Pictures Only Please!

[van_guy]

 Michel wrote:
Ah I'm surprised, I thought rainy season was now, just like in Southern Thailand. Great to hear about the picture opportunities, I like traditional costumes when it's not wear only for the tourists. Indeed, usually women are more traditional in their clothing, and the older the more. I'll probably go to China this year, than Viet Nam next year, with a quick hoping minimum to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.  

no it rains very little this time of year.
yeah for the most part people here are quite ok with getting picture taken.
i really enjoyed a city called dun huang - it is in   the far west of china - look up
vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogao_Caves
they were spectacular...

i hope to go to angkor wat in august - i'll let you know - but ive herd great things about it.

vg

 

[van_guy]

 purelife wrote:
Wow, those are really nice pictures of the sugar cane fields, Van Guy.

My mom used to buy the long sugar canes from chinatown but they look nothing like those in the pic.  I miss eating sugar canes.  They were one of my favorite childhood treats.  YUM!

yup really sugar cane.
just a spot along the road between hanoi and where i work in the north.
about 60 cents for a 2m chunk

 
 

[van_guy]

 cool lake in the center of hanoi

 


 
 

[Michel]

   
 

[P.C.]

Michel...just watched the Incredible Journey of the Butterflies.  It was so beautiful, it made me weep at the end.   I'm embarrassed to admit, that I had no idea the butterflies had any connection to The Day of the Dead....and I was even once there for this celebration myself.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]

[Michel]

         

[P.C.]

I'm re-running it right now.  It really was informative as well as beautiful....I also didn't know the caterpillars outgrow and shed their skin FOUR times !!!

[Michel]

   
 

[P.C.]

I'm not good at remembering details.  It's in the memory bank...but I can't withdraw on demand....lol

  I don't try to remember....I know it's in my subconscious....and that's good enough for me.

[van_guy]

 Michel wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Ah I remember those pic from FB. What's the name of the lake?[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"]EDIT oh and by the way, since you're here, do you know any good company that sell flight in Van for Asia, outside of Flight Centre and Travel Cuts? First time I'll take the plane from here for leisure, so this time I pay lol. [/div]
Yeah i'm lazy first i have to post picture on FB then here so it takes a while to do new ones.  

I don't think that Orik has seen these ones ..\

I get my tickets taken care of here in hanoi - they can buy much cheaper flying from hanoi to vancouver return than me buying vancouver to hanoi return (same plane same seat nearly 1/2 price... go figure).

Ngon Son Temple is the structure in the middle - it has a great 1,000 year old myth associated with it - dealig with turtles and kings and victory over evil overthrowers etc ... not sure what the lake is called.  it's right in the center of the old part of the city though.


 

[Michel]

       
 

[van_guy]

 Different lake - this one is just across from my hotel in Hanoi








 
 

[van_guy]

 van_guy wrote:
 Michel wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]Ah I remember those pic from FB. What's the name of the lake?[/div] [div style="font-style: italic;"] [/div]Hoan Kiem Lake (first with the temple)
 West Lake (second with docks and fisherman)

 
 

[Orik]

those pictures are marvelous van_guy thank you so much for sharing them. i love the shadows and the reflection in the water.. absolutely stunning. so tranquil so beautiful it makes me so very  jealous and more than a little  sad at the same time...

who is the lucky fisherman... and was he catching many fish . what kinds of fish

is it the snakehead ? or one of these monsters




[h1][a href="vny!://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz6gs5nWBY"]Giant Cat fish of the Mekong River[/a][/h1][span]Attaining an unconfirmed length of 3 m, the Mekong giant catfish grows extremely quickly, reaching a mass of 150 to 200 kg in only six years.[8] The largest catch recorded in Thailand since record-keeping began in 1981 was a female measuring 2.7 m (roughly 9 feet) in length and weighing 293 kg (646 lb). This specimen, caught in 2005, is widely recognized as the largest freshwater fish ever caught (although sturgeon can far exceed this size, they can be anadromous). Mekong giant catfish have been confirmed as anadromous also. Thai Fisheries officials stripped the fish of its eggs as part of a breeding programme, intending then to release it, but the fish died in captivity and was sold as food to local villagers.[9][10][11]

Grey to white in colour and lacking stripes, the Mekong giant catfish is distinguished by the near-total lack of barbels and the absence of teeth.[8] [/span]



 

[Michel]