Girl Balancing Bananas

This girl makes her money mostly by posing for tourists, and has on an unuaually photogenic costume. Beside bikes and motorcycles, we saw a good many women transporting goods this way - much heavier loads than a few bananas.

Hanoi

March 12th 2005
After three days in Beijing, we flew the three hours back to Hong Kong, and that afternoon flew about two hours to Hanoi in North Vietnam. This also is a large city, a smaller (and lesser in nearly every respect) version of Beijing. Here we were greeted by emerald green rice paddies on the way from the airport on either side of a fine expressway. The land is very flat with many rivers and strea ... read more

Asia » Vietnam » Red River Delta » Hanoi

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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