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By Melissa Thibault.
Hanoi girl tends a toddler sitting in the front basket of a motorcycle
Hanoi girl tends a toddler sitting in the front basket of a motorcycle
A pre-adolescent girl tends a toddler who sits perched in the front basket of a motorcycle parked outside a storefront in Hanoi. The children are both wearing sleeveless pink pajamas. Older sisters and brothers in Asia generally are expected to be responsible...
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Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi
Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi
Two women sit talking outside a rope and mat shop in Hanoi. Behind them, colorful coils of rope and rolled mats are piled up to the shop's ceiling. The two women chatting, probably fellow shopkeepers, sit on low chairs in casual urban dress, including dark...
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Several people, including woman with small child, look from street into residence
Several people, including woman with small child, look from street into residence
Several people, including woman carrying a small child, look from the street into a building in a residential Hanoi neighborhood. An older child, a young man, and another person stand near the woman. The two-story, French-style building has a cement and stucco...
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Elevated view of vendors, pedestrians, and motorcycles at urban market in Dalat
Elevated view of vendors, pedestrians, and motorcycles at urban market in Dalat
Dozens of seated produce vendors, pedestrians, and motorcycles can be seen in this elevated view of an urban outdoor market in Dalat. The produce vendors have their wares displayed in baskets or on mats, and they sit shaded by broad-brimmed, palm-leaf sunhats...
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Old Quarter Hanoi commercial street with pedestrian and motorcycle traffic
Old Quarter Hanoi commercial street with pedestrian and motorcycle traffic
Pedestrian and motorcycle traffic moves through a busy commercial street in Hanoi's Old Quarter. Stores advertise their wares on large signs mounted over the doors. Apartments, some with balconies, are built on the second floors. Often shopowners' families...
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Rows of motorcycles parked in neat lines in Hanoi
Rows of motorcycles parked in neat lines in Hanoi
Dozens of motorcycles are parked neatly in dense rows along a street in Hanoi. Throughout Southeast Asia, motorcycles are more common than cars because more people can afford them. Motorcycles are the vehicles that middle class families are most likely to...
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Rear view of a bicycle rickshaw transporting a passenger in downtown Hanoi.
Rear view of a bicycle rickshaw transporting a passenger in downtown Hanoi.
A bicycle rickshaw or "cyclo" driver transports a passenger through downtown Hanoi. One of Hanoi's wide, commercial boulevards is visible in the background. Cyclos look like large tricycles with a canopy-covered, double passenger seat in front of the handlebars....
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Front view of empty bicycle rickshaw driven in Hanoi and shoppers in motion
Front view of empty bicycle rickshaw driven in Hanoi and shoppers in motion
A man drives his empty bicycle rickshaw or "cyclo" through a commercial street in Hanoi. The slightly blurred image shows nearby shoppers in motion. Cyclos look like large tricycles with a canopy-covered, double passenger seat in front of the handlebars. These...
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Three men sitting at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam
Three men sitting at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam
Three young men in long pants and T-shirts sit on red plastic stools at a streetside cafe in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. A woman wearing a headscarf stands nearby beside a rack of items for sale. She carries a plastic bag of goods and is either another...
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Woman with grey hair, black pants, and pink jacket crosses a busy Hanoi street
Woman with grey hair, black pants, and pink jacket crosses a busy Hanoi street
An elegantly dressed woman with grey hair crosses a busy Hanoi street. She is wearing a pink jacket, black silk pants, sandals, and a necklace of large white pearls. She holds a dark bag or garment under her right arm and touches her right ear with her left...
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Hanoi storefront displaying statues and other supplies for ancestral altars
Hanoi storefront displaying statues and other supplies for ancestral altars
This storefront in Hanoi displays a colorful variety of statues, dishes, paintings, and shrine boxes that Vietnamese families purchase to decorate their household's ancestral altars. China ruled what is now Vietnam for nearly a thousand years, heavily influencing...
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Woman selling noodles at outdoor market in Hanoi
Woman selling noodles at outdoor market in Hanoi
A woman sits at a stall selling piles of noodles from three large trays displayed at an outdoor market in Hanoi. The front pile is brown, the middle one is white, and the rear one is orange. The vendor wears a yellow-striped blouse and her hair is tied back....
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Hanging tray with stacked bowls of prepared foods sold by street vendor in Hanoi
Hanging tray with stacked bowls of prepared foods sold by street vendor in Hanoi
Bowls of prepared foods being sold by a street vendor are stacked high on a round tray. The tray is suspended by ropes carried on a shoulder pole by the Hanoi food merchant. Customers request and pay for a selected set of side dishes, which they eat with rice....
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Stone statue in Hanoi of Ho Chi Minh reading to young girl
Stone statue in Hanoi of Ho Chi Minh reading to young girl
A monumental stone statue of Ho Chi Minh, outside city hall in Ho Chi Minh City, shows him gently touching a young girl's head. She is looking down towards the book he holds. "Uncle Ho" is recognizable by his characteristic goatee. This Soviet or Communist...
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Two women carry trays suspended from shoulder poles in street at Hoi An
Two women carry trays suspended from shoulder poles in street at Hoi An
Two women carry trays suspended from shoulder poles in a street at Hoi An. Both woman wear conical sunhats and loose, pajama-style work clothes. This method of transporting food or other goods while walking depends on the equal balancing of front and back...
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Elevated street view of houses and closed cafe in Hoi An
Elevated street view of houses and closed cafe in Hoi An
An elevated view of a street scene shows two-story houses and a closed cafe in Hoi An. The houses are painted white with orange tiled roofs, and small trees line the street. A wall menu and white plastic chairs are seen outside the cafe. Nearby on the sidewalk...
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Tile-roofed French colonial style buildings in downtown Ho Chi Minh City
Tile-roofed French colonial style buildings in downtown Ho Chi Minh City
Tile-roofed French colonial style buildings line a tree-shaded street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The central tan building visible is three stories high with balconies and large glass windows. A gated wall surrounds the building. Ho Chi Minh City is the...
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Laughing man in red T-shirt holds small boy in Ho Chi Minh City
Laughing man in red T-shirt holds small boy in Ho Chi Minh City
A laughing man in a red T-shirt and light cap holds a small boy in Ho Chi Minh City. The boy looks slightly concerned, possibly about having a camera pointed at him by a stranger. The boy, who is about three years old, wears a blue striped T-shirt. His hair...
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Woman sewing shut large sacks of produce in Ho Chi Minh City
Woman sewing shut large sacks of produce in Ho Chi Minh City
A woman is sewing shut large burlap sacks of produce in Ho Chi Minh City. The woman's short, styled hair, earrings, and stylish clothes suggest that she is a merchant in charge of sealing sacks of farm produce before they are delivered elsewhere.
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