December, 1996
Ha Long Bay Children On Boat Approach Tourists
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Where ever cruise boats gathered to visit a particular island in Ha Long Bay or to stop awhile for the passengers to enjoy a spectacular view, then so too would gather some of the local people in their boats; Hawkers hoping to sell their wares to the Ha Long Bay visitors. Biscuits and rice cakes, cigarettes and chewing gum, picture postcards and maps of Ha Long Bay, were part of their stock, and perhaps more appropriate for the location, pieces of sea coral. Quite young children would be involved in the selling perhaps on the basis that it was less easy to refuse a child's patter. You didn't have to be able to understand them.
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Maps Of Ha Long Bay Sold On Promenade
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Returning from our second cruise in Ha Long Bay we disembarked down our rickety gang plank onto the shore, then up steps to the promenade to be met by a group of Ha Long Bay women, selling whatever they could. With admirable eagerness they displayed their cards, maps of Ha Long Bay and trinkets, and spoke a few words of English or French, but even when all this resulted in no sale, their attitude to the tourists did not change, nor the warmth of their smiles.
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