Vietnam Colors of life17

1. Colors of life

2. Black Pepper plantation

4. Phu Quoc Island. Pepper plantations of different varieties are found in many places of the island. Vietnamese pepper is exported to many countries of the World

5. The village employs a dozen artisans who manufacture and weave silk into various garments using ancient looms

10. Van Phuc Silk Village

11. Salt harvesters

12. Thu hoach coi or Harvesting schichito mat grass The top ‘Vietnam from above’ contest winner Nguyen Sanh Quoc Huy

13. In the dry areas, because the weather is hot during the day, sedge mats, with natural materials, can help people sleep better

14. The Phu Tan sedge mat weaving village now has more than available 25 hectares for growing sedge

19. Thanks to a stable source of goods, the village for many years still thrives, which creates jobs for more than 600 workers in the region. There are many stages for making a sedge mat. Sedge mat is harvested and then dried, bundled in bundles and then dyed. After dyeing, sedge mat continues to be dried, before weaved

20. Dyeing sedge mat is an important stage that requires makers to be skillful and experienced

27. Vietnam is one of the world's richest agricultural regions and is the second-largest (after Thailand) exporter worldwide and the world's seventh-largest consumer of rice

28. Rice is a staple of the national diet and is seen as a "gift from God”

29. Rice is called ‘white gold’ in Vietnam and has a link to the Sanskrit name ‘Dhanya’ (meaning: "the sustainer of the human race"), the name given to Rice in India

30. In Vietnam, there is a folklore that is narrated on rice. According to the folk legend, in ancient times, rice was not produced but was summoned by fervent prayers by people

31. Rice would appear from the heaven in the form of a large ball in every house

32. On one occasion, a lady was sweeping the floor of her house as ordered by her husband to welcome the rice ball

33. The large rice ball landed in the house when the lady was still sweeping and it hit the broom and then broke into many pieces

34. Since then people of Vietnam had to work hard with their hands to grow rice

35. “Colors of Ta Pa” by Tran Bao Hoa (Tri Ton district, An Giang province)

37. Rice is the staple diet of Vietnam. It is often said that all their three meals in a day consists of "rice and something else."

38. In 2017, Linh An Pagoda (Linh An Tu) built a 54 m high statue of Bodhisattva

39. Linh An Pagoda (Linh An Tu), 27 km from Da Lat city

40. Although Viet Nam has been very successful in both agriculture sector adaptation planning and stopping the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the economic impacts of the pandemic are negatively affecting farmers and, thus, decrease their climate change resilience. The common psychology of farmers today is that their agricultural products need to be rescued. At that time, the price not only dropped miserably, but their efforts in one crop were considered to be lost

41. Farmers tend to their field on the outskirts of Hanoï

42. The Quyet Thang Farm was established in the 70s. Seven years later, first tea plants were officially grown in the Trung Mang Valley

43. Trung Mang Valley - Concrete paths along the tea hill

44. After several decades, the tea trees in the Trung Mang Valley become the main source of livelihood for people in Dong Giang District The Dong Giang Tea Hill is very inviting to both domestic and foreign visitors

45. Moc Chau tea hill

46. Long Coc tea hills in Tan Son District, Phu Tho Province, around 100 kilometers to the northwest of Hanoi

47. Long Coc Tea Mountain © Nguyen Phuc Thanh

48. The Red Umbrella at Moc Chau tea hill, Son La province

49. Oolong tea hill in Sapa Town  by Nguyen Viet Cuong

50. Tea Hill in Sa Pa town The hill is home to many wild Himalayan cherry trees which are blooming The cherry trees were grown by the Taiwanese owner of Oolong tea hill for more than 10 years ago