| On the road in Vietnam |
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| On the road in Vietnam |
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| We travelled a lot by car. Especially the part from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City was a long drive, and a lot of people wondered why we didn't take a plane. It would have been cheaper as well! But we were glad we went by car, because otherwise we would have missed a complete different landscape of Vietnam. And everywhere there was something to see: people carrying enormous amounts of luggage, buildings, tens of shops selling the same local product next to each other, and a village further tens of shops selling another product and so on. On this page, we have some pictures of things we saw on the road. | ||
Carrying luggage
How much can you stash on your motorbike? |
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Buildings
They look like they might fall over at a storm. |
Vietnamese music
The music in the car was not always too great: Abba or Modern Talking. In one car there was an old cassette player with stretched tapes, and in the other the air conditioning stopped working when the CD played. |
Hats
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A hat against the sun is a good idea, but Vietnamese women exaggerate: also a clothe over their face and when their shirt has short sleeves they wear long gloves. They say against skin cancer, but everybody expects they want to stay as white as possible.
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Souvenirs
We visited a humanitarian centre, where children with disabilities because of Agent Orange make silk embroideries or scarves. |
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Also at other places we saw how souvenirs were made: marble
statues, silk lamps, lacquer ware and so on.
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Relaxing was invented here!
A great country, where the café by the road has hammocks! And the sunny beaches come with parasols. |
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Pink
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 Dragon fruit and water lillies. |
Pictures
Everywhere you can make beautiful pictures like this, with islands, fishing boats and fishing nets. |
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Schoolchildren by bikeFor adults the motobike has replaced the bike, but you still see lots of schoolchildren by bike. The girls are dressed in the very elegant ao dai, a pair of trousers combined with a dress with plackets up to the middle, both of silk. The boys wear a blue pair of trousers and a white shirt. |
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