VIETNAM

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Halong Bay

Halong Bay is full of small limestone formations rising out of its turquoise waters

Jitka on the upper deck of our boat

One of the many small islands

Hang Dau Go is one of the few beautiful caves in the bay. During the war, Vietnamese soldiers used this cave as a cover from American bombing.

Even in Halong Bay people live on floating houses

A village of floating houses

One of the valleys on Cat-Ba island - the largest island in the bay. People live in this valley and cultivate rice.

The best reward for our 15km hike on Cat-Ba island was a beautiful view over the hills of the bay and down to the village deep underneath us.

A fishing boat

Sunset over the bay

Sapa

The little town of Sapa lies in 1900 m above see level. Above it is the highest mountain range in Vietnam and below is a beautiful valley with rice fields.

Terraced rice fields can be found in most of the valleys around Sapa

Another view of rice terraces

Rice ready for harvest

Several minority hill tribes live in the mountains around Sapa.  Girls from the Hmong tribe are resting on the top of a hill on their way to their village. They carry fire wood.

Hmong woman carrying her child on her back

Little boys like to ride on the back of water buffaloes

It is harvest time. A girl from the Dao tribe stands above scythed rice. In the back, people are burning threshed straw.

Most of the families do threshing manually

Women of the Dao tribe in their fields

It is better to take a cover from a suspicious tall tourist

Our digital cameras always generated lots of curiosity. Especially when we were showing children their own pictures. It was one of the ways to establish contact.

As the people of minority tribes with their colorful cloths are an attraction for us, in a village off the tourist trail we are an attraction for them. When we entered the village, everybody left their work and came to take a look at us.

Marek was challenged for friendly arm-wrestling

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