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Our guide hopped into a wooden boat and protected us from the sun with her parasol.

Trang An Caves - Photo-Essay

Elizabeth Briel - ebriel [571]

Exploring the Trang An caves. A photo essay.

Destinations: Vietnam
Topics: Travel | Adventure | National Parks | Nature

Front entrance to the Dalat Palace with 1953 Citroen.

At the Dalat Palace guests become part of a comfortable illusion; they are characters in a drama that portrays colonial Indochina as a romantic sojourn, an era of sumptuous and indulgent living in elegant surroundings.

Destinations: Da Lat | Vietnam
Topics: Travel

La Residence. Front view of the hotel (courtesy of La Residence and Spa)

By the Perfume River

Robert Tompkins - rtompkins [4,368]

After languishing for more than a quarter of a century as a tumble-down government-run hotel, the former colonial mansion by the Perfume River has been restored to its past elegance and grandeur

Destinations: Hue | Vietnam
Topics: Travel | Architecture

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Pools are an ethereal blue-green thanks to copper and other minerals in the water

We enter the cave. Perceptions of space are turned upside-down. Our voices echo off rocks we can't see, light bounces from unexpected places.

There's nobody in these caves but us. The only sounds are our voices and the oars slapping the water.

"Put your head down!" my guide says. We crouch in our wooden boat to dodge stalactites.

Ancient natural sculptures sprawl across the rocks, created by millennia of minerals in water droplets

Reflections in the lagoon are disorienting: which way is up?

Caves are lit by these halogen lights, strung along the ceiling with rubbery electric cables.

We sail into another cave. My camera's long exposure captures the motion from our boat. Smooths the rough walls surrounding us.

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