Spectacular chalk cliffs rising from waters of the deepest blue, white sandy beaches and labyrinthine river deltas – Vietnam is famed for this. A large part of life here plays out in and on the sea. In Halong Bay, in the north of the country, there are 3,000 islands comprising inhospitable rock. If you want to live here you must live on the water, in house boats. Like the residents of the village of Cua Van. In the old imperial city of Hué, the line between knowledge and superstition is still very fluid. For centuries the people here have understood the medicinal effects of plants and animals. Particularly when they have miracle powers, like seahorses. That’s why the people here desire to have one above all else: by hook or by crook! Whether dried, bagged or pickled – seahorses are a panacea. Further south, near Nha Trang, “nuoc mam” is manufactured – a unique and very expensive fish sauce. For the Vietnamese, it is, in the truest sense of the word, the “salt in the soup”. They love their sharp sauce so much that in the 60s when they fled to France to escape the war, they took it with them and stored it in cellars there. These bottles are now as expensive as a good, old vintage of a premier wine.
Vietnam - From The Bay Of Ha-Long To The Mekong Delta
Foreign Cultures / Travel
- Title: Vietnam - From The Bay Of Ha-Long To The Mekong Delta
- Original title: Vietnam - Von der Ha-Long-Bucht bis zum Mekong Delta
- Film by: R. Blank, J. Hinrik Drevs, D. Stamer
- Format: 45', Series
- Long running series: Mare TV
- Production: nonfictionplanet for NDR
- Year of production: 2007
- Language / subtitle version: German
