Photo Gallery down the coast of Vietnam

The Year of the Horse

This is the point where I had bought a new SD memory card for my camera; I was worried that I'd run out of storage capacity.  I proceeded to take about 16gb of photos upon leaving Hanoi, all the way down through Hué, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Da Lat and into Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) but...... well, maybe it'll teach me not to take so many photos.  The card got corrupted somehow and they are gone, GONE; non recoverable so I'm told.  And, yes, I did want to cry.  

I normally offload my photos onto my PC immediately but, of course, I didn't take my PC with me on this journey.  To make matters worse, Paraic took very few as he was relying on me to be the official photographer so only a little help from that quarter, I'm afraid.  I did manage to get some from Karen but I'm still missing huge chunks.  Here are a few that I have managed to assemble so thanks to Paraic, Karen and Myra for filling in where they could.

The original text postings which apply to these photos were published between the 2nd and 5th of February.

HUÉ

Beautiful bonsai

This is a lamp post

Yellow mums on sale for TET (Chinese New Year)

Citadel Wall

One of the gates to the Citadel

Inside the Citadel walls

Cruising down the river to the Tombs

Minh Mang tomb, 2nd emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty,

Street food, a good place for lunch

BETWEEN HUE AND HOI AN

Old American bunker houses at the North/South border

 HOI AN

NHA TRANG

Bao, a sweet girl we met at her family's shop

DA LAT

Artichokes galore

Burning 'money" offerings for TET

An amazing array of shellfish

Silk Weaving

Coffee plantation

The start of weasel coffee (aka weasel droppings)

Silk worms in chrysalis

Silk weaving machines

With a young Russian girl we befriended

Dragon dancing in the streets

Yummy, strawberry season!

The Crazy House

Packed like sardines en route to Saigon