My Best Trip Ever

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Vuong Nguyen February 7th, 2011 My Best Trip Ever This is was my second trip to Vietnam within a year. There are a few day tours to select from. Cu Chi tunnels or the 100 meters or so preserved that can be extended to include some firing of live automatic weapons. I took a trip down to the Mekong and found it just uneventful and just as brown as in Burma, Laos and Cambodia. Cao Dai Temple can be an amazing experience if you can get yourself into the robes and a part of the ceremony. Hoi An is a small town built in old Chinese thick wood structures that span centuries. You can find interesting lodging, tailor made clothes and art at very reasonable prices. The specialty is in the tailor shops and although they are as pushy and persistent as Thailand you can get a much better deal here in Hoi An with top notch quality, if you know where to go and precisely what you want. If you enjoy a beer, well the Vietnamese have some interesting choices. My favourite beer has been Bia Ha Noi from, of course Hanoi. I discovered Bia Saigon, available as a regular item in the South and an imported lager favoured also in the north. The Vietnamese are very passionate about their brand, as they are of their homeland. If Vietnam has the backpacker thing to do, it’s sharing a Bia Hoi out on the street. Bia Hoi is fresh beer, they sell cold in drums, with plastic chairs set along the sidewalks (shared with motor cycles – the sidewalk - of course). Hanoi in my opinion is the jewel of Vietnam. Such a beautiful city full of trees, lakes, pagodas, museums and still a chance to see the late Ho Chi Minh who died in 1969. The Old Quarter is full of blocks and blocks of shops selling all sorts of interesting items including the best paintings available in the country. You walk across wide streets filled with scooters as though you were Moses parting the Red Sea. Keep an eye sideways for

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