A two week drive around the northern third of Vietnam brought us to Hanoi, Halong Bay, the northwest mountains, Dien Bien Phu and Sapa. This abridged gallery does little justice to the beauty of the land and the variety of hill tribes in these areas.

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Rural kids with bike
Hanoi Army museum - USA jet parts
Hanoi watermelon vendor
Rural AIDS billboard
Hanoi splayed pig at market
Rural boys
Rural boy on buffalo
Rural buffalo
Rural Mai Chau chicken vendor
Rural farmhouse and fields
Rural girl on bamboo raft
Rural boy on buffalo
Rural rice fields and mountains
Hanoi soldiers in line
Rural northwest mountains
Rural mountains with road
Rural cart crossing main road
Rural Tai girls carrying cane
Rural school girls
Rural Mai Chau woman & fabrics
Rural tea pickers
Rural Tea picker
Sapa ethnic Tai costumes
Sapa construction guy
Sapa Hmong girls & babies
Sapa village Hmong women
Hanoi Ho Chi Minh mausoleum
Dien Bien Phu bunker
Dien Bien Phu museum-French hardware
Dien Bien Phu deserted French tank
Halong Bay overview
Halong Bay rock walk
Halong Bay Hy & Sy guides
Halong Bay overview w sailboat
Halong beach
Halong Bay sailboat
Hanoi bookseller
Hanoi old French citadel
Hanoi art students
Dien Bien Phu bunker
Hanoi Ho Chi Minh mausoleum
Hanoi school boys
Hanoi Hilton' prison entry
Hanoi prison with new hi-rise
Hanoi food market
Hanoi national congress hall
Hanoi old man
Hanoi opera house
Hanoi colorful street
Hanoi skyline
Hanoi street with bikes
Hanoi Army museum - men on tank

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