http://www.loleeplanet.com/2007/04/07/northern-vietnam-trip-with-family-march-2007/ The work, sites and interests of Jason Lee and Flora Lo from Kingston, Ontario. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:36:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.loleeplanet.com/2007/04/07/northern-vietnam-trip-with-family-march-2007/#comment-4 YSL Tue, 15 May 2007 04:02:14 +0000 http://www.loleeplanet.com/2007/04/07/northern-vietnam-trip-with-family-march-2007/#comment-4 when i visited the city of Ho-Chi Min more than 5 years ago, our local guide said there are only very very few banks in Vietnam since it is a very capitalist thing, which is against the country's societal and political ideology. So I asked how then they store their money, he said ppl usually converted their money into chunks and chunks of gold and lock them inside their vaults. The banks there were never able to thrive because ppl find it a silly idea because it's too "insecure". I like the photos of boats on the canal with local women paddling along the rice paddies. The one on the right with high valleys on the two sides of the canal looks like scenes I saw in documentaries about the Three Gorge Dam (on the Long River in China) at the SiChuan's end. And these water are actually canal, like man-made eh? that's kind of interesting, cuz seldomly see canal built between mountains, since waterway usually naturally exists between high mountains. when i visited the city of Ho-Chi Min more than 5 years ago, our local guide said there are only very very few banks in Vietnam since it is a very capitalist thing, which is against the country’s societal and political ideology. So I asked how then they store their money, he said ppl usually converted their money into chunks and chunks of gold and lock them inside their vaults. The banks there were never able to thrive because ppl find it a silly idea because it’s too “insecure”. I like the photos of boats on the canal with local women paddling along the rice paddies. The one on the right with high valleys on the two sides of the canal looks like scenes I saw in documentaries about the Three Gorge Dam (on the Long River in China) at the SiChuan’s end. And these water are actually canal, like man-made eh? that’s kind of interesting, cuz seldomly see canal built between mountains, since waterway usually naturally exists between high mountains.

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