Mr. Cường’s Banyan Tree

On September 7th, typhoon Yagi - the strongest storm Vietnam had seen in three decades - swept through Hanoi. Humans sought shelter and birds flew low to the ground, but an estimated 40,000 of Hanoi’s defenseless trees were uprooted. The city turned into a cemetery of banyan trees, flamboyants, jackfruit trees, mahoganies, pomelo and tamarind trees, some over 100 years old.

 

Mr. Cường's Banyan Tree from Kate Villevoye on Vimeo.