1. Views of Vietnam B&W Photos By Minh Ngoc From Nha Trang 2007

3. NATURAL BEAUTY

4. Early Morning Mists at Dalat City

5. Dawn

6. Coastal Palm Tree Foliage

7. Chinabay at De-Nang on the way to Hue

8. Waterfalls

9. Vietnam Rainforest

10. Halong Bay

11. Halong Bay Sunset

12. PEOPLE OF VIETNAM Many Generations

13. Childhood

14. Happy Mother and Son

16. A man who has seen much in his lifetime.

17. Grandmother being comforted.

18. The Past and the Future

19. Children

20. Sisters

21. Girl with her grandfather

22. Oh, what he can remember!

23. Beautiful eyes with much yet to see

24. Hoi-An Market Vendor

25. FISHING Livelihood for Many

26. Fish Market

27. Fishing boats on the river.

28. Checking Fish Nets

29. Husband & Wife Fishing

30. Riverbank activities.

31. Hanging out the fish nets to dry

32. Casting a net on the Serepok River

33. ‘Dang’ in the River

34. Waiting on the River

35. Paddling back with fish

36. Ngoc Diem Village Fishing Boats

37. Vietnamese Seafood

38. THE WET MONSOON SEASON The Mixed Blessing of Water for Life Arrives There’s a wet monsoon and a dry monsoon

39. Caught in a Wet Monsoon Season Rain

40. Children in the Rain

41. Rushing to Market in the Rain

42. Boys at Play

43. After the Rain

44. THE DRY MONSOON SEASON Several Months Essentially Without Rain

45. Drought Area

46. FARMING, LABOR, & COMMERCE OCCUPY MANY Work Often Begins Quite Young

47. Old farmer near rice paddy

48. Road between Fields

49. Terraced field at Mat Village – Da Lat City

50. Mother is working in a rice paddy.

51. Plowing the Field

52. Birds in the Field

53. Water buffalo crossing the river

54. Large herd of water buffalo crossed the river

55. Girls with Harvested Maize

56. Hard working child hauling bananas or plantains.

57. Terraced Rice Paddies

58. Green Rice Fields

59. Hurrying to Market

60. Carrying their load down the road.

61. Hard Working Mother

62. Road Side “Inn”

63. A Mother’s Job

64. Salt Production

65. Producing Incense Sticks

66. Commerce on Halong Bay

67. Live chickens for sale in Hanoi

68. Floating market in the Mekong Delta

69. Hoi An Market where the river parallels the road

70. Hoi An Market

71. CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, & RIVER LIFE Not Everyone Lives in a Rural Hamlet

72. Hue Capital

73. Xom Moi Market at night in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province

74. Afternoon at Dien Bien City Bridge.

75. Village market

76. Riverboats

77. Citadel in Hue

78. Ho Chi Minh City from the air

79. Garbage in Hanoi street

80. Hanoi Street Scene

81. Village Market

82. MEKONG DELTA REGION Should benefit from increased international commerce

83. Mekong Delta Settlement

84. Market and docks on the Mekong in the delta region.

85. Crossing the Mekong

86. FAMILY AND HOME Many Traditions Remain Strong

87. Women pounding the rice.

88. Separating rice from chaff.

89. Small kitchen

90. Children babysitting

91. Baby being fed

92. Sharing the old stories

93. Meeting of the Village Elders

94. Children before class

95. Passing on Religious Traditions

96. Going to Church

97. Traditional Worship

98. Children sit in front of the house

99. Grandfather & grandson sitting outside the house

100. SUV and Cell Phone

101. Cao Dai Temple near Ho Chi Minh City

102. Cao Dai Temple

103. Vietnamese Pagoda between Hoi An and Hue

104. FUN, GAMES, & ENTERTAINMENT An Essential Part of Life

105. Elephant Race

106. Friends riding water buffalos

107. Somersault competition

108. Traditional dance

109. Fire Dance

110. Race with traditional creels

111. ETHNIC MINORITIES There Are Many in Vietnam

112. K’ho People

113. Mountain Girls

114. Ma People

115. A Ma mother – notice the rosary around her neck.

116. Ma women take a break with a bamboo pipe.

117. K’ho woman at Minh Ngoc.

118. Children of the Trin People

119. Hardworking Trin Boy

120. Thai village at Dien Bien Phu Province

121. Pagoda in Chinese quarter of Ho Chi Minh City

122. Chinese Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City

123. REMEMBRANCES OF THE VIETNAM WAR They Can’t Escape Them

124. Bomb and shell casings in the DMZ

125. Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh

126. Viet Cong tunnel in the DMZ

127. 21 ST CENTURY APPEAL TO TOURISTS Free Enterprise and Cooperation with Capitalist Businesses are Growing Steadily.

128. Luxurious Evason Hideaway at Ana Mandara, Vietnam

129. Beach and terrace at Evason Hideaway

130. Mama Han’s Floating Bar

131. Tourist with a banana split.

132. A tourist with a 40 kg python.

133. INDUSTRY, RECOVERY, AND GROWTH Vietnam has been undergoing much change in the 21 st century

134. Commercial agriculture – exporting rice again

135. Proposed headquarters for ship building in Vietnam

136. Clipper, a Danish company, signs contract for 10 ships.

137. Scenes from the coal mining industry.

138. Well established textile industry

139. Rolling machine for making sheet steel being delivered

140. Manufacturing Furniture

141. Computers and iPods being advertised in Ho Chi Minh City

142. Railroad transportation reestablished

143. Planned convention center in Ho Chi Minh City