Here are some miscellaneous photos I took during our visit to Việt Nam.

Aerial Tram to Fan Si Pan. Click on image to view in larger size and see the tram cables and cars in the middle of the picture.
Fansipan Legend is an aerial tram completed at the beginning of 2016. It allows people to go from the town of Sa Pa to the top of mount Fan Si Pan, without having to make an arduous and dangerous climb sometimes lasting several days.
The Water Puppet Theater is a tourist trap that some say is not worth going to. It is, however, housed in a building where the Tự Lực Văn Đoàn group used to meet. In the 1930’s Tự Lực Văn Đoàn (Self-Help Literary Group) started modern Vietnamese journalism and authored widely popular novels aimed at the mass market of Vietnamese thirsty for modern ideals and ideas.
Both the French colonial government and, after 1945, the Vietnamese communists tried to suppress and eliminate Tự Lực Văn Đoàn. The communists even imprisoned and killed one of the three leaders of the group. That is why you will never see any mention that the building pictured above was ever associated with Tự Lực Văn Đoàn.
Thank You for the interesting, inside information on Tự Lực Văn Đoàn. Fascinating.
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Hien, loved the parakeet, gorgeous! And the Turtle Tower at night framed with the branches is stunning!
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That parakeet was so gorgeous indeed, hanging out on a sidewalk, just waiting to be photographed. 🙂 Thanks Donna!
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Thanks for the beautiful photos and backstory!
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Glad you like the photos, and thank you for commenting.
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When I visited The Water Puppet Show, it though it was interested, but I could have an idea after 15 minutes, but the performance last 1 hour..
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Thank you for commenting Ester!
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Looks like Fan Si Pan is the place to see on my next trip. The Water Puppet show is for little kids. During my trip to Viet Nam 12 years ago, we didn’t want to waste our time there but they took us to this place anyway 😦
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We were on our own and only took tours to Ha Long Bay and Sa Pa. The Sa Pa tour did not include the aerial tram, probably because it is still quite expensive, even more so than similar trams in the US.
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Stunning photos, especially Turtle Tower at night! And, thanks for the reminder that those of us who have lived in the US our entire lives’ should be grateful for our freedoms and the relative peaceful existence that we have here.
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Thank you for commenting, Jerry!
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You can type Vietnamese tones. Wow. Thank you for very nice pix about my home country ☺ and wish you a merry Christmas
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I was born and raised in Viet Nam, but have lived in the United States since 1975. Thank you for commenting. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.
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I agree not to see the water puppet show. I was there.
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Thank you for commenting, Anh Nhi.
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