sowing seed...

a morning at Cat Cat village, a very fertile mountainous area in northen of Vietnam, rice farmer prepare the land ready for sowing the rice seeds using buffalos intead of tractors...

The system they used in this hilley area is just amazing involved a very delicate natural water supply which maintains the growth until harvest time...

June 2007

floating shop...

Halong Bay, a pride of Vietnamese, jewel of nation...

indeed it is...beautiful turkish colored water with thousands of rocky islands spread like gemstones dropped from heaven...

Legends said that a 'Naga' (heavenly being) has spouted streams of jade droplets that fell into the water of Halong Bay, forming thousands of islands and islets to protect the nation from being invaded by marauders...

Now it becomes a 'must visited' tourist place in Vietnam and being a tourist place, people living there have the opportunity to make some business to traveller's boats parked there like here the floating 'shop' which sells consumables...

June 2007