VietNamNet Bridge – Travelling throughout the Northwest region, Dutch photographer Mick Palarczyk took photographs of the land and the people.
Beautiful scenery in Tam Duong, Lai Chau.
Black Dao women in
Tam Duong with complex hairstyles. Children’s hats decorated with coins,
believed to have the ability to dispel evil spirits.
Two H’mong girls at the Bac Ha Fair, Lao Cai.
This giant “butterfly”, dress of a Hmong woman, airs out on a fence in a village on the Chay riverbank.
Hmong Hoa women in Bac Ha.
Lac Village in Mai Chau (Hoa Binh), surrounded by rice fields in a romantic valley.
A stilt house of the White Thai people in Lac Village.
The road in the village of White Thai people in Mai Chau.
Black Thai women bathe their children near Nam La River, Son La.
The “water wheel” in the Nam La River.
The Black Thai people build an irrigation dam to take water from the Nam La River.
A herd of buffaloes crossing the Nam La River.
Sun-shaped amulet mounted on a water wheel in the Nam La River.
Transporting bamboo in Son La.
A village in the valley in Son La.
A Black Thai girl in Son La.
A White Hmong girl practice crossbow in Tuan Giao, Dien Bien.
Sowing in the valley of Nam Muc, Lai Chau.
A riverbank village of the White Thai people in Lai Chau.
Houses on stilts of the Hmong people scattered in the valley of Nam Muc.
Hang Tom Bridge spanning the Da River in Lai Chau.
The peaks in Lai Chau.
Red Dao women selling brocade in Sapa, Lao Cai.
Black Hmong girls in Ta Van village, Sapa.
Black Hmong people working on terraces in Sapa.
Earrings of Black Hmong women.
The villages in Muong Hoa valley, Sapa.
Muong Hoa River near the road to Lao Chai village, Sapa.
The May Bridge crossing the Muong Hoa River.
A boy sitting next to a fish drying frame in Yen Bai.
Kien Thuc