Peter Bergdahl's Personal Blog

Coming home from work, just a couple of minutes from my home i noticed this hot air balloon.

I quickly went home, fetched the camera and quickly walked back to the balloon. Of course i forgot take a memory card so i had to go home again (very, very annoying). Nearly running i got back in time to take this photo hand held at 70mm.

Hot Air Balloon Pictures

The balloon is reflected in Truc Back lake which is near central Hanoi.

Hanoi is both a beautiful city but can also be perceived as chaotic at times, especially the traffic in Hanoi.

I’ve made this short video that takes you from my home at the beautiful Truc Bach lake which is where John McCain was shot down during the Vietnamese was, passing through the presidential palace and the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and finally arrived to the office in Dong Da district.

Walking around the lakes in Hanoi is an amazing experience, it’s so full of life. People are eating, drinking, walking, running and doing all kinds of exercises. Fitness is big business around the lakes in Hanoi.

I live around Truc Bach lake so i walked about 30 seconds from my home, sat down on a wobbly plastic chair at one of the local cafes lining up around the lakefront and ordered a fresh lemon juice.

One hour and two lemon juice later i had taken 86 images on people doing all kinds of exercises, plus a cock fight going on just a couple of feet from my wobbly plastic chair.

I’ll get back to the cock fight in a later post so in this post I’ll focus on fitness in Hanoi.

The first image is of a guy stretching while he looks out over Truch Bach.

Man stretching and looking out over the beautiful Truc Bach lake

Next image is of man doing bench press with weight of concrete.

Man doing bench press with weights of concrete

And finally an image of some guys trying to improve their fitness by doing push-ups on a bar.

Two guys doing push ups on a bar

In the next few days I’ll come back to the cock fight that pretty much took place in my knees. Pretty dramatic actually.