts the culture in this rural area which seems to get lost due to the development of tourism.

The inhabitants do any kind of business to earn their living without the awareness of retaining their cultural characteristics. They don't know that these identities are factors to attract the interest of tourist to their place.

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Golden Rice Fields

A drone photo describes yellow rice fields spanning till the end of the horizon, a scenic panorama of Vietnam's rural area. A common vision is a farmer is going out to a field to a workday early morning. A life of serenity, a simple lifestyle and rustic clothing are characteristics of Vietnamese farmer. 

Nowadays, a farmer hardly becomes prosperous in this trade because of natural disasters. The national weather forecast has not delivered urgent warnings to protect them. Vietnamese farmers have suffered from the loss of their relative's lives, materials, property in recent calamities.  

More photos about downpours and flash floods in Vietnam.

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Farming practice experience in Sapa

Farming practice experiences

A kind of tourism in Sapa has hooked the attention of foreign tourists is they experience a farming life in a rural area in Vietnam. In this photo, it suggests a scene of a foreigner ploughing a paddy field in Sapa province. 

Under beating sun morning, groups of dozen tourists come to a field under foggy clouds, they learn and practise how to give directions to water buffaloes.

This sort of tourism has brought to local households fair incomes to cover their family expenses.

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Cai Beo Floating Village in Cat Ba Island

Cai Beo Floating Village

Cai Beo Floating Village is a fishing village where inhabitants live on fishing and seafood farming. It includes hundreds of floating houses as featured in the photo above. The residents have evolved from hunting to gathering, fishing to agriculture. In recent years, Cai Beo Floating Village has witnessed the development of tourism, it still stays intact and as wild as ever.

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Dambri Waterfall - Bao Loc

Dambri Waterfall in Bao Loc City

Dambri Waterfall sits in the middle of a jungle in the Middle Vietnam. To arrive upon this magnificent fall, you have to walk a long distance through a forest under dense green canopies. The scenic surrounding is natural, roaring sounds of water pouring down are heard from very far.

On a path to the foot of the waterfall, you should be careful not to slip on moss covering a route.

More photos of Vietnam's beautiful scenes.

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Crop harvest

A photo of rice crop harvest

The drone photo depicts a breathtaking, iconic scene of a province in the southern Vietnam. It is time of rice crop harvest farmers leave their home early morning.

A contest was organised by Phuong Nam calendar company to prepare printing calendars for the year of 2018. The competition hooked the attention of many professional photographers across the country. 

More photos of the drone photo contest.

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Vietnam's beauty from above

Lotus collection

The photo above depicts a scene of lotus collection. The lotus is a kind of typical vegetable that is processed in many specialities in provinces in the southern Vietnam. 

This is one of the drone photo collection. The drone photo contest called on professional and amateur photographers across the country to participate in the calendar collection that a calendar firm plans to publish for the year of 2018. 

Nearly 3400 pieces of work were sent to the competition and 100 out of them were shortlisted. 16 photos went in the final round.

More photos of the contest of calendar collection. 

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A collection of conic hats

A girl wearing a conic hat is one of the conic hat collection. A conic hat with a Vietnamese girl wearing a traditional dress is representative of Vietnam. 

The collection of photos joins an exhibition to introduce Vietnam to international tourists. The participation of this collections includes professional photographers across the nation that depict the iconic hat in the various lens of lifestyle.  

An image of a smile on the hat is to welcome all tourists who come to Vietnam.

More photos of conic hats. 

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A photo collection of Vietnam's beauty

An exhibition of photos was organised in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam. 30 young professional photographers across Vietnam contribute to this collection. The collection depicts the beauty of nature, lifestyle, and culture to promote Vietnam in terms of tourism. 

More photos of the collection. The content is Vietnamese. 

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Walking across a forest in the sunset

Two girls in Vietnamese traditional dress are walking through a forest in the sunset, in Da Lat City. Da Lat City is seen as a city of dream. It is also a tourist attraction that has hooked the interest of thousands of local and international tourists. They come there on year-end holidays. The climate is mild and nature is magnificent.

A kid riding a boa

Many households in rural areas in Vietnam are raising wild animals as a livelihood. It is a kind of business that brings fair benefits to them. A concern is that they ignore the danger caused by wild animals.Their children and they live along with wild animals.

A photo above shows a kid is riding a boa that weighs 50 kgs. It illustrates their parents don't care about the safety of the kid. They see a boa as a toy that their child can play.

A local government fined the father of this kid as he didn't pay attention to the safety of the kid. 

A Video captures a kid's playing with a boa. 

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A log cabin looking down rice fields

A log cabin gives a view of rice fields

A log cabin is built by ethnic minority people to watch activities in fields. In off-season period, it is a kind of business that ethnic minority people earn money by letting it to tourists who want to admire the scenic landscape from above or take photos. 

The collection of money may be used for community activities to retain their traditional culture. 

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Photo of three Vietnamese girls in ao dai dress

Vietnamese girls in ao dai dress

A photo hits on Facebook when one of the three girls posts on a social media platform. One of them who is studying in a university posts this photo on Facebook with the following questions: Who is a mom? and who are daughters? that generates a wave of argument. Because their appearances don't show many gaps in age, it is hard to identify who is the mother. Some say the one in green (standing on the left) is the mother and the rest are the daughters. Others assure the middle is the mother. 

How about you?

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Salt Lake in China

A salt lake reflects like a mirror. The first thing tourists should notice is colourful clothes would be well reflected on the surface of a lake. The second, if they want to take a well-reflected photo, they have to wait until the lake becomes calm. 

More photos about the salt lake. 

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