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VIETNAM SKETCHBOOK
4-18 March 2019
4-18 March 2019
Hanoi. Days 1&2. Exciting culture shock. Just crossing the busy streets on our first evening was a challenge.
Days 3&4. Ha Long Bay. Busy! Portrait of our ferry boat driver.
Days 5&6. Colourful old town of Hoi An. Wonderful but really crowded.
Day 7. Hue. Temples (monks praying), river fish market and our guide who posed for this portrait.
Vietnam Sketchbook. Day 8
Ho Chi Minh City. Gut wrenching, emotional but unmissable tour of war museum, agent orange workers and tunnels showing the war in Vietnam that I remember so well from the safety of my sofas 40-50 years ago.
Ho Chi Minh City. Gut wrenching, emotional but unmissable tour of war museum, agent orange workers and tunnels showing the war in Vietnam that I remember so well from the safety of my sofas 40-50 years ago.
Vietnam Sketchbook. Day 9. My Tho and the Mekong Delta. Motorbikes everywhere and amazing loads carried but this man with his bird of prey tops the list. Fantastic quiet sampan rides in the Mekong.
Vietnam Sketchbook. Day 10. Second day in the Mekong Delta. Superb floating market at Cai Rang - lady selling us pineapple from the top of her boat and buildings along the Bassac River (Lower Mekong).
Day 12. Phnom Penh. Genocide Museum!!! And the Killing Fields!!! Siem Reap next and Angkor Wat - something more pleasant I hope.
Day 13. Ancient Angkor - Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. Couldn’t stop drawing - what a magnificent spectacle and achievement.
Vietnam Sketchbook. Day 14
Siem Reap, Cambodia. Last day before we fly home via Singapore and second day visiting temples.
Wonderful experiences throughout Vietnam and Cambodia.
Siem Reap, Cambodia. Last day before we fly home via Singapore and second day visiting temples.
Wonderful experiences throughout Vietnam and Cambodia.
GOING HOME. Chilling out in Singapore before a flight home tonight. It’s been a busy, touristy but brilliant trip and I’d gladly do it all again tomorrow.