Hanoi is experiencing the first hot spell of the summer when the temperatures reaching as high as 39-40 degrees. Around 5 pm, local people rush to West Lake to bathe, making the lake to look like a beach.
Many children are taken to the lake and taught how to swim by their parents
Pets are also brought to the lake
A kind of home-made float which is often seen at West Lake
Despite the bathing ban and warnings about possible health risks in the lake, many people still bathe, saying that they have swum there for many years and the water is not too deep.
