Photo Friday – Vietnam
The words usually come first. I pick a bunch of them, then find three or four photos from my horde that more-or-less make sense with them. But it’s Friday, and ain’t nobody got time for words when the sun is this warm, and Vietnam is just so dang pretty that in looking for something to spur some words, I found myself satiated on just the visuals.
So Photo Friday it is. A few from Vietnam, and a happy weekend to all!
Crummy light that day, but Phong Nha is always gorgeous. (And there’s always the caves.)
The sun came out the day I left Hoi Ann
I don’t even know what these are.
At the sister site to where I took the boat
The rhythm of life, Hanoi
Hoan Kiem Lake looks good by any light, Hanoi
Doesn’t have to make sense, to make perfect sense
We love Vietnam. I think I told you that one of our daughters is being posted there for several years. She goes in July.
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I hope it goes well for her! And that you visit and write fantastic blogs about it. Selfish of me, I know. 😉
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FYI, the 3rd picture is one of the gifts the groom’s family send to the bride’s family in the betrothal ceremony in Vietnamese weddings. The box in your picture might be a ricecake called Banh Phu The (literally “husband and wife cake”) or contains dried tea leaves.
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Fantastic! Thank you for the info! How many do they give? Do they buy this whole stack?
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Usually, a full set of betrothal gifts consists of (1) betel & areca; (2) rice cake / Banh Phu The; (3) dried tea leaves; (4) candied lotus seeds; (5) alcohol & cigarettes; (6) fresh fruits; (7) (small) roasted pig. Each kind is put on a tray. Depending on the status of wealth, the number of trays varies but always an odd number (however the number of the gifts in each tray must be even symbolizing pairing). So yeah, the whole stack they’d buy. Usually those things are customized to customers’ preferences of numbers, so in your picture it’s just a sample of decoration 🙂
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Excellent, that is really interesting! I love learning about traditions like this (even if I don’t love the betel nut spit puddles…) 😉
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ah I don’t like it either, and in fact no one actually eat that anymore, just something so traditional that can’t be replaced (but who knows what it will be in several decades?) 🙂
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That image of Hoan Kiem lake is so dreamy ^_^
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It’s a dreamy place, for sure! Great for people watching and talking to locals.
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beautiful pictures
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Thank you! It’s easy in such a beautiful country.
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The photo of Phong Nha is so peaceful and the pic of Hoan Kiem is so magical. Liked! 🙂
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Thank you! Cam on! (sorry, my keyboard doesn’t have the right letters)
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