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Vietnam Overview: Welcome to another
world, a world where the
colours are more vivid, the
culture is richer, and the
history more compelling.
This is the world of
Vietnam, the latest Asian
dragon to awake from its
slumber. Nature has blessed
Vietnam with a bountiful
harvest. With soaring peaks
like Hoang Lien mountains
and a killer coastline, with
beaches like Quy Nhon and
Nha Trang, Vietnam is simply
stunning. Blanketed from
head to toe with a patchwork
of emerald-green rice
paddies, timelessly tended
by peasant women in conical
hats, this time the
brochures don't lie.
The rumble of a million
motorbikes, the cries of
hawkers and the buzz of
business transactions are as
ever-present as the tinkle
of the past in the pagodas,
and the swish of the scythe.
Modern Asia meets medieval
Asia and, in the Old Quarter
of Hanoi, the two become
one. For culinary
adventurers, Vietnam is a
treasure trove of more than
500 different dishes. It's a
wonderful world of pungent
herbs and secret spices. Dip
delicate spring rolls in
nuoc mam, a fish sauce that
is as compulsory as ketchup
for the Vietnamese. Or play
'down-in-one' with xeo (rice
wine), the whisky of the
mountains. |
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Cruising in Halong Bay &
Mekong Delta:
Majestic and mysterious,
inspiring and imperious:
words alone cannot do
justice to the natural
wonder that is
Halong Bay.
Imagine 3000 or more
incredible islands rising
from the emerald waters of
the Gulf of Tonkin and you
have a vision of
breathtaking beauty. Halong
Bay is pure art, a priceless
collection of unfinished
sculptures hewn from the
hand of nature. In 1994 it
was designated a World
Heritage site. Visitors
can't help but compare the
magical, mystical landscape
of limestone islets to
Guilin in China and Krabi in
southern Thailand, but in
reality Halong Bay is more
spectacular. These tiny
islands are dotted with
beaches and grottoes created
by wind and waves, and have
sparsely forested slopes
ringing with birdsong. In
the meanwhile, Vietnam's
'rice basket', the
Mekong Delta is a
watery landscape of green
fields and sleepy villages,
everywhere crisscrossed by
the brown canals and
rivulets fed by the mighty
Mekong JUNK. Its inhabitants
- stereotyped as friendly
and easygoing - have long
toiled on the
life-sustaining JUNK, with
their labours marked by the
same cycles governing the
waterways. The delta, which
yields enough rice to feed
the country with a sizable
surplus, was formed by
sediment deposited by the
Mekong. The process
continues today, with silt
deposits extending the
shoreline by as much as 80m
per year. The JUNK is so
large that it has two daily
tides. Lush with rice
paddies and fish farms, this
delta plain also nourishes
the cultivation of
sugarcane, fruit, coconut
and shrimp. Although the
area is primarily rural, it
is one of the most densely
populated regions in Vietnam
and nearly every hectare is
intensively farmed. |
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