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[TAJ]

Hi,

 

Just returned from a week in Vietnam with 17 students for work - what a great place, great people, food and things to visit, plus very cheap once you are their - my total expenses for the week were £56 for food and many taxis all week!

 

I would recommend it as a county to visit.

 

Tracy

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Wow, I bet that was a great experience .

[redhotchick]

Tell me more! Can I get a job like that please?!!

I have been to Vietnam and did love it, although found Ho Chi Minh City a bit too busy with traffic for my liking, fascinating though! So many scooters!

[Olly]

My niece is on a round-the-world trip at the moment, having covered South America, New Zealand and Australia she is now in South-East Asia for some months. I'm hoping to fly out and spend a week with her, I'm looking at Cambodia at the moment but Vietnam was also on my list so I'm interested to hear this. Sounds like a great trip.

[chuckmum6]

Tell me more! although found Ho Chi Minh City a bit too busy with traffic for my liking, fascinating though! So many scooters!

 

So many scooter with so many people on one scooter!

OH has been and came back with some amazing film footage of the scooters, some with whole families riding on them! He liked Vietnam more than China (which he found a place of extreme contrasts).

[redhotchick]

I liked Hanoi and Hoi An. Hanoi is a big city, but we stayed in a little neighbourhood near a park, the old town. There was plenty of interest close by, from there we went to Ha Long Bay. Gorgeous, we went on a 3 day 2 night cruise with A Class cruises. Would highly recommend the trip.

Hoi An is an old market town and river port, mostly vehicle free. Very pretty lots of shophouses, You can hire bikes and cycle to the beach, not a traffic free route! But it was fine, and I am not a very confident cyclist.

[TAJ]

We did the Mekong Delta which was great and rural - myself and my husband have signed up to go back Feb 2014 to do a charity cycle ride around Vietnam and Cambodia - average 50 miles a day, that is out in rural areas and I am really looking forward to it and have started training - as the temp will be around 35c training at the moment is good experience.

 

Tracy

[redhotchick]

Cycling in 35 degree heat doesn't sound easy! I'm sure it will be a fabulous experience, you'll certainly get to see a lot, and those evening swims/showers will be soooo nice!

[TAJ]

Cycling in 35 degree heat doesn't sound easy! I'm sure it will be a fabulous experience, you'll certainly get to see a lot, and those evening swims/showers will be soooo nice!

 

..that's why it is a challenge! I did a trek along the great wall in that sort of heat for my 40th birthday, so doing this cycle for BHF/Alzheimmer's Society for my 50th was the next big challenge. I do not like the heat so the heat and my breathing will be my issues - training the legs for cycling is the easy bit!

 

Tracy

[Willow]

I visited Ho Chi Minh city for work a few years ago and loved it. Everyone was just so friendly, random people would talk to us on the streets. They were just crazy on the roads though

 

Much to Aussie colleague's amusement the CEO of the supplier we were visiting was hosting other clients in the same restaurant we were in the last night and he was very very drunk, he took a shine to me and was making very drunken suggestions at dinner the last evening that I come back and be his special guest His people who were hosting us looked appalled and you could see them wondering how much he'd remember the next day and what they should tell him.