“A Vietnamese traffic police officer went on a wild ride in Hanoi, clinging to the windshield wipers of a moving bus for nearly a kilometre after a rogue driver tried to avoid a ticket.”
 

This is the world’s largest mammoth cave and the bottom is out of sight. There are jungles inside it. The roof of the cave fell in and let sunlight in and all kinds of vegetation soon followed. It is one of twenty caves that have been found in Vietnam.

This is what the salt plantations in Vietnam look like. First, the sea water is poured onto specially designated pieces of land. I have no idea how long it takes for the water to evaporate, but with such a heat in Vietnam, it shouldn’t take a lot of time. Then the workers are brought there for a long working day. In the beginning, the salt is raked into piles (mostly men do it), then it is loaded into wheelbarrows and transported to a large pile near the road (this is women’s job). Then, the salt is transported to a plant for treatment.

Vietnam held a competition for people with supernatural powers. You can now try to guess who has won by looking at the pictures of participants, and see if your idea matches the right answer at the bottom of the page.

Would you sip this wine? It’s produced in Vietnam, China  and a few other Asian countries. The most unusual thing about snake wine is that every bottle contains one or several poisonous snakes inside. People drink such liquor in small shots.