Friday: Old Quarter
I walked around the Old quarter today. Under French rule, as an administrative center for the French colony of Indochina, Hanoi was built with French colonial architecture style.
Old quarter--this is a moto park
It's, like, valet parking: you pull in, give the guy some money, he gives you a ticket, and he marks the moto's seat with chalk.
Old quarter--a huge tree
Old quarter
The utility poles! They're festooned with hundreds of power and other utility lines--I don't know how anyone makes any sense of it all. I think whenever something breaks, they just string new cable, and leave the old there.
Old quarter--utility pole
Each street in the Old quarter has its own specialty. Here are a couple of shops on "candy and snack food" street. All the shops are for the Vietnamese for their every-day needs; they're not catering to tourists, necessarily.
Old quarter--candy stores
Old quarter--tin and sheet metal
Old quarter--jewelry stores
Old quarter--mother and child
And then I see this caravan of tourists--Germans, probably--coming down the street, each in their own little pedal cart.
Old quarter--tourists
Old quarter--tourists
William Garrity
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