Vietnam's markets and shopping areas are as diverse as its landscape. Commerce happens in a wide range of settings including large-scale covered markets in urban centers, small street corner stands, on the backs of scooters and on floating markets on boats along its many waterways.

Ben Thanh Market is a large marketplace in central Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam. The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in Saigon. Vendors sell local handicrafts, textiles, ao dai (traditional outfits) and souvenirs, as well as local cuisine.

Dong Xuan is a market in the central district Hoan Kiem of Hanoi, Vietnam. Dong Xuan Market is the largest covered market in Hanoi where the wholesale traders sell everything from clothes to household goods to foodstuffs.

Many types of goods, including a variety of meats, vegetables, and other items are sold in covered markets.

Street side stores sell a variety of items, from watches to clothing to pharmacy items. The fronts of the stores are all open to the street. These stores are also selling special decorations for Tet.

In the two weeks before Tet, the Vietnamese New Year celebration, the streets, stores and marketplaces get very busy with people preparing for Tet. Many colorful decorations and foods are available only during the time of preparing for Tet.

Individual vendors bring their fruits and vegetables to open air markets each day. This market is located in Hoi An, a small city in central Vietnam.

A vendor sells a variety of eggs and pickled vegetables in a village market.

Fresh farm produce is sold directly from bags laid out in a countryside village market near Hanoi in northern Vietnam.

A motorist surveys street side market offerings in a market area of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City).

Many prepared foods are also available on the streets. This all-in-one service cart serves pho, a famous Vietnamese noodle soup.

This photo features someone selling pineapples from her bicycle who has stopped to purchase prepared food from a street vendor.

A motorist even sells colorful balloons from his scooter.

Vietnam also has a variety of floating markets where vegetables and fruits are sold from boats in Vietnam's many waterways. Vendors both in motorized and hand-powered boats sell their goods in Cai Rang's floating marketplace.

The Voyage to Vietnam exhibition features a marketplace area where children can role play buying fruits and vegetables or coffee at local street side stands.