TO GO WITH Vietnam-lifestyle-holiday-religion-craft, PHOTOESSAY by Manan Vatsyayana
This picture taken on January 3, 2019 shows a Vietnamese man carrying bamboo sticks on a tractor as dyed incense sticks are kept for drying at a coutryard in the village of Quang Phu Cau on the outskirts of Hanoi. - In Vietnam's 'incense village', hundreds of workers are hard at work dying, drying and whittling down bamboo bark to make the fragrant sticks ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP) / TO GO WITH Vietnam-lifestyle-holiday-religion-craft, PHOTOESSAY by Manan Vatsyayana