Photos tagged as hanoi

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• Date: September 2011
• Photographer: real hotel: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: hotels hotel in old balcony hanoi quarter have
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Restaurant - Real Vietnam Hotel

• Date: 29 August 2011
• Photographer: real hotel: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: hotels hotel in old balcony hanoi quarter have
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The traffic coming towards us at the lights in S Hanoi: we were turning left on our motorbike

• Date: 7 August 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: transport hanoi
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The traffic facing us on the motorbike as we turned left... yes. Across the traffic.

• Date: 7 August 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: transport hanoi
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Peter, Sam and Daisy at the Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi

The most informative, well laid out museum in Hanoi.

• Date: 28 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: family hanoi
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Peter and Sam went home on a xe om

One of the xe om drivers misheard my directions and they ended up the far side of Hanoi. According to Sam, it was the best mistake I've ever made as he had 3 times the length of journey on the back of the motorbike.

• Date: 28 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Tags: family transport hanoi
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Lotus pond, Tay Ho

• Date: 20 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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Bunches of lotus flowers, wrapped in their own leaf, on the back of my motorbike

The lotus leaves are huge and are used to wrap around the flowers to give them protection (and preserve their appearance as petals always fall off the minute you unband them). The flower girls tie the flowers you've bought onto the back of your motorbike or bicycle using thin strips of bamboo and then twisted tight.

• Date: 12 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: transport hanoi
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Lotus flower gathering

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: plants hanoi
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Lotus cutting on the lotus pond by West Lake

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: plants hanoi
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Lotus pond

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: plants hanoi
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Petals are stripped from the freshly cut lotus and used to scent tea

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: plants hanoi
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Lotus, West Lake

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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Lotus petals and stamens being stripped for preparation of lotus scented tea

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: food hanoi
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Collecting flowers, lotus pond, Tay Ho

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Tags: hanoi trans
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Cut lotus flowers laid in the little boat on top of lotus leaves.

The flowers are either bunched up and wrapped in a lotus leaf ready for selling or the petals and stamens are stripped off and the stigma (I guess - trying to remember my A level biology!) sent for production of lotus scented tea. see the later photos of the flowers being stripped.

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: transport hanoi
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Lotus pond

The boat is poled through the water so the lotus flowers can be cut.

• Date: 5 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: transport hanoi
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Lotus flowers lose their petals very quickly

• Date: 1 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: plants hanoi
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Lotus flowers don't last more than about 20 hours and once the petals have dropped, this is what is revealed. Rather beautiful.

• Date: 1 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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Lotus heads without the petals

• Date: 1 July 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
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The vampire butterfly

We had a pair of these huge butterflies (? moth? vampire cousins) in the garden. They had a wing span of about 6", hairy bodies and wings and sat for hours in the shade of a bush. Ugly but fascinating. I'm still trying to find out what they are!

• Date: 29 June 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: garden hanoi
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Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum at sunset in June

I had walked along West Lake and up into Ba Dinh, taking photos as I went. The sky was unusually clear so it was a matter of waiting for the colours. At 6.00 p.m. the lights are turned on in Ba Dinh square and a few moments later, those on the mausoleum came on. These really were the colours!

• Date: 19 June 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: hanoi sunrises_and_sunsets sunrisessunsets comp32
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On his lonesome on so called Lovers Lane, overlooking West Lake

• Date: 19 June 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: sunsets_and_sunrises hanoi
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Sunset overlooking West Lake

• Date: 19 June 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Phuong Tri, Vietnam
• Tags: sunsets_and_sunrises hanoi
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Lotus pond, West Lake

The pond is huge and the leaves are unfurling. I'm afraid regular watchers of my blog and photos may get a bit bored of lotus by about July! they are amazingly beautiful and I'm genuinely really looking forward to watching this pond come into bloom. We have a Vietnamese DVD called "Four Seasons" and one character is a lotus picker, going out at dawn in little boats to pick the buds and then selling them in Saigon. So once they start picking, I shall go to this pond at dawn.... watch this blog!

• Date: 12 May 2011
• Photographer: langforda: gallery
• Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
• Tags: flowers hanoi
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