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You can feel a bit like a sheep on some tourist trails. In Vietnam I have seen some of the most dangerous driving ever! It's still worth hiring a motorbike and doing your own exploring though!
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Vietnam offers an opportunity to see a country of traditional charm and rare beauty rapidly opening up to the outside world.
Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels
100 Reviews My wife and her mother went shopping, so my 7-year old daughter and I took a half-day bus tour out to the Cu Chi tunnels, where they have wartime tunnels left over you can crawl through, a display of...
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113 Reviews This is market for rich people or foriegner. yes of course they always start at a high price everythign here is overpriced for tourist. Just try to have fun talking them down. You don't have to be...
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72 Reviews Saigon Night Market is not just for lovers, for those who like to bring his family here to eat, shop and walk around at night ... this place is also a place to meet friends for a long meet, just food,...
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29 Reviews This is a nice store near our hotel. Apparently, visiting foreign dignitaries buy their Aodais here. Aodai, the traditional Vietnamese dress. Silk is best. For the quality, the prices here are quite...
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80 Reviews Number 1 yellow - like a red bull but not carbonated and without the foul aftertaste Number 1 red - Strawberry Number 1 "black" - cola ( they will tell you it doens't exist but I have had it) Number 1...
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56 Reviews if you get a good taxi driver - one that gets you to your destination efficiently and seems to try hard, maybe will stop the meter for you to pick up something etc. You can ask him for his cell...
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37 Reviews I have just dined at this restaurant (29/12/2011) and want you to know how awful it was both in terms of food and service. I ordered a beer and beef skewers with rice. The beer was served in a boiling...
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16 Reviews Absolute MAJOR rubbisdh! Got charged entrance fee for what is effectively a freelance-hooker pick-up joint. Oh, but u get a free 'can' of warm beer for that entrance price!!!! Doormen were idiots and...
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23 Reviews Saigon Many times while travelling in and through Vietnam and Cambodia I have chosen to use The Mailinh Express Bus Company. I found them very handy to where I was in Saigon in Pham Ngu Lao area...
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5 Reviews and 428 Opinions All rooms offer pool of City views with full luxury amenities. As true sense 5- Star hotel, it is...
71 Reviews You absolutely must go to a Water Puppet Show (mua roi nuoc) when you are in Hanoi...At the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre you'll see a traditional art form which is unique to Hanoi and northern...
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106 Reviews The Hoam kiem lake is one of the nicest parts of Hanoi in my opinion. it´s one of the many lakes in Hanoi and it´s located right next to the old part of town. You have the charming little "turtle...
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5 Reviews and 710 Opinions I booked our family sized room for 2 adults and our teenage daughter direct with the hotel from...
47 Reviews This is a very chic and cool shop, situated near Hanoi's most happening district (where Vincom Towers stand). It caters to young women's needs of finding a beautiful garment of fine quality at a...
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4 Reviews and 438 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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we took a local bus in Hanoi and the guy told us to wait for my change. then i asked again and he smiled at me making me understand that i had to wait more. at...
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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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A narrow land with a bit of everything

Vietnam is a country which recently opened to tourism, but has developed a lot in the last few years. Some friends of mine came not long ago and told me it was very virgin, no tourists at all... I...
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Vietnam is a poor country, but a great one. Factory workers earn no more than $50 per month, waitresses $40. Yet, people still keep on smiling: all 80 million of them. The country has a turbulent...
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Please browse through this Vietnam page/tips in "Author’s Order". My journey in Vietnam is basically moving from south (Saigon) to northward (Hanoi-Halong). Until or unless I specified a new...
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Vietnam – Gets my vote for the Top Travel Destination in 2003 Now is the perfect time to visit Vietnam. The tourist infrastructure is in place so tourists have easy access to transportation,...
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Vietnam first came into my consciousness as a boy during the conflict between the north and south of what was explained as a divided country. All I knew was my older brother joined the reserves and......
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