Vietnam
Gimme some advice!
Do you know of any people / places / hotels / restaurants / bars / guides / resources in this country that you think would be unmissable?
I desperately need your advice, tips and recommendations. What's more, I have a memory like sliced slurry, and whatever you tell me in a drunken fug by the Thames is already gone: I need it written down.
Stick your advice in the comments - pleasepleaseplease, and I'll add it onto this main post as soon as I hit a country with a proper broadband connection...
Cheers, me dears...
I'll be in Hanoi, in northern Vietnam in November 2005:
Greavsie says:
Don't eat anything unless it's been killed in front of you.
Mike says:
Hanoi: wonderful place. Loved it loved it loved it. And I strongly disagree with the commenter above: Vietnamese food is almost universally heavenly. Try the rice noodle soup (Pho) for breakfast - you may never want to breakfast on anything else ever again. Crossing the road looks intensely scary, but the trick is to keep a steady, unflinching path; the traffic simply flows around you. Counter-intuitive, but it works.
Gia says:
Before you go get in touch with Our Man in Hanoi (Steve). Vietnam is just the best place in the world. Hanoi is in my top two places (it keeps swapping places with Egypt). The people are wonderful, food is amazing and it will make you feel more alive than you have before. Wake up early and go see Ho Chi Min's remains. It's the weirdest thing ever.
Do you know of any people / places / hotels / restaurants / bars / guides / resources in this country that you think would be unmissable?
I desperately need your advice, tips and recommendations. What's more, I have a memory like sliced slurry, and whatever you tell me in a drunken fug by the Thames is already gone: I need it written down.
Stick your advice in the comments - pleasepleaseplease, and I'll add it onto this main post as soon as I hit a country with a proper broadband connection...
Cheers, me dears...
I'll be in Hanoi, in northern Vietnam in November 2005:
Greavsie says:
Don't eat anything unless it's been killed in front of you.
Mike says:
Hanoi: wonderful place. Loved it loved it loved it. And I strongly disagree with the commenter above: Vietnamese food is almost universally heavenly. Try the rice noodle soup (Pho) for breakfast - you may never want to breakfast on anything else ever again. Crossing the road looks intensely scary, but the trick is to keep a steady, unflinching path; the traffic simply flows around you. Counter-intuitive, but it works.
Gia says:
Before you go get in touch with Our Man in Hanoi (Steve). Vietnam is just the best place in the world. Hanoi is in my top two places (it keeps swapping places with Egypt). The people are wonderful, food is amazing and it will make you feel more alive than you have before. Wake up early and go see Ho Chi Min's remains. It's the weirdest thing ever.
posted by Lectrice at lunes, junio 07, 2004
2 Advice:
remember the CheckIn woman's recommendation of Hue (hyoo-uh) as a great place to visit that not many people know about.
Sapa is wonderful. You can take the nighttrain from Hanoi (reservations in advance). It's a 12 hour journey but the terraced rice fields in the mountains are amazing. So are the local tribespeople, who will try to sell you anything and will probably succeed... In Sapa you can hire a local guide (eg in Mountain View hotel) to make a tour in the mountains.
Ask them about Love Market! :-)
The busride from the station in Lao Cai where you arrive from Hanoi to Sapa is very beautiful. It's best to arrive early in the morning.
Highlights in Vietnam for me are: Sapa, Cat Ba island in Halong Bay, Mui Ne Beach, Hanoi, the war museum in Saigon.
Saigon is sleazy compared to Hanoi and Mekong Delta is misery, poverty and forced organised tourist trips.
Have a good time!
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