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I Spent 17 Months In Vietnam Due To The Pandemic, And Here Are 35 Photos Capturing The Experience
I entered Vietnam in February 2020 with the idea of staying for a couple of weeks and researching local dishes for my website TasteAtlas which deals with cataloging traditional dishes and local food products.
Due to the pandemic, the stay was extended from a couple of weeks to 17 months - but it was worth every day.
I went through almost all parts of beautiful Vietnam - about fifty cities and towns, got to know the country, food, people, and customs, and recorded it with photos.
Although I came to explore food and enjoy nature, if I were to describe Vietnam in one sentence, it would concern neither food nor nature. Vietnam is first and foremost a country of extremely kind people.
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Soph the Loaf 4 years ago
This made me feel nostalgic! I visited relatives in Vietnam a while ago and every street in the big cities are like this, packed with hundreds of motorcycles.
My name is Matija Babic, I'm a Croatian internet entrepreneur, founder of TasteAtlas.com - a world food atlas, traveler, a fan of photography but also a sloth who processes photos only with Google, and mostly enjoyer of the world.
TasteAtlas.com is a world food atlas whose idea is to promote local food by cataloging all the dishes, ingredients, and beverages of the world, writing down authentic recipes, and listing traditional restaurants. And we are doing quite well in that. For now, we have cataloged more than 15,000 foods worldwide.
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denzoren 4 years ago
Gorgeous landscape! Ever since I watched the Top Gear Vietnam special I've seen it in a different light.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
Ah yes, back when my first account wasn't banned...which I now know is due to downvotes apparently.
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When I began my journey to Vietnam, I had a very one-dimensional idea of it. But when you spend two years anywhere, you understand countless nuances that cannot even be told in a short text.
I didn't really know much except that it was a country of exceptional natural beauty (which is great) and a communist country (which is horrible). But I didn't know that it was a country of extremely and sincerely warm people, a country that is developing super fast. Likewise, I realized the scale of the environmental disaster taking place in Vietnam. The Vietnam you see today may not exist in ten years.
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As everywhere, places you will enjoy the most and remember the longest are those where you will have to step out of your comfort zone. The ones with the fewest tourists, where you will recognize the real life of Vietnam and the good people of Vietnam (the kindest in the world, in my experience), are not a show for tourists. There is no five-star resort worth as much as one dinner with the family and sleeping in the north of Vietnam in a peasant's house.
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Mazer 4 years ago
They can be children!! When I was young I lived on a working cattle ranch, best time of my life! Hard work but so satisfying, especially when one learns young, to be nearly self sufficient
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Tonya Helms 4 years ago
Hmm.. actually, I have to somewhat disagree. I think it's sad that most kids these days are not made to have any type of responsibility instilled in them. The difference in the ones that did and did not really show later on in life. Its not necessarily that they can't ever be children .I mean, I agree with you that it is very sad in those cases. However, we really don't know that to be the case in this particular situation anyway. Could be a possibility that he can be a child normally but only after his chores are done. Ya know what I mean?
Jake 4 years ago
The image does not seem sad to me. The child is serious, pensive, but not seemingly straining, in pain or in trouble. Also, the place must be safe, since the child is walking alone. This might just be a chore after or before school, not some kind of long-lasting job. Hope so. It is a good photo.
Hotrobot 4 years ago
Literally same thought process as the first comment, then I realized we do the same thing to our kids just in a different way. We put so much pressure on them from so young that what "our" (the collective western world) children don't get childhoods either. And this maybe idealistic, but maybe they are happy because they are helping out with family chores and the confidence they will have from having responsibilities even if they look harsh to us, may help them in the future. I really feel like we (westerners) see what the media has deemed as poor/inferior and feel bad about it because we never had these same experiences and more over probably didn't have to do manual labor until teen years so to us this is a tragedy. I am not advocating for child labor, and fully understand that there is absolutely the possibility for abuse, but there is also the possibility they are happy and get to participate in family chores.
I travel constantly. But due to private and business circumstances, it will only be European countries in the near future. The last countries I dedicated weeks to were Norway and England, English countryside mostly. I fell in love with both. It is hard to understand why so few international tourists visit the English countryside, say Cumbria. It is one of the most beautiful parts of the world and I have a feeling it is still internationally undiscovered. Norway is crazy beautiful. Their Hurtigruten ferries, which transports people across fjords and remote places, is one of the most beautiful cruises in the world, although it is not a cruise ship at all. Or maybe exactly because of that.
And last but not least I would like to add, enjoy the world as much as you can, any way you can, while not hurting others. And start doing it now.
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Soph the Loaf 4 years ago
Yeah! it's called Hạ Long Bay. Have you ever been?
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Lj 4 years ago (edited)
I know it's normal for them, but for me: Scary! There's seemingly nothing holding the kids. What if the little girl gets tired or distracted, or there's a tougher curve on the way, and so on... 😱 Great pictures btw. Vietnam and its people are beautiful.
David 2 years ago
Stuff like this is common in poorer countries. You're not wrong. It just that they make do more than we do (me) here in the USA. I saw a lot of similar in the Philippines.
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Cynthia Greene 4 years ago
Imagine living in one of those homes and enjoying that majestic beauty! Breathe taking!
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Ross Yerkes 2 years ago
Thank you ! - Looks like a good place to visit with friendly people and freedom to travel.
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Donkeywheel 2 years ago
Or she threw her camera in the air with all her strength
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suvani subba 4 years ago
Love how the pictures are mixture of urban and rural parts of Vietnam. It's geography somehow resembles my own country minus the ocean. Lovely pictures.
Tonya Helms 4 years ago
Gorgeous photos of a gorgeous place. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
William Teach 2 years ago
Very nice photos, and I appreciate that photographer didn't make the photos all about themselves, like normally happens these days
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing your travel experience with the rest of us. These are beautiful pictures.
suvani subba 4 years ago
Love how the pictures are mixture of urban and rural parts of Vietnam. It's geography somehow resembles my own country minus the ocean. Lovely pictures.
Tonya Helms 4 years ago
Gorgeous photos of a gorgeous place. Well done. Thank you for sharing.
William Teach 2 years ago
Very nice photos, and I appreciate that photographer didn't make the photos all about themselves, like normally happens these days
Lyone Fein 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing your travel experience with the rest of us. These are beautiful pictures.
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