One of the big features of this summer was the trip to Vietnam. Holidays but also the celebration of the transition to the edge of reason: the big 3-0!
The trip was incredibly short, trying to do the whole country in 15 days was way too ambitious, specially if you break your back and moving, sitting and laying is painful!
Uncle Ho's mausoleum
Temple a pilier unique
Library
Night train to Sappa
Then Sappa, with the breath taking rice fields. A 2 day trekking in the mountains with other very nice tourists.
Rice fields everywhere... stunning!
sure you don't want to buy anything?
trier le riz, ou emporte par le vent...
rice wine anyone?
the fog arrived in seconds...
the whole group
on the way back... it took about 10 min to take this photo, not easy if you speak Mongolian to a Vietnamese lady!
Halong Bay. Stunning! Incredible when jumping from the “rd floor of the boat to the sea, which def increases the adrenaline levels...
Our boat
It is as stunning as it looks!
Canoeing in the Bay...
Jumping from the boat, a lot of hesitation to start with, after pure fun!
you buy from me?
By night was even nicer!
Hue, the emperor's city, with temples, tombs, the imperial city and major place Vietnam's recent history.
Hanoi-Hue by sleeping bus... last time ever! it literally broke my back and couldn't walk sit, walk stand or sleep properly till the end of the trip!
Entering the cite imperiale!
who's watching who?
the famous flag known to the world...
if you are a tourist you have to do it properly!
Tuc Duc's and Minh Mang tombs
Hoi An. The tourist city, the tailor city. Where the French structure is almost intact, where the river is part of the life and the market is an exhilarating place.
the city flooded only a day or two after we felt!
the market
the home of N'Guyen's family
on the road
Japanese bridge
the beach... under the rain but the beach still!
Saigon. Capital and big city, however a very quick look at the major places before taking the plane back to Paris.
sucre de canne
the townhouse
the "cathedral"
by night
the age of reason... before and after 30
15 days later...
Key features of the trip:
the heat, traffic and transportation, the noise, the street food. And the last thing, a passenger passing away in the airplane while on our way back to Paris. And is the question everybody ask, they put him in the toilet until we landed (10 hours later!)
the heat, traffic and transportation, the noise, the street food. And the last thing, a passenger passing away in the airplane while on our way back to Paris. And is the question everybody ask, they put him in the toilet until we landed (10 hours later!)
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