Welcome to the Vietnam

Vietnam, the meeting point of amazing temples, thumping high end night life venues, spicy food, traditional french cuisine and sprawling metropolises. There are only a few places in the world that have had huge modern wars, massive changes in political views and the rise fall and then rise again of its industries. Vietnam has 2 major cites, Ho Chi Minh and Hannoi. The people collective name is Vietnamese and the main language is Vietnamese. Its architecture is a mix of French colonial, modern and eastern traditional.

Ho Chi Minh City which was known as Saigon previously, has a huge amount of colonial French taste and feels which is seamlessly blended into skyscrapers that have delicately well placed threaded green tree lined streets. This is a stark change from the 55 billion mopeds and cycles that cram the city of Hanoi. A total mass of moving people crushed against the hand craft and art shops which lie against the amazing history of its local temples.

If cities are not your think and the more greener things in life are for you then Vietnam offers warm paddy fields scatter along the Mekong Delta river. Also fruit orchards can be found and sugar far plantations. Vietnam has a diverse ecosystem and with a small amount of travel you are taken to a starkly different terrain of deserts and gleaming clear skies. Follow the Delta to one end to wounder through mountainous treks through the Sapa region. If you are interested in the traditional lifestyle of the south east Asian people there are still hill tribes deep the mountains with there own dialects and cultures to investigate.

This may come to a surprise to some but Vietnam has some of the best snookering in the world. Nha Trang’s curved cove and swirling beaches combined with cleaning coral stretching to its borderline islands makes this area a dream to dive in. Rare and beautiful can be found such as luminescent butterfly fish, angles fish and many others. East Hanoi a mere stone through from the hustle and bustle can find you in the middle of a great diving region as well. With a limestone coated base line and bay giving you a lushes silver water, offers a great location for the first timer and expert alike.

Vietnamese food is complicated yet clean and fresh. If you are a traveled person you would say that the food is a cross of Chinese/Thai with a flash of Indian. To describe it to an non traveled person it is a zesty, fresh clean spicy food. Staple based foods are, noodles or rice. Main ingredients, ginger, basil, chili. Popular foods for tourists, fresh or fried spring rolls. One of the interesting parts of Vietnamam is the long lasting connection with France, so any walk down a street will find you walking into a shop selling french bread and pasties if the local food is not to you liking.