trippin’

In March 2002, this couple with their traditional cone hats offered backpackers a boat trip with their rounded bottom boat which seemed really unstable. It puzzled me how it was possible even to paddle around with that thing. These round boats or basket boats are native in Central Vietnam fishing villages, especially used on swallow waters, and nowadays a tourist sight, like everything “ethnical” in that country.

In my childhood, I remember the news about Vietnamese boat people. They were, obviously refugees of the war, but also some tribal people living in their boats on the Vietnamese coastline trying to flee the persecution of the communist government. There is still people, especially Hmong tribe, living in their boats.