Portrait:Quan ho singer on travel boat.

Red River tour.
Quan Ho singing is Vietnamese recognized folk music. A group of male and females will issue musical challenges and response. The main topic is about love and sentimetality. Quan Họ traditionally associated with Spring festivals, orginated in Bac Ninh province in Red River delta. It’s one of traditional herigate so it’s widely introduced to forein tourists.
The singer in this picture is working on travel boat on tour along Red River. She travels along Red River from Ha Noi to Hung Yen and back everydays just for 150.000VND(10 dolars), kind of “hard work & low paid” compare to those who sing in restaurants, hotels….

East is East and West is West

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

Rudyard Kipling

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Child

Weather

Boss

Elderly

Transport

Problems

Travel

Restaurent

Party:

Me:

Queue:

Anger:

Contact:

Opinion:

Way of living:

Think of other side:

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Han (Novellus System Inc, Hanoi Office)

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Sapa, 02/2008, hardest winter ever.