In Lương Hậu Village (Hương Thủy Town, Thừa Thiên Huế Province), there are some remains of Champa Kingdom existing side by side with Vietnamese people’s cultural/historic sites. It’s about 13 km to the South-East of Huế City’s center. Last Wednesday, my mentor Phan and I visited some of the Cham relics there. We stopped by […]
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Couple railway bridges: Bạch Hổ & Dã Viên
These two bridges link the Northern bank of Hương River, Dã Viên Islet and Southern bank of Hương River together.
Bánh Khoái Cá Kình
Right at a corner of chaotic Chuồn Market, there is a woman, surrounded with people, struggling with a dozen of pans. It’s O Lành (Auntie Lành), a great “bánh khoái cá kình” maker. She used a short stalk of a banana leaf coating the pan’s bottom with a thin layer of cooking oil. She then […]
Sun-seeking on Tam Giang Lagoon
To catch a glorious sunrise on Tam Giang Lagoon, you are supposed to wake up at 3 am. Yes, that was what I did last Sunday. When I arrived at Asian Travel Mate Office on Lê Lợi Str. at 4am, many guests were already there waiting for the bus, ready for the sun-seeking trip. I […]
Cycling to Cầu Ngói Thanh Toàn
Thư and I met in front of Big C in a cloudy morning to cycle to Thanh Toàn Bridge. That was the second time we cycled there. (The first time was in summertime two years ago.) It was raining on the way there but somehow we loved riding in the rain. In the light rain, […]
Mustard Blossoms: a Simple Beauty
Mustard flowers always come with spring. Tiny, yellow and lively blossoms are rhythmically swaying in the wind. They look so joyful and free. Under the blue sky, in the honey-yellow sunshine, they dance and dance and dance until turning into slim green pods… You are invited to watch a video clip of the mustard plant […]
A Garden of Broken Potteries
When my history mentor Hồ Tấn Phan’s house has no more room for both intact and broken old potteries “excavated” from Hương River, he has to leave them outside in his garden. You’re invited to visit a corner of his pottery garden in the video clip below:
Surrounded with floodwaters
When I was a kid I loved wading in the floodwaters although my mama said the floodwater was very dirty and that it was dangerous out there. Now I think flood is a nuisance and no joke at all (People in Huế expect floods twice a year). Early this week, the flood kept me from […]
Rain Oh Rain…!
Here comes the rainy season again… Wet and cold Gloomy and cloudy days To expect When can I see the sun again?
A Feeling of Fall
One morning in rainy season, she woke up to feel something different – something peaceful, yellow, breezy and waltzing outside her window. She got baffled as what she saw, felt and breathed was something like fall season but she argued to herself that Huế had no such a luxury thing like FALL (there are only […]