How time flies! It’s almost two years ago that I visited Hoi An, the rather touristy but oh so charming town on the Vietnamese central coast. The old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, …
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It’s evening in Hoi An
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Two, three or four men in a boat
The sun was just rising and it was the busiest beach I ever saw. I was about an hour’s drive south of Hoi An in Vietnam on an excursion with the photographer Etienne Bossot. The …
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Halong Bay mist
Everything on the ship was wet, but it wasn’t raining, it was just so incredibly misty. Together with some 20 people I had just boarded the Dragon’s Pearl junk for an overnight cruise in Halong …
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The embroidering ladies in Sapa
“Come sit down with us”, said the lady with a warm smile (the one looking at the camera in the photo here below). Rather, that’s what I concluded that she said since she gesticulated to …
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Old times coming alive
I passed under the railway in Old Hanoi and turned left, and suddenly I was no longer in a normal busy street but in an unusual busy street: quite a few people were dressed up, …
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Who can say no to happy water?
We stopped in a small village near Ha Giang in northern Vietnam for no other reason than to see if there was anyone around who would invite us in so that I could get some …
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A morning cycling tour in Hanoi
It was a dreary morning with grey skies and some drizzle and I was to cycle 17 km, around the West Lake in Hanoi. “Would you like a helmet?” my guide Hung asked when we …
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The rice paper factory
The hard-working ladies in the rice paper factory in the Mekong delta, Vietnam, were used to visitors and paid no attention whatsoever to the tourists staring at them. While it was certainly very interesting to …
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