Paddy in front of the houses at Pác Bó village
Pác Bó village shop - a rather different architecture
This page shows a range of communities from
Cao Bằng Province
which is in the far north east of Vietnam. From tiny hamlets to the city of Cao Bằng the slower paced life of a remoter area is evident. It is one of the most beautiful and least visited parts of the country with many of the traditional ways of life intact. On this page the emphasis is on housing and types of building. Later pages show more of the countryside which is dominated by the extraordinary wooded
karsts,
a little of which were seen
on the last page.
A village in the norther part of the province
Large storage jars at the side of house
Buffalo at a village entrance...
... passing though the village
Village house on the 'main' road
Mud-brick house with outbuildings
Another end wall of a mud-brick house
Detail of house to the left
In the north the sight of horses being used is not exceptional, elsewhere in Vietnam it is rare. This is the main street of
the district capital Trùng Khánh
The Post Office in the village of Kéo Yên, northern Cao Bằng, and below its sign in the exact format seen throughout Vietnam
The most north-easterly district of Cao Bằng (Vietnam's most north-easterly province) is Trùng Khánh and this is its main town. As is almost universal in Vietnam the name of the district and its administrative centre are the same
Westerners enjoying full sized chairs and table on a hotel roof in Cao Bằng city
A more conventional Vietnamese cafe with plastic stools and folding tables
Lion on duty at hotel
Newly washed in Cao Bằng; a picture of
our Jeep
proudly slipped in
Morning view of the centre of Cao Bằng with the dominant Bằng Giang Hotel
Street seller in the central area of Cao Bằng
A view across the main shopping street in Cao Bằng
The River Bằng in the centre of Cao Bằng City
Looking over the city with some of the hills, that so distinctively define Cao Bằng Province, in the background
Trailers...
On the next page
Picture Posting takes you to a very different provincial capital, that of Bangalore, state capital of Karnataka, in India.
The next page
in the Mosaic Section - Onitsura's Haiku 'Icicles'.
Or go to the contents of the Mosaic Section.
The last page had pictures from the western part of Cao Bằng Province
To Iceland with a page including Icelandic ponies
From Istanbul through eastern Turkey
