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| Philip Game | profile | all galleries >> Vietnam (6 galleries) >> Hanoi | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Come to Hanoi, the only true Ho Chi Minh city for a glimpse of Uncle Ho, preserved for posterity; or join the ghosts of by-gone mandarins to light an incense stick at the shrine of Confucius, a far more ancient sage, in the Temple of Literature.
Images scanned from original 35mm transparencies.
 Goose-stepping honour guard at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum |
 Gateway to Ngoc Som or Jade Mountain temple |
Midday siesta, Hanoi, Vietnam |
 West of Hoan Kiem Lake is an artistic quarter |
 Old quarter west of Hoan Kiem Lake |
 Entrance to the Van Mieu, thousand-year-old Temple of Literature |
 Vendor outside the Dong Xuan produce market in Hanoi |
 Distinctive foodstuffs for sale in a market in the Old Quarter |
 Bicycles transport absolutely everything |
 Hats for sale |
 Masks for sale |
 1911 Opera House (now the Municipal Theatre) |
 Bicycles transport absolutely everything |
 Produce vendor |
 Finished goods at a ceramics workshop outside Hanoi |
 Trainees working at the KOTO restaurant |
 . A Buddhist worshipper at Quan Su Pagoda |
 St Joseph Cathedral, built by the French in 1886 |
 Water puppets are a distinctive facet of folk theatre in northern Vietnam |
 Lantern-maker in Hanoi |
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