Flickr user Vintage Lulu is sharing her collection of Japanese postcards from late 19th and early 20th century…
The photoset was dubbed as vintage Geisha postcards, but most of those ladies look like ordinary people (including some westerners) wearing traditional Japanese kimonos instead of real Geishas… pretty neat nonetheless.
The floating village is one of the tourist attractions and cultural heritages in Halong Bay, Vietnam. People have been living in these floating houses for hundred of years with fishing as the main income activity.
The tourism boom in recent years should bring a bit of extra income for the villagers, but to be frank… what they get is only a very small chunk of the Halong travel business. Well, I guess a little is better than nothing.
Most of the junks and cruises would pass by at least one of the floating villages and would probably make a short stop at a fish farm where travellers can buy some extra seafood to supplement their meals on the junks, or perhaps just taking a peek into the basic living of the villagers.
Photos below were taken during my Vietnam trip in July 2008…
Some interesting culture and places in Hong Kong; as featured in the 6th episode of The Amazing Race Asia (TARA) season 3.
Central
Central is the major business district and also the administrative centre of Hong Kong; the area probably has the highest concentration of skyscrapers in Asia.
One of the most bizarre things that I’ve seen during my Hanoi visit in July 2008 was the complexity of the wires and cables which hang around at every corner of the streets; which actually looks kinda cool…
Photo of Japanese Geisha posing in swimsuits (or bath-suits) during the Meiji Era (1868-1912) or Taisho Era (1912-1926) of old Japan…
More pictures available on Flickr [via Japanprobe]
Todd from Taiwan took this photo at the Dengshan Trail in Jhongsing Village. Got to be the cutest bug that I’ve ever seen, bizarrely reminded me of a milk-cow…
One of the most iconic Hanoi features… bicycle fully loaded with variety of fish-traps. Images of these fully-loaded bikes have graced the cover of various Vietnam travel guide books and magazines for decades.
The photo above was taken at the Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi. You know you won’t have a good chance to see this in real life when you can find this in a museum lol.
Would be cool if I could just catch this once in real action… will have to wait until I visit Vietnam again, perhaps years later. Chances are getting even slimmer in future though, as the feat will gradually fade away altogether.
Some bizarre yet amazing works from a Beijing based Chinese artist, Li Wei…
The photos are not photoshopped, but a combination of performance art and photography. The illusions are created with the help of mirrors and wire-cables etc… and despite some dangerously looking scenarios, the artist said that the stunts were done with reasonable safety.
