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Vietnam (North By Minsk)

Welcome to Vietnam
The sign says it all
'Y-M-C-A' - One of the original Village People
A beautiful road indeed
Brake repairs enroute
Two weeks around North Vietnam by Minsk
'You gotta problem?'
The MocChau party gang
Boy on the left
The most popular brand
Shot after shot, a long hard night
Stupid drunk


The Wall
'Was that me?'
'I did that?'
Spent the night with a family in Ching Dong...
Their pigs...



The Minsk
Me and the Minsk
Hillside village
Hut Detail

Papaya
village boy

and his best friend
The best section of road
Countryside family enroute to LaiChau
Proud Papa who invited me in...
and black-toothed Mama... (no matter how I tried, she wouldn't smile for the camera)
Camera shy
The daughters
Starting young
A son

Goodbye...
On the road again...


Chickens on the roof



Hilltribe

Looking down on LaiChau
Souffle Tout! Souffle Tout!
Enroute to PhongTho
Where I spent a nice day hiking with the French Trio (Amelie, Bush , Estelle)
We scared the piss out of some locals...
The beautiful countryside
Happy Estelle
and the evening on a mad climb for sunset
missed.
Anyway, Estelle is still happy...
So is Bush
Waterfalls enroute to Sapa


Sapa Market
Bargaining hard with the hilltribe
Sapa Valley
The path to CatCat
What a joke

My 'CatCat'
The real thing...















Spinning the top







like teaching a dog to sit with the treat in your hand


The bad road onward...



Nguyen Binh
From my underground penthouse suite
Officer Nung Van Dui registers in his Ho Chi Minh notebook
Onward...
This man had an amazing energy...



His hut...


Traded hats
Charismatic tea drinker in CauBang
His son
Mama

Great smile
Me and the Minsk
Rescuing the cat from the tree
Halong Bay
Cemetary enroute to LangSon
Ferry to HaiPhong
Welcome to CatBa Island


Where I took a day tour around Halong Bay