Let's Go Vietnam 2nd Edition

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Macmillan, Nov 28, 2006 - Travel - 480 pages
Completely 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
THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
345
Cát Tiên National Park
358
Yok Don National Park
367
Chumomray National Park
373
Vũng Tàu
404
APPENDIX
448
INDEX
455
MAP INDEX
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