Post by AirTravel on Oct 31, 2014 21:22:39 GMT 7
With a culture deeply imbued with the natural landscape and majestic with upscale restaurants and hotel amenities, Vietnam was never a great destination to the world.
Steam spiraling up from the pot of water "noodle" gourmet cuisine Vietnamese flavor, bring me feel dreamy about life on the streets of Hanoi. The sidewalk noodle shop there often is not much comfort for plastic chairs with no more than an upturned bucket. Stooped to touch the chin to the knees, I'm trying my best to pick up the slippery eel noodles with chopsticks.
"She was this year how old are you?" Asked my hostess. Despite his advanced age, but she still has to stir the broth sit chatting with customers or just the seat for the kids a very charming way. Apparently she considers pot of water that is second to show the level of pho.
The scenery around me in the capital of Vietnam is very different, with more density in an unexpected way, like the lives of five cities merged into an amazing spectacle.
The scooter, construction materials truck crept over crowded narrow streets, honking flooded. A farmer muttered something to himself on the way to the truck market with pork. A coffin swaying on pedicabs. There's also a peddler with a basket on his shoulder worshiping ancestors looked so fancy.
And then, a group of students, as are two Rodgers and Hammerstein composer staged, bringing the train to celebrate Lunar branches forming translucent pink streaks in the morning dew.
Despite the ravages of war had been raging for 50 years ago, to now, Vietnam has recovered so dramatically. The impact of the "innovation", the process of economic reform undertaken in 1986, contributing to building economic institutions socialist-oriented market evident everywhere.
I feel honored to visit the Mausoleum in the morning, resting place of the leader of the proletarian revolution in Ho Chi Minh after he died in 1969, and Dr. Nguyen Huu Ngoc, historian ever fought against the French colonialists and the US imperialists and Uncle Ho and later became his translator.
Vietnam has successfully transformed from an agricultural economy to a service economy within a generation. The rapidly changing economic, social (GDP per capita doubled in 4 years) has formed rich elite want a life of luxury.
On the street, the owner of the Bentley or BMW rider confidence between a motorcycle forests. The bride, the groom with luxurious costumes posing for pictures in front of a business center style of Western architecture.
And, notably, thanks to the determination that the opening of Vietnam's tourism industry has conducted reforms as strong as allowing visitors to travel around the country and recently, VNAT will also focus investment in luxury services.
Previously, Vietnam welcomed just "backpackers" or the American veterans, the present, Vietnam has owned the hotel and 5 star resorts, capable of competing with the point-to-high other levels such as Thailand and Malaysia. Although the infrastructure in place at client still quite rudimentary, but more and more tourist services to be opened in Vietnam with over 3,000 km of coastline, the pristine rainforest and the cell historic brings a new experience for rich tourists.
The beach in Da Nang, the capital of the South Central region, previously served as the resort of the US military. Now, this area is owned by Colin Montgomerie modern golf or restaurant La Maison in 1888 at the Intercontinental Hotel celebrity chefs Michel Roux and numerous other premium resorts.
The spa at the resort also offers customers the benefits of "VIP" services with caviar facial. Along the streets, some hawkers selling bags branded "fake" worth only a fraction of the real thing.
Not all coastal cities are modern in Danang. Just 40 minutes drive from Da Nang to Quang Nam, we can see the scene "Buffalo ahead, behind a plow", the green square plots that existed 100 years.
Here, at the restaurant inside the famous Red Bridge Thu Bon River, I attended a cooking class in Vietnam. It enjoys being looked at techniques and ingenuity in making spring rolls dishes. He Qing, our instructor ask us homemade cake by steaming a thinly on a large canvas and he was happy to accept the clumsiness of the game. He pointed to the clock and jokingly said: "One minute the Vietnam equivalent of about 2 hours of Europeans".
Trading port of Hoi An tinged romantic chestnut from the 19th century by the sedimentation of the Thu Bon River. Today, the city's UNESCO World Heritage style network remains intact architecture from ancient times to the temples, temples and houses strung along the estuary.
The store cleanliness in the city walk furnished creative, different from the chaos in Hanoi. A salesman with a mustache shrugged politely greeted me when I see him being dusted on an antique porcelain vase.
A few meters away, life goes as centuries ago. In Fujian Assembly Hall from the 17th century, a couple timid students to pray before the Lord pregnant women and 12 midwives.
Hoi An is famous for tailoring taken immediately, literally in the blink of an eye. Before you can say "Let me think a moment," I have been measured and tried a piece of glistening silk. Skilled tailor awesome and the outfit is completed within the day. Working style here seems influenced by 80s.
Secluded beaches and unique coastline of South Central is Lang, a 10km long curve with the pink sands of gold near the foothills of the Annamite Mountains. For those who have been fascinated film From Here to Eternity with screen surfing or misty mountain tops, where is the ideal destination to enjoy them.
In the nearby village of Cu Du, a fisherman boat to take me through a soft lagoon blue sapphires, explore the mangroves that people here said, the beam itself contain its spiritual roots soul.
By mid-afternoon, when the clouds covered the valley like steam rising from a giant wok, I drove up the Hai Van Pass, the highest pass in Vietnam tops. On top of the pass, the guests Vietnam wrong I am an American. They told me that, President Ho Chi Minh once said, the American people are opposed the war in Vietnam and the tourists are convinced of that.
North and South who have many cultural distinctions. Moving to the South, the food seems hotter and way of thinking of people also seem more open. And the weather in the South and the North more pleasant.
Ninh Thuan Province, regional rainfall and at least most of sunny days in Vietnam, while the least developed areas of the country. But now, the vast mountain roads along the spectacular rugged coastline here shows Ninh Thuan have the potential to become the Riviera (a popular beach in the Mediterranean) of Vietnam. The attraction here lies in the definition of wild jaguar species discovered in Nui Chua National Park and sea turtle green glistening in the clear waters of a marine protected area next to it.
Po Klong Garai in, a place of pilgrimage for the Cham people, the sea breeze seemed to erode the edges of the sandstone towers great stay, making it softer. After a few kilometers on the road, I stopped at a Buddhist temple under construction in progress, where dragons precast concrete with glistening eyes. Workers who allowed me to climb to the summit though the work is not completed, where I was admiring the sight of the Buddha towards the village with immense plains, the salt and the carpet is full of shrimp dry sparkling (the main ingredient for the famous fish sauce of the region).
Mekong Delta jungle like Eden, is a great testament to the ability to proliferate the species. Sightseeing by bike instead of taking the boat, I discovered tributaries such as embroidery interlaced with the orchard, where the utopian left dangling big jackfruit hanging along my path.
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is home to mark the end of my adventure, a city with a skyline full of energetic. The city has eight million people with four million motorcycles; people here are very stylish "Fast Life" and nightlife, where young people gathered around the boulevard just because they like it.
For the more left in this city, you may feel this is an action adventure nonsense (I have a trick is the turn of the road, you need to trust people will drive around you, if you procrastinate, the watch died). It would be the happier lot if you go out in the city with a Vespa. With the rotation of the wheels and the sound of the ignition, I felt like the union merged with the red lights.
Travel Vietnam now is a real interesting journey. It would be sorry if you miss the experience in this country
Steam spiraling up from the pot of water "noodle" gourmet cuisine Vietnamese flavor, bring me feel dreamy about life on the streets of Hanoi. The sidewalk noodle shop there often is not much comfort for plastic chairs with no more than an upturned bucket. Stooped to touch the chin to the knees, I'm trying my best to pick up the slippery eel noodles with chopsticks.
"She was this year how old are you?" Asked my hostess. Despite his advanced age, but she still has to stir the broth sit chatting with customers or just the seat for the kids a very charming way. Apparently she considers pot of water that is second to show the level of pho.
The scenery around me in the capital of Vietnam is very different, with more density in an unexpected way, like the lives of five cities merged into an amazing spectacle.
The scooter, construction materials truck crept over crowded narrow streets, honking flooded. A farmer muttered something to himself on the way to the truck market with pork. A coffin swaying on pedicabs. There's also a peddler with a basket on his shoulder worshiping ancestors looked so fancy.
And then, a group of students, as are two Rodgers and Hammerstein composer staged, bringing the train to celebrate Lunar branches forming translucent pink streaks in the morning dew.
Despite the ravages of war had been raging for 50 years ago, to now, Vietnam has recovered so dramatically. The impact of the "innovation", the process of economic reform undertaken in 1986, contributing to building economic institutions socialist-oriented market evident everywhere.
I feel honored to visit the Mausoleum in the morning, resting place of the leader of the proletarian revolution in Ho Chi Minh after he died in 1969, and Dr. Nguyen Huu Ngoc, historian ever fought against the French colonialists and the US imperialists and Uncle Ho and later became his translator.
Vietnam has successfully transformed from an agricultural economy to a service economy within a generation. The rapidly changing economic, social (GDP per capita doubled in 4 years) has formed rich elite want a life of luxury.
On the street, the owner of the Bentley or BMW rider confidence between a motorcycle forests. The bride, the groom with luxurious costumes posing for pictures in front of a business center style of Western architecture.
And, notably, thanks to the determination that the opening of Vietnam's tourism industry has conducted reforms as strong as allowing visitors to travel around the country and recently, VNAT will also focus investment in luxury services.
Previously, Vietnam welcomed just "backpackers" or the American veterans, the present, Vietnam has owned the hotel and 5 star resorts, capable of competing with the point-to-high other levels such as Thailand and Malaysia. Although the infrastructure in place at client still quite rudimentary, but more and more tourist services to be opened in Vietnam with over 3,000 km of coastline, the pristine rainforest and the cell historic brings a new experience for rich tourists.
The beach in Da Nang, the capital of the South Central region, previously served as the resort of the US military. Now, this area is owned by Colin Montgomerie modern golf or restaurant La Maison in 1888 at the Intercontinental Hotel celebrity chefs Michel Roux and numerous other premium resorts.
The spa at the resort also offers customers the benefits of "VIP" services with caviar facial. Along the streets, some hawkers selling bags branded "fake" worth only a fraction of the real thing.
Not all coastal cities are modern in Danang. Just 40 minutes drive from Da Nang to Quang Nam, we can see the scene "Buffalo ahead, behind a plow", the green square plots that existed 100 years.
Here, at the restaurant inside the famous Red Bridge Thu Bon River, I attended a cooking class in Vietnam. It enjoys being looked at techniques and ingenuity in making spring rolls dishes. He Qing, our instructor ask us homemade cake by steaming a thinly on a large canvas and he was happy to accept the clumsiness of the game. He pointed to the clock and jokingly said: "One minute the Vietnam equivalent of about 2 hours of Europeans".
Trading port of Hoi An tinged romantic chestnut from the 19th century by the sedimentation of the Thu Bon River. Today, the city's UNESCO World Heritage style network remains intact architecture from ancient times to the temples, temples and houses strung along the estuary.
The store cleanliness in the city walk furnished creative, different from the chaos in Hanoi. A salesman with a mustache shrugged politely greeted me when I see him being dusted on an antique porcelain vase.
A few meters away, life goes as centuries ago. In Fujian Assembly Hall from the 17th century, a couple timid students to pray before the Lord pregnant women and 12 midwives.
Hoi An is famous for tailoring taken immediately, literally in the blink of an eye. Before you can say "Let me think a moment," I have been measured and tried a piece of glistening silk. Skilled tailor awesome and the outfit is completed within the day. Working style here seems influenced by 80s.
Secluded beaches and unique coastline of South Central is Lang, a 10km long curve with the pink sands of gold near the foothills of the Annamite Mountains. For those who have been fascinated film From Here to Eternity with screen surfing or misty mountain tops, where is the ideal destination to enjoy them.
In the nearby village of Cu Du, a fisherman boat to take me through a soft lagoon blue sapphires, explore the mangroves that people here said, the beam itself contain its spiritual roots soul.
By mid-afternoon, when the clouds covered the valley like steam rising from a giant wok, I drove up the Hai Van Pass, the highest pass in Vietnam tops. On top of the pass, the guests Vietnam wrong I am an American. They told me that, President Ho Chi Minh once said, the American people are opposed the war in Vietnam and the tourists are convinced of that.
North and South who have many cultural distinctions. Moving to the South, the food seems hotter and way of thinking of people also seem more open. And the weather in the South and the North more pleasant.
Ninh Thuan Province, regional rainfall and at least most of sunny days in Vietnam, while the least developed areas of the country. But now, the vast mountain roads along the spectacular rugged coastline here shows Ninh Thuan have the potential to become the Riviera (a popular beach in the Mediterranean) of Vietnam. The attraction here lies in the definition of wild jaguar species discovered in Nui Chua National Park and sea turtle green glistening in the clear waters of a marine protected area next to it.
Po Klong Garai in, a place of pilgrimage for the Cham people, the sea breeze seemed to erode the edges of the sandstone towers great stay, making it softer. After a few kilometers on the road, I stopped at a Buddhist temple under construction in progress, where dragons precast concrete with glistening eyes. Workers who allowed me to climb to the summit though the work is not completed, where I was admiring the sight of the Buddha towards the village with immense plains, the salt and the carpet is full of shrimp dry sparkling (the main ingredient for the famous fish sauce of the region).
Mekong Delta jungle like Eden, is a great testament to the ability to proliferate the species. Sightseeing by bike instead of taking the boat, I discovered tributaries such as embroidery interlaced with the orchard, where the utopian left dangling big jackfruit hanging along my path.
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) is home to mark the end of my adventure, a city with a skyline full of energetic. The city has eight million people with four million motorcycles; people here are very stylish "Fast Life" and nightlife, where young people gathered around the boulevard just because they like it.
For the more left in this city, you may feel this is an action adventure nonsense (I have a trick is the turn of the road, you need to trust people will drive around you, if you procrastinate, the watch died). It would be the happier lot if you go out in the city with a Vespa. With the rotation of the wheels and the sound of the ignition, I felt like the union merged with the red lights.
Travel Vietnam now is a real interesting journey. It would be sorry if you miss the experience in this country