Pictures of Vietnam: Vietnam's top photo site
Thousand high quality digital pictures, photos of Vietnam with a short description and
maps
of the highlights and interesting destinations.
About the
pictures of Vietnam
To give you the best possible
impression of Vietnam, I have used a combination of the most advanced digital
camera to date (with 50x zoom) and the most advanced digital photo enhancing
software. This has resulted in series of unique photos of Vietnam. These pictures are
carefully arranged in a kind of slideshows. In this way the photos together will
give you the feeling of a virtual journey through Vietnam.
Highlights of
Vietnam
The socialist republic of Vietnam is
a 1600km long, from north to south, mountainous country in South East
Asia. With a population of over 85 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous
country in the world.
South
Vietnam is a region with a hot, tropical climate, consisting of the Mekong
delta to the south and mountainous regions to the north.
Near the Mekong delta lies
Saigon, officially known as Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC),
the largest city of Vietnam with over 6 million inhabitants and 3 million
motorbikes!
80km to the northwest of Saigon is
the town of Tay Ninh, the centre of the Cao Dai religion.
Great places to escape the heat,
noise and pollution of Saigon are Dalat, the city of eternal spring
and the beaches of Mui Ne and
Nha Trang.
The center of Vietnam was historically the
Cham kingdom. This heritage can be
explored in the site of My Son, the town of
Hoi An, and the city of Hue,
three of the architectural gems of the country, each of them a
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
North Vietnam consists mostly of mountains and
the plains of the Red River Delta. The north has a colder climate than the rest
of the country. In winter the temperature drops to a few degrees above zero in
the mountains.
The tourist highlights in north
Vietnam are Hanoi with its colonial heritage, temples
and historic sights, Halong Bay, a
UNESCO World
Heritage site with stunning karst scenery of islets and rocks, and the highlands
to the west with their rich ethnic heritage.
There is also a selection of pictures
of girls and women in Vietnam.
Travel /
hotels in Vietnam
It is very easy and cheap to travel
with the open bus tour ticket from Saigon to Hanoi for only 18 dollar (12 Euro).
This bus brings you mostly from hotel to hotel. I went with the good Hanh
café open tour.
Hotels offer a very good value for money in the price range from 6 to 15 dollar.
English and sometimes French is everywhere spoken and the people are friendly
and helpful.
There are a lot of excursion possibilities from your hotel. So this is a country
you really don't need to go with an organized (package) tour.
Climate
Because the large distance between
South and North Vietnam, the climate is diverse and it is almost impossible to
find a time where the weather is good everywhere.
So if it is fine in the South, it
will be too cold, clouded and rainy in the North, or if it is fine in the North
it will be too hot in the South.
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