There are few countries I’ve loved as much as Vietnam.
Hot bowls of noodles eaten on rickety plastic stools. Whole gardens of cut flowers nearly tip the bicycles that carry them. Congested streets that you can cross if you just commit to walking steadily. Relearning the stories that US history books never told. Limestone karsts in legendary bays. UNESCO towns. Motorbike adventures. Hiking in the hills.
This is Vietnam.
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THE BAY LESS TRAVELED
Halong Bay is legendary. But it turns out that 6 million other annual visitors know this too. The good news? Halong Bay is not the only place of its kind.
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TREKKING IN HA GIANG
Ha Giang has something in common with most truly awesome places; it is just hard enough to get to that it has withstood the ravages of time.
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