As in most of the South East Asian countries that I've visited, there is a huge gap between rich and poor, who often live side by side. And so it was in Vietnam, where a palatial home could be right next to a tin shack. We saw numerous examples beside the road of people living in hovels next to mansions on our 2 hour bus trip to the Delta.
Another notable feature of Vietnamese buildings is that they tend to be very narrow, often seeming just a room wide while perhaps being quite tall and/or deep. I managed to snap examples from the boat. The first picture shows a nice thinnish building (although not nearly as thin as others) that is very close to the tin shacks in the second snap.
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