Let's Go Vietnam 2nd EditionCompletely revised and updated for 2007, Let's Go Vietnam is researched and compiled entirely by students who know first-hand how to see the world on the cheap. This guide has insider tips and information and is more useful and opinionated than ever. Vietnam is hallucinogenic limestone landscapes, dense forests sprawling across chocolate river deltas and insane high-pitched motorbike traffic. The natural beauty of the country is legendary and spectacularly varied, encompassing brilliant white beaches and lonely mountain passes that pierce the clouds. Jagged monoliths shoot up from mirror-bright bays in the far north; intricate lattices of canals run under mangrove canopies in the far south. The whole landscape resonates, too, with a history both chaotic and profound. |
Contents
DISCOVER VIETNAM 1 | 7 |
COVERING THE BASICS Read this before you go The first chapter Discover Viet | 13 |
Safety and Health | 23 |
Getting to Vietnam | 32 |
Keeping in Touch | 40 |
The Great Outdoors | 46 |
Other Resources | 53 |
Flora and Fauna | 59 |
Vinh | 247 |
Đồng Hới | 256 |
The Demilitarized Zone DMZ | 264 |
Huế | 270 |
Bạch Mã National Park | 290 |
Hội An | 304 |
Quảng Ngãi | 315 |
Phan Thiết | 337 |
Vietnam Today | 71 |
Additional Resources | 84 |
Studying | 93 |
HÀ NỘI | 114 |
French Quarter | 123 |
Đống Đa District | 130 |
Cát Bà Island | 142 |
Cát Bà National Park | 149 |
NORTHERN CENTRAL VIETNAM | 232 |
Cúc Phương National Park | 240 |
Common terms and phrases
Bắc Bảo beach Bến Bình boat bridge bus station buses Cafe Cái Cát Bà cave Chàm Châu Chí Minh City Chinese city center Công Đà Lạt Đà Nẵng DAYTRIPS Điện Biên Phủ Đình Đông Đức Đường English Entrees French Giang guesthouses Hà Nội Hải Phòng Hàng HCMC HIGHLANDS Hồ Chí Minh Hòa Hoàng Hội Hồng Hotel Huế Hùng Vương Internet intersection island Lake Lê Duẩn Lê Lợi located Long Bay menu motorbike mountain Mường museum National Park Ngọc Nguyễn Nguyễn Huệ Nhà Nha Trang NIGHTLIFE Ninh NORTHERN offers Open daily 7am-11pm Open M-F Pagoda Phạm Ngũ Lão Phan Phú Quốc Phùng Phương post office Quang restaurants rice river road rooms Sơn street Tây temple Thái Thanh Thị tickets Tiên Tourist Office tours town Trần Hưng Đạo Trần Phú travelers trip Trung Văn Việt Vietnamese village Vinh visitors