Carnaval Ha Long 2012

An event to mark the province's Ha Long Bay being listed as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, the carnival, held last night, was the biggest ever since first held five years ago.

Ha Long puts spotlight on ethnic cultures

Rare pictures of Vietnam in the French-ruled period

These are illustration pictures in a French book titled “L'Indochine Profonde” (Mysterious Indochina) by J. P. Dannaud, published in 1962. These pictures were taken by French photographers like Raoul Coutard, Jean Lhuissier, Kim Khánh, Pierre Ferrari, Guy Defive, etc. before 1954 at different places in Indochina.




A bustling street in Hanoi.





There were two bridges to the Ngoc Son Temple. The bridge on the left was the current The Huc bridge.




A soybean pudding peddler.




Tooth whitening service on the street.




Many Hanoi residents came from neighboring rural areas.




A Catholic man and his small statues.




Playing cards on the pavement. This game was imported into Vietnam from France.




Consulting a fortune-seller outside a temple.




Kids practiced boxing. This sport was also imported from France.




A fisherman.




Fish sauce jars.




A boat racing.




The flood season in the Mekong Delta.




A girl from a noble H’Mong family in northern Vietnam.




H’mong women on an opium field.



H’mong people also planted rice and maize.




A H’mong kid.




A woman of an ethnic minority group in Laos.

Elephants of Lao people.

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