Not a tale of two cities, but a tale of two completely different experiences in Saigon. Our morning was spent visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels, about 1 3/4 hours outside the city. This is a sequence of over 75 miles of tunnels that date to the French War and that were used extensively by theContinue reading “Day Six – Vietnam War-era Tunnels and an Exhilarating Saigon Experience”
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Day Five – Immersion in Saigon
It was a relatively early morning in Saigon when we took our rickshaw ride to see how the city wakes up; the population seems to be somewhere between 10m and 15m (it was about 3m in 1975 when the Vietnam War ended), making it the largest city in the country, with something like 6m scooters/motorbikes. Continue reading “Day Five – Immersion in Saigon”
Days 3 & 4 on Ha Long Bay
We started out around 8:30 a.m. on a two-hour drive east of Hanoi to Ha Long Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that sits in the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin. The Bay is made up of over 1,900 islands, jungle-covered limestone formations – named karsts – that, in some cases, appear toContinue reading “Days 3 & 4 on Ha Long Bay”
Day Two – Hanoi
A few little tidbits about Vietnam – it’s a country of 100m people, more than twice the population it was in 1975 at the end of the war. That means it’s pretty young, and the stat I’ve heard is that 65% of the population is younger than 35. So – for many of them, theContinue reading “Day Two – Hanoi”
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