There is quite a bit of war tourism in Vietnam: In Ho Chi Minh, the main spots we saw related to this were the Cu Chi Tunnels, museums (including the War Remnants Museums which we have yet to write about), and the Reunification Palace. The Reunification Palace was just a few kilometer walk from our AirBNB (into …
Soon after learning about this traditional art special to Vietnam- I put it on my must-do list for the country. We decided upon visiting the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater in Hanoi, which was an excellent choice. Thang Long Water Puppet Theater We knew we would have multiple opportunities to catch a water puppet show …
I was happy to find that Hanoi is a place where it’s pretty easy to be a vegetarian, or even vegan. I could almost always find something vegetarian to eat at a given restaurant and there were a number of exclusively vegetarian/vegan restaurants as well. One, or rather, at least two, of these, was Loving Hut Hanoi. …
According to a Vietnam tourism site, the Vietnamese Women’s Museum is “one of Hanoi’s most overlooked museums and is also one of its best.” I have to agree. The museum was originally established in 1987, but has undergone a number of renovations since that time and had existed in its current state since 2010. Vietnamese …
To preface this: as an expat, you probably shouldn’t ride a motorbike in Vietnam. If you’ve never been on a motorbike before, you absolutely should not attempt to ride a motorbike in Vietnam. I had never ridden a motorbike. So – I decided to try and learn how to ride a motorcycle in Vietnam. It couldn’t …
During our time in Vietnam, we traveled through Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, and Cat Ba. We got to try a pretty wide array of the local cuisine, and while the list of indigenous foods is far more extensive than what we got to try, we found that we did get a nice sample of the …