Journeys

Everyone here in an old temple is making lantern frames. The complete process; bamboo splitting, shaving into narrow pieces, drilling holes for metal wires, painting the lacquer base and top, forming the outer bamboo supports and delivering them to shops where they will have the colorful outer cloth applied.

Train travelers. Ha Noi train station. The Queen of Vienna with the Empress. Hue Post and Telegraph office. Japanese covered bridge (1590) in Hoi An. Guarded by monkeys and dogs. Tourists addicted to internet. A female tile worker in Hoi An.

Art. Chinese calligraphy. Children in their Hoi An school. Interior of old homes. A bright yellow Vespa with goggles. Women unloading a crate of silk ties. A food pyramid outside a school. Eat your veggies.

Ice block destined for the market. Woman talking on their boats. A barber and his daughter. Ceramics. Baskets. Bodhidharma the angry monk. Night dancer.

Marching well behaved tourists all in a row. Old woman sorting bamboo for lanterns. Street shots. Life Development humanitarian economic zone. Old looms, spindles and weaving tools. Half a dummy in a fabric shop.

Hoi An cloth market. Monk receiving offerings. Fish sellers eating lunch. Sardines for sale. Hue sculptures. Bridge shadow.

Perfume River in Hue. Novice monks study at temple. Art at Hue embroidery studio gallery.

Thien Mu pagoda in Hue along Perfume River. Built in 1601. A peaceful place. Pine forest. Barbed wire overlooking fields of family tombs. The French built span bridge over the river. The train for Hue to Ha Noi.