Women of the Golden Triangle This journal gives a small glimpse into the lives of various women in the ethnically diverse northern border region of Vietnam.

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

VIETNAM | Sunday, 6 November 2011 | Views [815]

It's a long, hot and dusty day for these women at the monthly district market in Bac Ha, northern Vietnam. The intensely colourful, hand embriodered cotton and velvet outfits they wear are the traditional dress of the Flower H'mong and are very hot and heavy in daytime temperatures of more than 30 degrees celcius.

The Sapa Valley is home to many diverse minority ethnic groups thought to have originated centuries ago in southern China - the Zai, Red Dzao, Black and Red Hmong. Here a rice paddy is being planted with seedlings.

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A Black H'mong woman and her child use this small stream outside of their house to wash their hands. Streams like these are plentiful in the Sapa Valley in northern Vietnam, and are often fitted with small yet ingenious hydro-electric generators to power single light bulbs in dwellings.

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Women of the Golden Triangle This journal gives a small glimpse into the lives of various women in the ethnically diverse northern border region of Vietnam.

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

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