Beauty after the rain

25 Aug 2009 • By Stephen McGrath • Blog

Image by twenty_questions via Flickr

It’s been pouring down nearly every afternoon here lately. Then last night an amazingly spectacular lightning display blanketed my sky as seen from my balcony.  Whilst it makes for some wonderful imagery, it is also very annoying and quite dangerous to those of us on the roads.

Today there was yet another flood outside VAS (see attached video).
The ride home after the rain was beautiful. I didn’t rush, and the air was clear with all the dust having been washed away.

As I began to open up the throttle on Nguyen Van Linh Boulevarde, I noticed the sun setting through storm clouds in the west. The vista leading up to the setting sun was gorgeous – deep green tropical undergrowth followed by vast, wet fish, salt and rice fields. Each field contained someone working topless and glistening in the setting sun. The reflections off the water were stunning. Rivers were full, and water hyacinth floated downstream to add more colour.

Grass huts, ramshackle shacks, shanty towns, old machinery, water buffalo and industrious farmers combined to create scenery to die for. Of course, I didn’t have my camera with me (no room in my teaching bag) so couldn’t capture any of this for posterity.  But one of the great things about Vietnam is that every day contains scenery like this.

I take a short break at the end of this week, and the camera is definitely going to be working overtime during those seven days.

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