Almost smack in the center of Vietnam along it’s coast is a paradise called Hoi An. This little city is overflowing with great art, greater food, and magnificent tailors sometimes doesn’t get the respect it deserves from many guide books. Hoi An is worth a couple days whether your Vietnam Holidays take you to the [...]
Ha Noi is the much chiller city to Sai Gon’s blood boiling chaos. Granted there are about 5 + million motorbikes here but it definitely doesn’t feel like it. Most of the hot spots center around Hoan Kiem Lake and are easily walked from there. The weather is noticeably cooler albeit cold in some months [...]
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Sai Gon (Saigon) or it’s new name Ho Chi Minh City is awash in investment currently. The cities first modern skyscraper is almost ready to open and a modern condo facility on posh Dong Koi street. Most of it’s most worthy sites are snuggled safely in it’s wealthiest, District 1. Chu Chi Tunnels (pr: Gu Chi tunnels)- [...]
Travel to Vietnam isn’t complete without seeing Han Noi and it’s French Quarter. The French Quarter is perhaps the most resplendent part of this animated, bustling town. The French architects blessed this section of town with wide Parisian boulevards, leafy green canopy’s, and superb examples of French Colonial architecture. It is also the best place [...]
If Vietnam were your leg, Mui Ne would be located right around your ankle, just above Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Not a hot spot on many travel itineraries like Hue or Hoi An, but Mui Ne houses the most amazing martian like red sand dunes that you won;t see anywhere else. Pair the natural [...]
Travel to Vietnam does not require tours to see the majesty of this country, just a hunger for new sights and smells. Take a photographic tour.
Travel to Vietnam is not complete without crossing the street. Crossing the street in Saigon or Hanoi resembles a modern day Frogger. You hop from open area to open area on the road trying to make it across before you get squished. There are over a million motorbikes in Hanoi, and probably more in Saigon [...]
Vietnam is not currently considered one of the axis of evils but this booming country is still ruled by communist powers. While not to the extent of its communist cousins like North Korea or Cuba, Vietnam’s communist evidence isn’t hard to find, if you keep an eye open for the beloved Ho Chi Minh. Take [...]
Clothes, clothes, clothes as far as the eye can see. Vietnam is known for a lot, war, textiles, communism, and now, hand tailored clothing. Who needs that inferior pret-a-porter when you can have luxurious cut to fit you frocks? Oh, did I mention that it is cheap, really cheap. A women can have a fine [...]
