Đảo Cát Bà - TP. Hải Phòng

Biển đảo Việt Nam vô cùng đẹp và luôn là nguồn cảm hứng cho khách du lịch 4 phương đổ về. Hơn thế nữa, nhìn từ vệ tinh với một góc khác với nhiếp ảnh thông thường, đảo quê hương hiện lên lung linh trên nền nước biển xanh thẫm.

For ones who have driven through Vietnam's country side, any single moment behind the wheel could remain long after in memory.

Unique scenes, friendly people, exrta-ordinary landscapes and series of living activities have taken visitors out of the blue, leading them unintentionally to saving precious moments into flashcards.

August, the month of colorful fields from flat deltas to highland villages. One could easily find green fields vastly running towards the skyline in the delta of Red River or shaping like an elevator from the highland terraces. From simple daily clothes of lowland farmers to flowerish ethnic costumes on highland lads, not only foreigners feeling surprised, but also local chaps outbusting astonished.

Here under are some snapshots of Vietnam's country side. This album comprises of two parts: (i) The living in lowlands, and (ii) Higland's terraces.

Friends of farmers

A farmer's lift-net fishing after the rain

The image of Vietnam's rural always goes along with this animal

Cone hats are the most popular signature of Vietnam's rural

Field-side rice threshing work

"Duck cottage", where a farmer's household raising ducks

Papaya fruits symbolize "prosperty"

When the Internet comes to the village

Mid-Autumn fruits

"Jacks in the country side" - a jackfruit tree

Young and energetic

Simply beaming

Mid-harvest chat

Hillside village

A peaceful moment

Sunset in a small village

Vietnamese silk ensemble and the turban

Playin' with rice

Twin mountains

The green valley

Waiting for the harvest...

The other side of the shadow

Where time stays still

Steps to heaven

Path to my village

A hideaway

One of the most beautiful periods in the Red River delta of Vietnam is the harvesting time. Starting from the first week of June 2016, farmers in the whole delta have collected "heaven's gifts" from the fields, where they have put all knowledge, labourhood, and hopes on.

"Golden fields", "Stunning", "Extraodinary" or "Happiness" are words commonly heard from field visitors. Talking to the farmers, RIICE experts have learnt exciting stories such as "how to avoid rats", "how to select a suitable variety for this field", "why do we cut the rice a bit early"... Rice cultivation has been strongly supported by advanced technologies like transplanting machines, harvesting machines, labour-machining exchange. Somewhere, down to the fields, manual cuttings are observed but not popular. However, post harvets processing facilities are still poorly obtained. One could easily find farmers drying their newly-cut rice on the village roads, in the pavement or event surface of the national highways.

Mr. Tinh, a farmer who talked to us just explained: "We have to cut young rice because we don't want the typhoon or wind bust to collapse our product. As it is wet, and we don't have large yard to sun-dry, we need to use the village roads for it".

When the sun is going down behind the village, hanging over the old bamboo ranges, thick smokes start flying from the fields where they just worked on in the daytime. Burning rice residuals seems to be a habbit of people in the country sides. "62-70 quintals per hecta is what we've early expected and we are happy with it. Therefore, we burn rice residuals to celebrate and fertilize the fields", said Mrs. Ngoan, an old lady farmer.


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One of the most beautiful periods in the Red River delta of Vietnam is the harvesting time. Starting from the first week of June 2016, farmers in the whole delta have collected "heaven's gifts" from the fields, where they have put all knowledge, labourhood, and hopes on.

"Golden fields", "Stunning", "Extraodinary" or "Happiness" are words commonly heard from field visitors. Talking to the farmers, RIICE experts have learnt exciting stories such as "how to avoid rats", "how to select a suitable variety for this field", "why do we cut the rice a bit early"... Rice cultivation has been strongly supported by advanced technologies like transplanting machines, harvesting machines, labour-machining exchange. Somewhere, down to the fields, manual cuttings are observed but not popular. However, post harvets processing facilities are still poorly obtained. One could easily find farmers drying their newly-cut rice on the village roads, in the pavement or event surface of the national highways.

Mr. Tinh, a farmer who talked to us just explained: "We have to cut young rice because we don't want the typhoon or wind bust to collapse our product. As it is wet, and we don't have large yard to sun-dry, we need to use the village roads for it".

When the sun is going down behind the village, hanging over the old bamboo ranges, thick smokes start flying from the fields where they just worked on in the daytime. Burning rice residuals seems to be a habbit of people in the country sides. "62-70 quintals per hecta is what we've early expected and we are happy with it. Therefore, we burn rice residuals to celebrate and fertilize the fields", said Mrs. Ngoan, an old lady farmer.


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