Here is a selection of photos taken in July 2007 in the two cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

Photo description from top to bottom, left to right:
1) Illegally kept bear behind bars, famous for its bear bile
2) 1cc of bear bile sells for 6 to 10 dollars
3) Staff of a place, where this bear is kept, tried to block my lens
4) At the local fish market
5) An old lady was very happy to see me
6) A young woman in a factory working for as little as 60 cents a day
7) A woman selling books in the tourist area of HCMC
8) A war veteran showing his diploma of duty
9) Confusing cable work
10) The wooden poles are remains of houses for poor people,
      they are now being replaced by high rise building in the back
11) The slums of Ho Chi Minh City
12) Reflection of a canal, Mekong Delta
13) Young boys playing in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City
14) Young boy seeing white man for the first time
15) Normal working people's area, they can't afford better housing and       whenever it rains hard, their houses are flooded. Government plans to       relocate these people - they don't know where to go
16) Father and son sleeping on the train
17) One of the many alleys in Ho Chi Minh City
18) River life on the Mekong
19) A couple having a rest from the hard market day on the water
20) Two pigs hanging out