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drewboy12 · 05-09-2012, 03:58 AM

Yea Vietnam offers your everything from posh beach resorts to your hostels and budget hotels. Delicious cheap food, with every city kind of having their own "known" dish. $1 bowls of Pho, $.50 bowls of noodles, right down to $0.15 drought beer in Hoi An.

You have your tropical areas, your mountains, beaches, forest trekking. Its a small country that will offer a lot. Busses are easy to book and travel on. Costing about $1 per hour traveled. Trains are more expensive here, about double to triple the cost of a bus.

I won't lie, Vietnam, I have kinda stuck to the backpacker trail. Saigon-Nha Trang-Hoi An-Hue-Hanoi-Halong Bay-Sapa... Saigon is a beautiful city, filled with very friendly people. Enough there to keep you busy for a few days. Nha Trang is your "hawaii" of Vietnam. Lots of Russians, lots of young backpackers who want to do nothing but drink and party. The beach is huge though. Very clean, nice clear water, and verrry hot! It is also extremely cheap. I paid for my hostel, beers and two meals a day and kept my spending at $10 a day for all of it. Hoi An, if you want a very well made tailored suit, or any article of clothing made for you. Any pair of shoes, then Hoi An is th eplace to get it done. I believe there is over 600 tailors there now. Your looking at about $200-$250 for the best made suit in the city, but can opt for cheap materials and go as low as about $80 for a full suit. Custom dress shirts will run you about $15, any pair of shoes will run you about $15.

I am currently in Hue, the food is great, its awefully hot, and the people are friendly. Quiet after about 11pm, and offers a few day tours to some tombs, the DMZ, and there is also the citidel/purple palace (not that great to be honest)... I will be biking the tombs tomorrow. As for the north I have yet to get that far... But so far, Vietnam and the people have blown me away. Very nice, very accommodating, very cheap.

Ill be coming back in a few months and buying a motorcycle and head South-North in the interior to get a better feel of the locals. Highly recommend Vietnam to anyone.

05-09-2012, 03:58 AM	#16
drewboy12 First Line Centre Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC Exp:	Yea Vietnam offers your everything from posh beach resorts to your hostels and budget hotels. Delicious cheap food, with every city kind of having their own "known" dish. $1 bowls of Pho, $.50 bowls of noodles, right down to $0.15 drought beer in Hoi An. You have your tropical areas, your mountains, beaches, forest trekking. Its a small country that will offer a lot. Busses are easy to book and travel on. Costing about $1 per hour traveled. Trains are more expensive here, about double to triple the cost of a bus. I won't lie, Vietnam, I have kinda stuck to the backpacker trail. Saigon-Nha Trang-Hoi An-Hue-Hanoi-Halong Bay-Sapa... Saigon is a beautiful city, filled with very friendly people. Enough there to keep you busy for a few days. Nha Trang is your "hawaii" of Vietnam. Lots of Russians, lots of young backpackers who want to do nothing but drink and party. The beach is huge though. Very clean, nice clear water, and verrry hot! It is also extremely cheap. I paid for my hostel, beers and two meals a day and kept my spending at $10 a day for all of it. Hoi An, if you want a very well made tailored suit, or any article of clothing made for you. Any pair of shoes, then Hoi An is th eplace to get it done. I believe there is over 600 tailors there now. Your looking at about $200-$250 for the best made suit in the city, but can opt for cheap materials and go as low as about $80 for a full suit. Custom dress shirts will run you about $15, any pair of shoes will run you about $15. I am currently in Hue, the food is great, its awefully hot, and the people are friendly. Quiet after about 11pm, and offers a few day tours to some tombs, the DMZ, and there is also the citidel/purple palace (not that great to be honest)... I will be biking the tombs tomorrow. As for the north I have yet to get that far... But so far, Vietnam and the people have blown me away. Very nice, very accommodating, very cheap. Ill be coming back in a few months and buying a motorcycle and head South-North in the interior to get a better feel of the locals. Highly recommend Vietnam to anyone. __________________ "we're going to win game 7," Daniel Sedin told the Vancpuver Sun.