Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Framing Vietnamese Food

Posted by Pktan on Apr 28th, 2009
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Street Food: Here’s the stall where i had my first real pork roll in Vietnam. So great to have your favourite food in its native country. There was plenty of action around the stall.
Photo by micz

Street food vendor Saigon
Photo by jaschajabes

Street food, Hanoi
Photo by barbararich

Street food at Hanoi: Food stalls in the small alley ways [...]


Framing Vietnam

Posted by Pktan on Apr 27th, 2009
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Highway Sights, Vietnam: On foot, taking up one lane on a highway and jumping to the horns going off from every car/bike that passes.
Photo by ccdoh1

Dalat Central Market, Dalat, Vietnam: I took this shot from the upstairs, prepared food level. I spent hours at this market — the produce is shown here, and there was [...]


Vietnam

Posted by Pktan on Apr 3rd, 2009
File Under: General

Vietnam Introduction
Vietnam is a country that’s filled with beaches, friendly people and lots of great food! It is also a country where traditions meet modernizations. From the bustling streets of Hanoi and Saigon, to the terraced rice fields.
Vietnam is a very diversified country to say the least, when you travel through this amazing country, [...]


South Vietnam

Posted by Pktan on Mar 31st, 2009
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South Vietnam covers the Mekong Delta and the area around Saigon (Ho Chi Minh). The key destinations for tourists in the south are:
Mekong Delta – Rated as one of the largest delta in the world, which is renowned for its richness, and responsible for Vietnam’s rice demand, and home to Vietnam’s famous floating market and [...]


Best time to visit Vietnam

Posted by Pktan on Mar 26th, 2009
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With a surface stretching more than 1,800 km up the eastern shore, and a widespread differences in the altitude, Vietnam is a country of vast climate variations in different regions – North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Central Vietnam. Thus you can travel to Vietnam all year round, there’s always a nice weather in any of [...]