End of the story

Back again in Doha. After a last visit to another floating market and a short stop at the Saigon flower market we finished the tour. An eventless flight (fortunately) to Doha and now waiting for the connecting flight to Budapest.

Mekong delta

Again a flight. From Danang to Ho Chi Minh, then almost two hours od driving on a road full full full of scooters, then a boat took us in the Delta. Plenty of water as we expected and intensive water traffic activity. After a short and touristic cooking class we spent our night by the river in a homestay.

Hoi An

Weather in Hoi An is excellent this time. 25 degrees Celsius, mostly sunshine though slightly humide. There are plenty of opportunities for a photograph including visits to rice farms, fishmarkets but even staying on the street one can see something interesting each minute. 

Boats

After train, car, airplain and car again, we are in Hoi An, a city by the Thu Bon river close to the sea. Being close to the chinese new year the city is nicely decorated with lanterns. Early morning we went on a boat tour to see the fishermen coming back from their night work and selling the fish (and shrimps, squids, snails etc.) at the local market.

Night train to Hanoi

This was our last day in the North, a place where is worth coming back before the infrastructure develops and will be invaded by tourists. Today one can see mostly authentic national costumes but some already wear parts bought from the shop. Everybody was happy that we took photos of them and noone wanted to sell us fake handmade objects. This will change soon as Vietnam develops at high speed.
Finally we took a night train back to Hanoi.

Working on rice fields

Today we passed from Ha Giang to Hoang Su Phi through a valley full of paddy fields. We were not lucky with the weather, hence no photos with breathtaking scenery. However we saw people working. On the last picture one can see a red dzao woman with some rice fields in the background.

Markets, markets

Today we have enjoyed two more markets. We had plenty opportunities to observe not only the colourful dresses of the different ethnic groups but also to get an insight in their behavior. This world is definitely lead by women. They carry the heavy goods, they sell and buy them and on the way we saw only women working on the fields. At the same time men had a big fight with the alcohol what they lost. At about noon thet were all drunk after the consumption of a huge quantity of rice- and corn wine. It was particularly interesting the animal market where cows, pigs, dogs and chicken were waiting for their future. I have to mention that all people were very friendly with us letting us taking photos of them.