Northern Vietnam Street Photography in Hanoi and Sapa Hean Kuan Ong
Northern Vietnam Street Photography in Hanoi and Sapa
Hean Kuan Ong
HANOI Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam, it is a country’s second largest city. To me, Hanoi is a bondage city. Probably because I was staying in Old Quarter, on the street the electricity wires are so messy, heavily loaded and hanging just above our top. The city streets are crowded with various kind of people, some wear modern days fashion, some are so traditional that makes you ponder, do they come from the days back then 70s? Hanoi is a beautiful place to take street photo, I was there for 2 days but realized that I already taken a lots of shots, mostly shots are from the street.
SAPA Sapa is the frontier town in LĂ o Cai Province in northwest Vietnam. This town is the living place for Hmong and Yao tribe. Sapa is a highland where you can have a feel of four season in one day. Early morning you feel like spring; and it turns to summer in the afternoon, but when it comes to evening, it is so windy just like autumn; at the end of the day, it makes you feels like winter. The local people are mainly work at the sloping terraces for the agriculture.But for today, a lots of them choose to come out from the tribes to do business with the tourist. They had been modernize along the way, most of them wear modern shirts at home but yet wearing traditional attire when they are selling their stuff to the tourist. As tourism started to grow over there, the local people nowadays are fluent in english. Sapa is a best town to take landscape pictures, it will definitely blow your mind when you see a whole mountain was converted into beautiful terraces. Nevertheless, my interest are still on the people on the street, and in the villages.
Northern Vietnam Street Photography in Hanoi and Sapa