Images from Cycling Trip Through Vietnam

Rice plants, growing in paddies, here forming seed grains.
Rice was the most common crop seen - and eaten!

A woman doing laundry in northern Vietnam.

There was a surprising number of fancy newly built houses, like the one below.
Usually there was a Vietnamese or communist party flag.

Taking a break from biking; karst limestone landscape of northern Vietnam.

The Amitabha Buddha stone statue in the HCMC/Saigon Museum of History; 
from the Phat Tich Pagoda, in the year 1057, Ly Dynasty, shortly before Dai Viet independence from China.