Vietnam

These are some picture from my vacation to Vietnam in January of 2008.

New Year’s Eve 2007 downtown Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon)

Xôi (or glutinous rice) vendor catering to New Year celebrants

Reunification Palace, Ho Chi Minh City

A Huey helicopter parked on the roof of the Reunification Palace.

Balloon vendor

Roasting suckling pig.  Before…

…and after.

Durian vendor

Rượu thuốc (liquor with preserved scorpion and cobra)

Goldfish vendor

 
Fruit and produce market

Sunset, Đà Nẵng

 
Cham ruins in Mỹ Sơn

 
Fertility monument in Mỹ Sơn

 
Mỹ Sơn

 
Mausoleum of Emperor Khải Định in Huế

 
Musicians in Huế

 
The car that transported Thích Quảng Đức shortly his self-immolation.

 
School girl wearing traditional Áo dài

Household goods merchant in open market

 
Vĩ tuyến 17 (or The Seventeenth parallel)

 
Entrance to Phong Nha cave

Inside the Phong Nha cave

View from our hotel in Đồng Hới

Unusual “natural” formation inside Hang Sung Sot cave in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.

Phong Nha cave

Phong Nha cave

Hạ Long Bay

Woman selling seafood in Hạ Long Bay

Thien Cung Grotto in Hạ Long Bay

Boats waiting for tourist at Hạ Long Bay

 
Variety of Vietnamese tropical fruit (Rambutan, Pitaya, Papaya, Custard Apple and the infamous Durian)

 
Xich Lo (or rickshaw) driver waiting for customers

Nha Trang skyline at night

View from our hotel in the 11th district of Southern Vietnam

Yummy seafood noodle soup

A young man selling lottery tickets

Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica (or Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn)