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Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels Ho Chi Minh City
19 Reviews The Cu Chi tunnels are located a little outside Saigon and they are one of the most interesting things you can visit in Vietnam i think. It´s really facinating to see how the Viet Cong digged their...
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Out of Hanoi-Halong Bay Hanoi
30 Reviews On the Tour I did, we were given the option of taking a small side trip with a local man in his rowboat. The cost was very little, so I decided to do it, most people did. BE WARNED, the Rowboat only...
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Mekong Ho Chi Minh City
32 Reviews Saigon River Express offers VIP speedboat tours to the Cu Chi Tunnels - the Mekong Delta - and jungle canal tours around Saigon. This is the service that was recommended as part of "Three Perfect...
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Miscellaneous in Hanoi Hanoi
46 Reviews Hoan Kiem Lake means "Lake of the Restored Sword" --in the 15th century, legend has it that a young fisherman named Le Loi found a magic sword caught in his net. For 10 years (1407-1417) he used the...
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Out of Saigon - Cao Dai Temple Ho Chi Minh City
11 Reviews The capital of the same-named province, Tay Ninh is situated 95km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City and is the original home of the Cao Dai religion which has around 3 million adherents in Southern...
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Out of Hanoi-Sa Pa Hanoi
19 Reviews Located in Vietnam's remote northwest mountains, Sapa is famous for both its fine, rugged scenery and also its rich cultural diversity. It is an incredibly picturesque town and area that lies in the...
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Out of Saigon - Vung Tau Ho Chi Minh City
2 Reviews Vung Tau is a beach resort on the South China Sea coast and has been a favorite - though hardly picturesque - getaway destination for Ho Chi Minh residents. Vung Tau is a party town, full of sun,...
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Out of Hanoi Hanoi
16 Reviews A tour to the Bat Trang Pottery Village was included in My CITY TOUR. This village is located in the countryside and is a famous trade village, with over 6,000 people in 1,500 families living and...
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Reunification Palace Ho Chi Minh City
1 Review On the morning of 30 April 1975 the 43-hour old government of South Vietnam sat quietly on the second floor of this grand building - then called the Independence Palace - waiting to transfer power to...
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Miscellaneous outside of Hanoi Hanoi
10 Reviews Pick a tour from any agency in the old quarters to go out of Hanoi and most tours will have temple visit. About 70% of the population re buddhists. It is interesting to see the architecture of their...
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"Hash House Harriers" Hanoi
2 Reviews If you stay for longer period of time in Hanoi I recommend to join the Hash House Harriers. This group meets every Weekend to go running (yes, you can do this in Hanoi, although the first time you...
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When I went from Saigon to Phnom Phen I took a tour on the Mekong river. I truly recommend this, it was a journey of a lifetime. There are many tours to take from Saigon to Cambodia, make sure to bring a few photos for the visa procedure at the border. But there are no worries otherwise.
We took a cooking class in Saigon. They picked us up from the hotel, took us to a market to shop for the ingredients, had a half day of cooking and then ate what we made. It was the best meal we had in Vietnam and the food there is awesome! It was conducted in English. I booked the class on-line. We emailed back and forth. We made caramalized pork, green mango salad, and Vietnamese spring rolls. We drank beers the whole time, fun! It was just us three guys too.Vietnam Cookery Center, 177 Dien Bien Phu , District 1, Ho Chi Minh-Ville , VIETNAMTél: +848 82 35 872 Fax: +848 82 35 873 e-mail: vietnamcookery@expat-services.com
This village is famous for snake breeding and processing .Snake is a special food of Vietnam. you can buy liquor of snake or, you can taste foods processed from snake(beware, some people are alergic to snake meat). Annual festival is carried out on the 23rd of the third lunar month . In festival, there is an unique dance of snake.
Get off the beaten path.....you'll see so many more of what you came to Vietnam for.Imagine a quiet and calm field of rice patties in you view, a flock of ducks paddling in the pond nearby....and a few water buffalos grazing across the field. The sun shine may get too bright at midday....you could sit down on a grassy patch under a cool shade of the bamboo trees. Light winds blow through your hair....and no horn noises that mixed with dust in the air. Everything is just so pure of peace and calmness. Enjoy Vietnam.
Quy Nhon is a fairly big seaside town situated between Da Nang and Nha Trang.It´s not a big tourist place at all, but the place has a decent beach, a vibrant fishing scene and is in general a very friendly town.I stopped there for the night while cycling through Vietnam and thought it was one of the nicer towns in Vietnam.Quy Nhon has a nice seaside promenade where you have hotels in all price ranges and plenty of nice seafood restaurants.If you are on a roadtrip though Vietnam then this is an obvious place to stop by for a night.
The Cu Chi tunnels were one of the main factors in the Vietnam war and mabye the most important symbol of the war in the country.It´s an enourmous network of tunnels through southern Vietnam that the Viet Cong used to hide in and the americans never knew when someone stuck their head out of the groud and shot at themThese days, some parts of the tunnels are open to the public and some very interesting tours are given there.They have even made a few of the tunnels a little bigger so that it´s possible to fit western tourists in the, so you can get in to one of them and get a little taste of what it was like to live underground during the Vietnam war.They are located about 2 hours drive north east of Saigon and you have many tour s from Saigon leaving to the tunnels.
Cycling the Mekong delta is one of the best things i have ever done. Not that there are a lot of big sights, but this is truly Vietnam without the souvenier shops and motorbike taxi drivers.Get off the main road and in to the rice fields and just pedal along the rice workers, who are not very likely to have seen a tourist on a bike before.
The day trips mentioned are all good.If you stay in HCMC, you could visit Soui Tien Theme park, which is basically an amusement park that is largely based on the culture and mythology of Vietnam. (i.e. You enter a building and encounter Vietnamese gods) I don't know how to quite explain the place, but it was an interesting place to walk around and take some great pictures. They have some simple rides too. The highlight for me was a large alligator section (or crocodile, I don't remember) where you can actually feed some of the thousands of alligators as you pass on a walkway only a few feet above.If you want to go to the beach, you can take a hydrofoil boat to Vung Tau. The beach is not that great but it's a day trip.If you want a better beach and you have a couple days, I recommend taking a night bus to Mui Ne. The beaches here are nice and the inland sand dunes are amazing. Nha Trang...
oh! yes , the local tour agency in Hanoi is very tricky. Last time, I found it out the guide is represented to different agency. But the price of the trip of different agency will also mark in different. Since there are variety of trip in the same boat, some of the tourists paid more but got the similar facilities to go to Halong Bay. My friend who lives in Hanoi, she has been worked in travelling agent in Hanoi for years. So she recommended one to me , it's the reasonable price for 3days 2night which is Youth Hotel. Most hotel located in Old quarters with the service of local tour. I don't recommeded that since most of them are marked higher as there are commission from some big travel agency at all(I supposed). Finally, all the tourist will guide by one local tour guide in the same boat. hm...... I'm wondering that the tourism is not so developed in good system. The hotel 3 stars hotel...
Four and a half hours away from Saigon is a sleepy town with a great beach!Things to do in Muine:1. Sleep on the beach2. Get a massage on the beach3. Drink Saigon Beer on the beach4. Go to the Fairy Stream5. Visit the Sand Sunes6. Stay at the Canary Resort
Park Hyatt Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
5 Reviews and 436 Opinions All rooms offer pool of City views with full luxury amenities. As true sense 5- Star hotel, it is...
Hanoi Elegance 2 Hanoi
5 Reviews and 712 Opinions I booked our family sized room for 2 adults and our teenage daughter direct with the hotel from...
Victoria Hoi An Resort Hoi An
4 Reviews and 444 Opinions It's worth the money to stay and enjoy the beach like in Victoria Hoi An. Price from 150$++ public...
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Q: could someone please help? where can i buy ao dai (preferably well made and silk) for my grand-daughters, they are only 2-3...
A: Loads of places in both cities to buy Ao Dai either already made or to measure. For the small extra cost, have them made to measure and take the mesurements before going...
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