This trip was with some of my best friends from school and we wanted to see both some of Vietnam's amazing nature as well as the buzzing city life of the capital. I believe the streets of Hanoi are where street photography must have been invented!
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Hanoi Street Life
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Hanoi is THE place for people watching. The streets are busy and buzzing and very different from Europe. This is a cafe, sit down on the tiny chairs and get served - if you don't mind the waiter cutting their toe nails.
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Hanoi Street Life
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People are incredibly poor and everybody tries to sell things on the street. You'll find them carrying around their goods to be sold for the day all the time.
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Hanoi Street Life
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How they manage to live with their shoulder and back pain is a mystery to me...
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Hanoi Street Life
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This guy makes his living with selling sweets. Another cafe in the background, ready for customers to sit down.
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Hanoi Street Life
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I'm glad at least one of them wears a helmet!
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Hanoi Street Life
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Time for lunch, just have a seat and get your meal cooked in ront of you.
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Hanoi Street Life
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Buy your greens from the streets!
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Hanoi Street Life
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Hanoi streets are loud and FULL of motor cycles. This is not the start of a race, this is the typical waiting at a red light.
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Hanoi Street Life
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While locals just take their chances and simply cross the road, tourists wait forever, hoping for a gap to squeeze through... There is none.
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Hanoi Street Life
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How is this even possible...
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Temple of Literature
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An impressive tree just outside the touristy Literature Temple
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Temple of Literature
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This temple in the center of Hanoi was built in 1070 and offers some peace from the busy street life.
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Temple of Literature
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There are various pavilions, halls, statues and altars like this one.
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Hoan Kiem Lake
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A beautiful hidden temple close to the Hoan Kiem Lake.
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Hanoi Nightlife
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Hanoi Nightlife
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A typical scene at night time all around the city - friends having dinner on the street.
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Hanoi Nightlife
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View from a rooftop bar
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Hanoi Nightlife
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The three of us enjoying the nightlife
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Ninh Binh
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We booked a day tour to the Ninh Bin province with our first stop offering the beautiful view of landscapes dominated by the mountains of Non Nuoc and Canh Dieu.
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Ninh Binh
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Our guide then brought us to Hoa Lu, an ancient capital of Vietnam.
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Ninh Binh
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One of two temples we visited in Hoa Lu.
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Ninh Binh
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We boarded a little boat like this at Tam Coc wharf to visit several caves along the river.
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Ninh Binh
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The heavy tourists are being shipped around by strong legs.
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Ninh Binh
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The landscape was amazing, yet the frequent stops by other boats wanting to sell fruit to tourists was just awful.
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Mai Chau
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Another two day trip took us to Mai Chau, a scenic district that attracts many tourists. This photo was taken overlooking Mai Chau valley just before we decended down to the little town.
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Mai Chau
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The nature here is very calm and peaceful and a welcome change from buzzing Hanoi.
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Mai Chau
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On a bike ride we saw farmers working in fields as well as locals weaving scarves.
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Mai Chau
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I'm not sure how the locals feel about the rich tourists biking past them working in the fields...
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Mai Chau
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We spent the night in a communal dorm in the attic but there are also touristy bungalows around like in the back of this photo.
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Mai Chau
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We hiked up the 1000 steps to a cave which offers this view of the valley. Because of the very high humidity, the climbing made me sweat more than I ever have in my entire life...