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Men playing a traditional checkers-like game at Ngoc Son Temple on an island in Hoan Kiem Lake

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

Date: July 2008

Camera: Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III

ID Number: #93C24352


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Take a pedicab tour on a tricycle-like rickshaw, also called a cyclo, through the old section of the city

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Vietnamese girl with full-face mask, more for protection from the sun than airborne pollution. Light-colored skin is prized.

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Conical straw hats, also called a sedge hat or coolie hat, offer protection from the rain, and especially the sun

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Metal racks for sale in Hanoi's old quarter shopping district

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Conical hats, also called a sedge hat or coolie hat, offer protection from the rain, and especially the sun

conical-hat-hanoi

Woman carrying flowers and wearing a conical hat, which offers sun and rain protection

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Woman carrying two baskets balanced on a wooden pole and wearing a conical hat, which offers sun and rain protection

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Children waiting to be picked up from school

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Front desk attendant at the Hanoi Sofitel Metropole, who walks you to your room

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Vietnam has such high inflation, caused by government printing too many 'dong,' that stickers with new prices are placed on menus. This one was altered multiple times.

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Hanoi scooters waiting at stop light

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Blocky, Stalinist mausoleum of embalmed Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, or Uncle Ho, the Communist-directed subject of a fierce national personality cult

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Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh's underground bunker, near his onetime home on the grounds of the Hanoi presidential palace

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Blocky, Stalinist tomb of embalmed Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, built by Communists against his wishes. He preferred cremation: 'it saves farmland.'

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Cooked dog meat in street-side restaurant, usually eaten toward the end of the lunar month for luck, and usually by men to increase sexual potency.

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Lively, vibrant food market in Hanoi

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Vietnamese girls at Ngoc Son Temple on the Hoan Kiem Lake in central Hanoi

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Older men playing a checkers-like game at Ngoc Son Temple on an island in Hoan Kiem Lake

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Communist North Vietnam won when the south fell in 1975. But capitalism eventually triumphs, with Kentucky Fried Chicken, HSBC, Olympus, Canon, present.

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Trendy, well-dressed Vietnamese girls in park in central Hanoi, a far cry from the back-breaking work on rice paddies just a few miles outside the city

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Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh lived in this modest home, albeit on a sprawling estate that was also home to a palace

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Cooked dog meat at restaurant in Hanoi. One common dish is 'thit cho hap,' or steamed dog. Other options include grilled dog, or fried dog in lemongrass and chili peppers.

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Men playing a traditional checkers-like game at Ngoc Son Temple on an island in Hoan Kiem Lake