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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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Check out this guy's blog. www.vonallmen.tv/simon/blog4.htmlApparently, my colleagues have the same sentiment after their recent trip to Saigon Factory Outlet. Taxi drivers are getting from bad to worse in HCMC these days. Far more accidents than compared to the past and more incidents of ripping tourist off and getting them to wrong location. So, travellers beware.
Hi There October or november the weather in the north of vietnam is quite nice to travel around, i would prefer day trip to village in the north compare to south mekong detal, company viet vision travel they are ever oganize trip to villages for homestay with good facilities, half day cycling around, cross rice paddy field next day trip continue to Halong bay, or even can cycling from villge to CatBa island over night on boat, enjoy kayaking. back to Hanoi overnight to sapa, home stay optional. it is about 10 day package tours in the north , advantage of that is enjoy seeing Halong bay, cycling in village, home stay, and highlight of sapa there are no company doing this program. execpted vietvisiontravel let check it out enjoy that
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My Son, the Champa Kingdom's Capital, is located about an hour from Hoi An, and can be reached by cheap tour buses or by private taxi. Cheap tour buses cost a few dollars but they all arrive at the same time, so when you visit, the archaeological site will be packed. Taxis cost about 20 dollars and give you the chance to explore the site in a less crowded and rushed way.My Son was a center for spirituality and worship of Champa Kingdom, which had their spiritual influence from India. In the past it would have looked like a forest of ceremonial towers - now, after much of the site has been destroyed by bombing during the Vietnam war, only about 25 of the original towers are left standing.A path leads you through the site and past all significant monuments, although the best one that you'll see is the first one you'll encounter, after walking up the hill past the entrance. The main temple...
Hon Ong is the local name for the French-run Whale Island/Ile de la Baleine Resort. It's a beautiful private island of serene beauty, isolated... peaceful and regenerating, with an excellent beach, pristine waters, corals and coconut trees. Background music: the sound of the ocean. We did not see any whales but at night, in the bay we could hear some really big fish swimming and leaping happily... we never saw them in the darkness, but it made us happy just to know that they were there.There's not much to do on the island, unless you are a diver... but the beauty of it was the fact that, while everyone else was out diving, we had the entire "paradise" to ourselves, to lay in the sun, to swim and - in particular - to snorkel. We saw colourful corals, huge sea-urchins and colourful fishes. It was the first time I saw a clown fish... what a beautiful shy fish it is.To get to Hon Ong you...
About 1.30 from Ho Chi Minh, the Cu Chi Tunnels are part of a network of tunnels stretching as far as the Cambodian border and used by NLF guerrillas to hide from the French Army first and then from the American Army. There was everything in the tunnels: homes with kitchen, hospitals, weapons, food... and each tunnel entrance was well concieved and protected by a rudimental deadly trap, thanks to its poisonous spikes. Tunnels were built on three levels, with direct underground access to a river, and two generations of Vietnamese people have lived in these tunnels.The tunnels were longer than 200 kilometres and air vents were needed... as you walk around, look for the termite mounds: they used to disguise the air vents. Of course the American Army did know of the tunnels, and a clear sign is the bombs dropped on the site (you can see them) and the presence of destroyed US Army tanks......
South of the Central Highlands is this area of scenic beauty, where the M'nong people live. Possibility to take an elephant ride or rent a dugout from the village of Jun across part of the lake and back. There is also the possibility to sleep at the Buon Juin village. Two choices : a longhouse or some small bungalows. There is a very good restaurant attached to the site.The M'nong are like the Bahnar and Jarai inasmuch as they all follow a matriarchal ligne. That is the children take the name of the mother.
This was an eye-opener to trek around the small villages of the Bahnar and Jarai minorities. Very difficult to make any contact at all, and it was only our guide from time to time with cigarettes and sweets that helped to break the ice. Normal, I suppose when you think that their part of the country had been bombed almost into oblivion during the Viet war, where even today the stigma of Agent Orange can be seen on the hillsides. Then the Viet government only really allowed tourists back up in the Central Highlands since 1993, and then only a few. One really feels a certain humility walking amongst these people.
The Marble Mountains are five limestone peaks named after the elements of Earth, Water, Wood, Metal and Fire. Marble has been quarried here for generations, mainly for making tombstones. But, nowadays, there are numerous marble shops selling souvenirs. Be warned: the children employed to drag visitors into the shops can be a real nuisance.The Marble Mountains are about 25 km north of Hoi An on Highway 1, near China Beach.
Just about every tourist who goes to Saigon takes an organised trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels. Experiencing the claustrophobia of the war-time tunnels is seen as an essential part of the Vietnam experience. A section of tunnel has been especially widened for foreign tourists to either walk through bent double, or crawl through on hands and knees. Either way, you get hot, sweaty and uncomfortable and at a certain point you will start hoping that you see daylight soon.At the beginning of the tour, your Vietnamese guide will call for volunteers to try to get into a Vietnamese-sized tunnel entrance that hasn't been widened. That's the one in the picture. Call me stupid. I am 1.94m tall and I volunteeered. Sqeezing in was not too hard, but getting out again was another matter. After, I'd huffed and puffed and taken my belt off, I was eventually hauled out.
Park Hyatt Saigon Ho Chi Minh City
5 Reviews and 438 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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