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  • Cat Cat Tribal Village street, rocky, potholed, unpaved, and dirty,  near SaPa, North Vietnam.
    Rural_North_Vietnam_VTN200602-254.jpg
  • Landscape of agricultural and farmland near Sa Pa, North Vietnam.  Horizontal view of overlapping hills receding toward distant mountains and clouds.
    North_Vietnam_farmland_VTN200602--27...jpg
  • Landscape of agricultural and farmland near Sa Pa, North Vietnam.  Horizontal view of overlapping hills receding toward distant mountains and clouds.
    Rural_North_Vietnam_VTN200602--2753.jpg
  • Landscape of the hilly farmland near Sa Pa, North Vietnam.  Expansive vertical view toward distant mountains and clouds.
    Rural_North_Vietnam_VTN200602--2751.jpg
  • Thien Mu (Huong ) Pagoda, on the Perfume River near Hue, Vietnam: a group of Korean men on a business trip are pleased to photograph two elegant Vietnamese hostesses who pose for them wearing silk ao dais.
    Korean-tourists-Vietnam_VTN200602-15...jpg
  • Three "black Hmong" men walking uphill on a street in the town of SaPa, North Vietnam.  They wear traditional indigo-dyed garb and carry baskets on their backs, seen from the back, their powerful legs indicate a life of climbing hills.  Three  others in more contemporary dress, carrying shopping bags, approach toward us.
    Black-H'mong-men-walking-Vietnamese_...jpg
  • Traffic on Route 1, the main north-south highway in Vietnam.  Aggressive and speeding buses take precedence over cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, seen from inside a passenger car going the other way.
    VTN200602-091.jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-206.jpg
  • Glossy rooster considers a swim in the village irrigation canal, near SaPa, north Vietnam.
    rooster_contemplates_swim_VTN200602-...jpg
  • Four Hmong boys playing marbles on a dirt road near SaPa, North Vietnam.  In the afternoon sun, their figures cast sharp shadows on the road. One is about to shoot a marble into a dirt cup.  Two others watch critically.
    Boys-playing-marbles-Vietnamese_VTN2...jpg
  • Vietnamese high school students bicycling home along Route 1, the main north-south highway in Vietnam.  Girls wear white ao dai with sun hats to keep their skin pale.
    Teen-girls-bicycling-Vietnamese_VTN2...jpg
  • Cham towers of Po Nagar (a goddess) near Nha .Trang, Vietnam.  Built in the 13th-14th century of brick without mortar, they were abandoned after the end of the Champa kingdom in the 18th century.  Recently revived as a place of worship for the local Champa people, a minority in the Vietnamese population.  A young Vietnamese woman in blue denim shorts takes an incense stick from the cauldron set up just in front of one of the temples..
    Po Nagar-Vietnamese_VTN200602-051.jpg
  • Red H'mong village woman in the kitchen of her wooden home.  Walls of vertical slats abut each other but show many openings where they do not meet.  The kitchen fire is an area on the floor, covered with white ash..  North Vietnam.
    Interior-kitchen-H'mong-VTN200602-20...jpg
  • Thien Mu (Huong ) Pagoda, on the Perfume River near Hue, Vietnam: fierce and colorful guardian statue figure in ancient military garb seen through an arched doorway.
    Hue_Thien_Mu_Pagoda_Vietnamese_Herit...jpg
  • Statue of the Goddess of Mercy (Quan Yin)  in a Central Vietnam Buddhist pagoda.  The statue of the goddes is dressed in white, with a halo, and has definite echoes of the Virgin Mary in Catholic practice..
    Goddess of Mercy_VTN200602-137.jpg
  • Po Klong Garai Towers, a Champa temple site, off the road between Dalat and Nha Trang, Vietnam.  The towers were built in the late 13th & early 14th century to worship King Po Klong Garai.  Detail of a sculpture relief of a dancing Shiva in a l;eaf-shaped tympanum above the door lintel.
    Shiva_dancing_sculpture_relief_VTN20...jpg
  • Female porter carries a yoke filled with ceramic pots at either end as she emerges from the doorway of the factory in Battrang, North Vietnam.
    Female-laborer-Battrang-Vietnamese_V...jpg
  • Harbor for local pleasure boats near Nha Trang, Vietnam.  A recently-developed cluster of holiday homes on the hill across the little harbor.
    Nha_Trang_harbor_VTN200602-037.jpg
  • Cham towers of Po Nagar (a goddess) near Nha <br />
Trang, Vietnam.  This tower built in 817AD of brick without mortar. This figure is a four-armed Shiva dancing on the sacred bull Nandin.  These towers were abandoned after the end of the Champa kingdom in the 18th century.  Recently revived as a place of worship for the local Champa people, a minority in the Vietnamese population.
    Shiva at Po Nagar VTN200602-042.jpg
  • Man talking on a mobile telephone while he lights incense spiral cones at a Vietnamese pagoda, Phong Thuong Truc, near the Marble Mountain, North Vietnam.
    man-mobile-phone-Vietnamese_VTN20060...jpg
  • Four young girls 8-10 years old washing fodder greens in the  village stream, watched by a fifth who carries an infant tied to her back.
    Baby-care-sibling-Vietnamese_TN20060...jpg
  • Salesgirl in one of the Battrang pottery showrooms holds a basket of items she has just sold.  She is seated in the salesroom, shelves of ceramic items visible beyond her.
    Portrait-Vietnames-salesgirl-VTN2006...jpg
  • Three young women offer incense in a temple at the Champa site of Po Nagar.  The atmosphere shows clouds of burning incense.  The statue on the altar, presumably Po Nagar herself,  to whom they make their offerings, resembles and may also be the Vietnamese Goddess of Mercy, or Quan Am.  The statue is elaborately dressed and decorated, as is the altar.
    Po Nagar-Vietnamese_VTN200602-044.jpg
  • Visiting the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleaum, Hanoi, on a cloudy, rainy, day.  Everybody takes this shot.
    Minh_Mausoleum_VTN200602-316.jpg
  • View looking up the dragon (Vietnamese: rá"ng or long) staircase approach to Buddha statue on the hill at Hai Duc Pagoda, above Long Son Pagoda. The Vietnamese dragon is the symbol of yang, representing the universe, life, existence, and growth.  Its head in the right foreground, its body snakes up the stairs as a balustrade, while the white Buddha soars above.
    Hai-Duc-Pagoda_VTN200602-057.jpg
  • Young white collar worker wearing sunglasses demonstrates the customary Vietnamese courtesy of handing something to an older person with both hands.
    Portrait-young-man-Vietnamese-VTN200...jpg
  • Portrait of a woman boat rower, who takes pilgrims to the Perfume Pagoda.  Head shot, conical straw hat tied under the chin, serious but pleasant facial expression.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-340.jpg
  • Rowboats packed on the banks of the Yen River at Duc Khe village, embarkation point for the rowboat trip to the Perfume Pagoda (Huong Pagoda).  The riveer itself looks like a silver ribbon between them, with a few solitary craft rowing upriver.
    Yen_River_VTN200602-323.jpg
  • Ho Chi Minh's Stilt House, where he lived and worked, in Hanoi.  View of the interior, showing study (left) and bedroom (right).  The house is small and simple, as Ho Chi Minh lived simply.  Its spacial design and surfaces are exquisite and elegant however. the image composition is a rather rigid geometric.
    Hanoi_Stilt_House_VTN200602-320.jpg
  • Sign inside Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang, quoting from the book of Buddha's teachings :  "Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let him resolutely pursue a solitary course; there is no fellowship with the fool."  Dhammapada 61.
    Buddhist_sayings_Dhammapada_VTN20060...jpg
  • Mosaic panel of dragon and swastika at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang.
    Vietnamese_dragon_VTN200602-064 (1).jpg
  • Hanoi suburbs:  new house and apartment buildings follow traditional urban style of architecture, a tall and narrow 4-5 floor structure one or two rooms wide.  Uncollected trash in the street.
    Hanoi_suburb_apartments_VTN200602-31...jpg
  • Sharp and shapely hills form a complicated landscape in the North Vietnam tribal region.  Most are systematically terraced for growing rice, knitted together by narrow footpaths that form bright ribbons across the scene.   The scene forms a complex curving visual geometry.
    Rural_North_Vietnam_VTN200602-221.jpg
  • Asian and European tourists in front of a pagoda in Vietnam;.   The Asians are grouped for a photograph while the Europeans wander individually around the area.  An example of comparative social behavior of Orientals and Caucasians.
    Tourists_Vietnam_VTN200602--0490.jpg
  • Outside a school building in a red Hmong village near Sa Pa, North Vietnam.  Four toddlers and a mother, all in traditional clothing, carry little chairs into the doorway.  Their teacher, in contemporary clothing of pants and a pink down jacket, stands idly by.  The school building is traditionally constructed from vertical wooden planks abutting each other.
    Red-H'mong'school-Vietnamese_VTN2006...jpg
  • Oversize (24 meters high with base) seated Buddha statue at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang, Vietnam, seen against a bright blue sky and shapely white clouds.  Statue was made in 1964-65 as a memorial to monks who immolated themselves in protest of the war between America and Vietnam. The pagoda on the hill below it dates from 1900, erected and still used as an educational institution.  This view looks up at the head and shoulders of the statue, against a bright blue sky and white clouds.  It exudes a feeling of serenity.
    Vietnamese_Buddha_VTN200602--060.jpg
  • Oversize (24 meters high with base) seated Buddha statue at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang, Vietnam, seen against a bright blue sky and shapely white clouds.  Statue was made in 1964-65 as a memorial to monks who immolated themselves in protest of the war between America and Vietnam. The pagoda on the hill below it dates from 1900, erected and still used as an educational institution.  This view looks up at the head and shoulders of the statue, against a bright blue sky and white clouds.  It exudes a feeling of serenity.
    Buddha sky VTN200602--060.jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Interior-Bao-Dai-palace-VTN200602--0...jpg
  • On a hill near Phan Rang, South Vietnam, the Cham towers of Po Klong Garai, seen from a new parking lot lit by street lamps whose shapes echo the shape of the brick towers.  The group of small Hindu temples are still used for worship by Vietnamese Buddhists as well as Cham descendants.  They are built of brick without mortar.
    Cham_towers_VTN200602--026.jpg
  • Bao Dai's summer palace in Dalat, interior.  Villa built 1933 as a hunting lodge for the last emperor of Vietnam in this mountain resort.  Memorabilia of the emperor and his Queen, Nam Phuong, including portraits. Though furniture is arranged as though it were lived in, a sense of airlessness, even deadness, prevails..
    Bao_Dai_palace_VTN200602--0257.jpg
  • Traffic on Route 1, the main north-south highway in Vietnam.  Aggressive and speeding buses take precedence over cars, pedestrians, and cyclists, seen from inside a passenger car going the other way.
    VTN200602--0441.jpg
  • Stairway with dragon and seated Buddha statue at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang.  Statue and pagoda are modern.  Statue is a memorial to monks who immolated themselves in protest of the war between America and Vietnam.
    Long_Son_Pagoda_interior_VTN200602-0...jpg
  • Surf with foam and breakers coming toward the viewer.  Heavy foam in the foreground.  South China Sea near Danang, Vietnam.
    surf_south_china_sea_VTN200602--0545.jpg
  • Life size ceramic figure of a guardian dog, stylized Pekingese type, at the entrance of a pagoda in North Vietnam. It snarls, showing teeth.
    Ceramic Vietnamese dog VTN200602--04...jpg
  • Oversize (24 meters high with base) seated Buddha statue at Long Son Pagoda, near Nha Trang, Vietnam, seen against a bright blue sky and shapely white clouds.  The image shows only the bust and head, radiating calm.
    Buddha_quote_VTN200602-060cardd5x7.jpg
  • Founders (and funders) of a new pagoda in Battrang town in North Vietnam stand proudly in front of the half finished structure.  They wear white shirts and neckties with black trousers.  They seem to represent the increasing wealth of the local pottery making region, which ships throughout Asia.
    Businessmen-Vietnamese_Pagoda-VTN200...jpg
  • Old ceramic water tank with tap, filter, set up in a shop in Hoi An, Vietnam.
    Hoi_An_potable_water_VTN200602--0522.jpg
  • Solitary fisherman fishing in heavy surf on the beach north of Danang, Vietnam.  He stands poised just at the top of his cast, arm and rod outstretched.    Cloudy day, grey sky, a little yellow sand in the foreground; mirror reflections in the wet sand at the edge of the waves.  A feeling of man against the elements.
    Surf_fishing_south_China_Sea_VTN2006...jpg
  • Old ceramic water tank with tap, filter, set up in a shop in Hoi An, Vietnam.  Label:  "FILTER SAFE WATER Drinking Water of Absolute Purity.  British Model."
    Ceramic water tank for drinking
  • Woman praying, palms together and raised before a cauldron of burning joss sticks, at the  Ngoc Son Pagoda, Hanoi, North Vietnam.  Smoke from the incense wafts toward the open door of the pagoda.
    Burning_incense_at_Ngoc _Son_VTN2006...jpg
  • My Son Champa archaeological site, central Vietnam.  Became a World Heritage site in 1999.  Four sided column base set aside for a museum on the site:  each side has a relief sculpture of a smiling, grinning female caryatid kneeling with arms upraised to hold up the top of the base..
    Female_caryatids_My_Son_VTN200602-10...jpg
  • Young Vietnamese woman kneeling in pryaer before a statue of the Goddess of Mercy (Quan Yin)  in a Central Vietnam village Buddhist pagoda.  She is seen from the back.  The statue of the goddess on the altar is dressed in white, with a halo, echoing in appearance the Virgin Mary in some Roman Catholic practice..
    Vietnamese_Goddess_of_Mercy_VTN20060...jpg
  • Life sized stone or concrete figure of a seated guardian lion wearing a fabric red ribbon, outside a pagoda in Vietnam.  A little dog is between its front paws.
    Statue_guardian_lion_VTN200602--0493.jpg
  • Distant heavy breakers and foreground smooth shallow South China Sea, near Danang, Vietnam.  Sharply hilly landscape beyond in the distance.
    surf_south_china_sea_VTN200602--0375...jpg
  • Two modes of banana delivery: man pedals a bicycle cart loaded heavily with green bananas, past a woman carrying a yoke with two pans each with a small bunch of bananas.  Scene viewed from a balcony just above them in the historic town of Hoi An, Vietnam.
    Hoi_An_banana_delivery_VTN200602--04...jpg
  • Thick South China Sea surf rolling toward the sandy beach in the foreground.  Near Danang, Vietnam. The shallows in the foreground glisten invitingly.
    surf_south_china_sea_VTN200602-0542 ...jpg
  • Po Nagar temple site.  Brick pillars of the reception hall, its wooden ceiling vanished, march symmetrically toward the steep stair up to the tmeple area on the hill above.  The structures have recently been repaired and stabilized.
    Po_Nagar_Vietnam_VTN200602--0344.jpg
  • Rebuilt ruin of a cottage at My Lai, part of the memoral reconstruction there.  Reconstruction includes carcasses of murdered livestock.
    MyLai-memorialMy_Lai_VTN200602--0416.jpg
  • A Temple to Shiva with light scaffolding around it and a billboard examined by a male visitor: Italian-funded UNESCO conservation works in progress.
    My_Son_VTN200602--0463.jpg
  • Ten adult Red H'mong women seated in a group talk and sew in a community activity.  Several toddlers stand among them, clearly being babysat by their working mothers.
    Red-H'mong-women-sewing-Vietnamese_V...jpg
  • Vietnamese boatman, wearing a blue shirt, paddles from the bow of a canoe through a canal in the Mekong delta.   Palms trees, mangroves, and other growth lean over the muddy brown water.  Point of view of the passenger being paddled.
    Vietnamese_Heritage_VTN200602-2585.jpg
  • Tourist boats moored on the shore of the Mekong, in the delta.  Decorative motives on the bows, covered passenger area, Vietnamese flags flying.  One boatman stands on the bow of the middle vessel as though waiting for someone.
    Mekong_River_VTN200602--010.jpg
  • Young woman, supervisor, assists a laborer wtih huge barrels of pottery jars packed in straw, loaded on a bicycle adapted for the purpose.  Her arms are outstretched as though to help balance the heavy load on the light bicycle.
    Woman-supervisor-man-laborer-Vietnam...jpg
  • Vietnamese woman oarsman in her rowboat, smiling, as she rows passengers to the Perfume Pagoda (Chua Huong) up the Yen River from My Duc hamlet. She supports herself and a son with this employment.  River, mountains, and other rowboats filled with passengers, visible beyond.  The rowboat is red-painted metal, worn, battered, but maintained.
    Portrait-woman-rowing-Vietnamese_VTN...jpg
  • Memorial statue of a woman holding a dead baby, four wounded men at her feet, dedicated 1998 at the My Lai Memorial Park.
    MyLai-memorialMy_Lai_VTN200602--0417.jpg
  • Four "Red Hmong" women seated in a row on the sidewalk outside a building in Sa Pa, their needlework laid out in front of them.  They wear traditional clothing and the typical enormous red headdresses.  One wears spectacles on the end of her nose.
    Red-H'mong-women-Vietnamese_Heritage...jpg
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  • MyLai-memorialVTN200602--0434.jpg
  • MyLai-memorialVTN200602--0428.jpg
  • Portrait of a woman in her 40s seated in her house in Hoi An, an ancient structure built by her forbears in which she continues to live.  She is seated smiling at her desk; a glimpse into the interior courtyard beyond.  Soft golden light washes around her.
    Hoi_An_resident_portrait_VTN200602--...jpg
  • View of the performance in the Thang Long water puppet theater.  Audience heads, puppets in the water, backdrop, and orchestra on the left.
    Water_puppets_VTN200602-176.jpg
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  • Palm trees looking upward into their spreading fronds on a sunny day.
    Palm_fronds_above_VTN200602--0305.jpg
  • Exterior view of the reconstructed Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang, including the mosaic panel in front with the protective dragon.  One tourist (man) in shorts at the top of the approach stairs, looking around.
    Long_Son_Pagoda_VTN200602-61.jpg
  • Exterior of a hall in the compound.  A visitor (man) sits on the steps putting on his shoes.  The carved wooden doors are fronted by carved marble columns.
    Hanoi_Temple_Literature__VTN200602--...jpg
  • Poinsettia bloom with red bracts extruding into green leaves; six-legged insect, a large ant type, investigates.  Flower structures in the center are still green.
    Poinsettia_bracts_insect_VTN200602--...jpg
  • Black mother goat licks off her newborn infant as it struggles to its feet.  They are in a farmyard strewn with straw.
    goat_mother_newborn_ANgoat200411_079...jpg
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