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Useful tips   Ho Chi Minh City

Useful tips, Ho Chi Minh City

 65 Reviews  Dont go during TET, many places are closed and everyone goes home to their home town to be with family. Its a great happy time if you are vietnamese and are back home with your family but for tourist,... 

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Arround the City   Hanoi

Arround the City, Hanoi

 36 Reviews  The kids here are gorgeous . Always ready to say hello to us westerners. They have the most beautiful little faces. But before I took a photo I always asked the adult they were with if it was ok to do... 

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Street life   Ho Chi Minh City

Street life, Ho Chi Minh City

 22 Reviews  Christmans in Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica The Christmans day all the people walk around the streets in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). But most of them are around the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica to... 

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Out of Hanoi   Hanoi

Out of Hanoi, Hanoi

 11 Reviews  Dear friend, Kenh Ga is a 10km canal in Ninh Binh province - the South from Hanoi. It take about 2 and a half hours drive from Hanoi. There are not much atraction there, you just sit on a concreat... 

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Sights   Ho Chi Minh City

Sights, Ho Chi Minh City

 24 Reviews  This tip goes for any city in Vietnam, try and go for a tour out in the countryside as this is where you see villages and people getting on with their daily lives......the further out....the... 

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Cultural Tips   Hanoi

Cultural Tips, Hanoi

 12 Reviews  Tet is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar. It takes place from the first day of the... 

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Local Life   Ho Chi Minh City

Local Life, Ho Chi Minh City

 29 Reviews  If you really want to soak up local life and culture the best way to do this is walk! Most of the museums, tourist sights and markets are walking distance from one another and I really recommend... 

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Architecture   Hanoi

Architecture, Hanoi

 10 Reviews  Hanoi, being the capitol of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is bedecked with scultptures from the school of socialist realism. For those, like me, who missed the heyday of communism in Europe, this... 

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Transportation   Ho Chi Minh City

Transportation, Ho Chi Minh City

 10 Reviews  Be careful if u are travelling to Ho Chi Minh... they will just simply rip off, snatch your money... especially transportation..... The cyclos especially....... Will never forget they threaten us....... 

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Architecture   Ho Chi Minh City

Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City

 7 Reviews  High Rise Buildings in Saigon District 7 and district 2 are the new construction and most rich places in Saigon. They are a lot of new High Rise Buildings there. Information Name: High Rise... 

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The Cu Chi tunnels

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-- Photos:1. A tank on display at Cu Chi2. Me emerging from a tunnel at Cu Chi, 1995On the way back from Tay Ninh to Saigon we stopped at the Cu Chi tunnels, a huge network of tunnels that were dug over a period of thirty years, first to provide refuge from the French army in the 1950s and then to provide protection from American firepower during the 1960s and 70s.Eventually the tunnel system reached a total length of over two hundred kilometers. It had numerous camouflaged entrances and exits so that Viet Cong fighters could appear from just about anywhere and disappear quickly in case of danger.Some of these tunnels have now been widened slightly so that we Westerners can crawl through -- not recommended for people with claustrophobia, however.We went there in 1995 on an excellent day tour organized by the Sinh Café in Saigon.Our tour guide from the Sinh Café was a former officer of...

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Tay Ninh, home of the Cao Dai religion

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-- Photos:1. Drying incense sticks2. Cao Dai poster in the house in Tân BaOn our last day in Vietnam in 1995, my son Nick and I took a day tour from Saigon that went first to Tay Ninh, the home of the Cao Dai religion, and then to the tunnels at Cu Chi (next tip).I was especially interested in seeing the Holy See of the Cao Dai religion because in 1964/65 I had lived for several months in the home of an elderly Cao Dai couple in Tân Ba. Each evening the old man came to me and asked who exactly would be sleeping in the house that night so he could light the correct number of incense sticks on his Cao Dai altar, one for each person in the house.Well, the Cao Dai Holy See in Tay Ninh did turn out to be a bit garish, but I was still rather moved by it because of having known the old couple thirty years before.Cao Dai is a religion that was founded in Tay Ninh in 1926. According to the Cao...

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Chau Doc near the Cambodian border

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-- Photos:1. View from the mountain, 19952. One of the pagodas on Sam Mountain3. Women weaving mats in the Mekong DeltaOn the second day of our Mekong Delta tour in 1995 we took a boat trip from Chau Doc, went to Sam Mountain and then stayed overnight at a hotel in Can Tho.Sam mountain is the highest mountain in the Mekong Delta (230 meters) and has numerous pagodas and temples which are said to be the destination of religious pilgrims from all over Vietnam.From the mountain you can see across the border into Cambodia. This is the closest I have ever been to Cambodia, though I also looked across the border from a helicopter on day in 1964 on a flight to the Special Forces camps at Bu Dop and Bujamap.

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By train from Hué to Saigon

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-- Photos:1. View from the train in central Vietnam, 19952. Beach and boats, as seen from the trainOn August 7, 1995, we took a twenty-four hour train ride on the S3 from Hué to Saigon.I think it was on this train ride that I met a man of about my age who turned out to be a retired general from the (North) Vietnamese army. He was traveling with two of his grandchildren, and when he heard that I was an American army veteran he was very interested in talking with me.The trouble was that we had no common language. My few words of Vietnamese were enough to explain that I had been a radio operator at Phước Vĩnh and that I had done a lot of interpreting between tiếng Anh (English) and tiếng Pháp (French) while I was stationed in the village of Tân Ba. But that was about it.Some people sitting near us who spoke a bit of English or French tried to help, so we did...

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Hien Luong Bridge and the tunnels of Vinh Moc

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-- Photos:1. A rainy beach near the former DMZ, 19952. Milestone or rather kilometer-stone on the highwayOn our DMZ tour in 1995 we also crossed the Ben Hai River on the 17th parallel, which for twenty years until reunification in 1975 was the border between North and South Vietnam.Now it is possible to just drive across the Hien Luong Bridge without even slowing down, though on our tour we stopped briefly to look at the reunification monument at the north end of the bridge.This crossing reminded me of the once-impassable border between East and West Germany, where you now can also go right on through without stopping.On the northern side of the former boundary, we went to look at the Vinh Moc Tunnels. Vinh Moc is a town in Quang Tri province where the first American bombs were dropped in North Vietnam. In June 1965, after the first heavy bombings, the people in Vinh Moc started digging...

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A Bru village

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-- Photos:1. Children of the Bru ethnic minority, 19952. A pig in the Bru village3. Bru children in the streamOn our DMZ tour we stopped at a village of the Bru ethnic minority.The Bru are one of over forty ethnic minorities that live mainly in isolated mountainous regions of Vietnam. In the 1960s the American army sent teams of "Special Forces" into these mountainous regions to recruit members of the ethnic minorities (known collectively to the French as "Montagnards") to serve as mercenaries in the war against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Here in the former DMZ the Special Forces recruited hundreds of Bru tribesmen to fight on the side of the Americans in the Khe Sanh area. Numerous Bru mercenaries were reportedly killed or injured in the fighting.In 1964 I had a brief look at two Montagnard mercenary bases further south at the towns of Bu Dop and Bujamap, two Special Forces...

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DMZ tour, 1995

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-- Photos:1. Scrap-metal collectors at Khe Sanh, 19952. Leftovers from the big battleFrom Hué we took a "DMZ-tour" -- DMZ meaning the supposedly "demilitarized zone" along both sides of the former border between North and South Vietnam in the 1960s.This was a day tour in a mini-bus. We went to the Rockpile, Dakrong Bridge, Khe Sanh, Don Ha Town, Hien Long Bridge and tunnels of Vinh Mac.To me, the most interesting thing about this day was the tour group: eleven backpackers of seven nationalities: Dutch, Danish, German, Norwegian, Italian, English and American.Khe Sahn was the site of a major battle in 1968. I didn't learn much about it while we were there, but I know from reading that the situation was similar to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. In Dien Bien Phu a French army was entrenched down in a valley while Vietnamese forces bombarded them with mortar and artillery fire from the...

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Tu Duc's tomb

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-- Photos:1. Me (somewhat wet) at Tu Duc's tomb, 19952. House at the pond at Tu Duc's tomb3. Remains of walls at Tu Duc's tomb 4. An old tree at Tu Duc's tombTu Duc (1829-1883), was the fourth emperor of the Nguyen dynasty in Vietnam. During his reign various parts of Vietnam came under the control of the French. In 1884, a year after Tu Duc's death, all of Vietnam became a French protectorate.In 1993 Tu Duc's tomb and palace, along with other historic monuments in Hué and vicinity, were recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/678

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Perfume River

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-- Photos:1. Boat on the Perfume River in Hué, 19952. View of the Perfume River, 19953. Turtle carrying words of wisdomOn our second day in Hué we took our bicycles with us on a boat trip on the Perfume River to Thien Mu Pagoda and the Tomb of Minh Mang. After having lunch on the boat we left the tour and continued by bicycle to the tomb of the Vietnamese emperor Tu Duc (next tip), where we spent most of the afternoon before returning to Hué, a distance of about eight kilometers.

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Cycling around Hué, 1995

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-- Photos:1. Playing football by the Citadel, 19952. Cannons on display, 19953. Tanks and artillery on display, 19954. Reporting the news in Berkeley during the Tet Offensive and the Battle of Hué, 1968My train from Hanoi arrived in Hué at 11 in the morning. I met my son Nick at the Thai Binh Hotel, 10/9 Nguyen Tai Phuong St., as we had arranged the week before.We both rented bicycles and spent our first day in Hué riding around town and around the Citadel.Hué in 1995 was pleasant and peaceful, and it was hard to imagine that a bitter month-long battle had been fought here twenty-seven years before, during the Tet Offensive in 1968. At that time, in 1968, I was news director of a radio station in California, and I remember reporting night after night about the fighting in Hué for most of the month of February.

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