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The Truth About Vietnam’s Cities

Vietnam’s largest cities are also similar when it comes to my own recent history in both.

The Best Version of a Vietnam Trip

Although two weeks is the perfect length of an itinerary for Vietnam—especially if it’s your first time—it will almost certainly leave you wanting more.

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Saigon, Reborn

In Saigon as in Hanoi, there was a boy. But that’s where the similarities between these two stories ends.

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What to Do—and Where to Stay—in Can Tho

Depending on where you make your home in the Mekong Delta, the journey and the destination can be one in the same.

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Why Are There No Nonstop Flights from the US to Vietnam?

Here’s a fact that might surprise you: Los Angeles to Ho Chi Minh City is the busiest unserved air route in the world.

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Why I’ve Got to Get Back to Saigon

I’ve wanted to return to Vietnam, in general, since almost the day I left, but Saigon in particular has changed and evolved in ways that belie the near-seven years that have passed.

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Vietnam’s Cu Chi Tunnels

Pay a visit to the subterranean Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most impressive defense systems in the history of war, even if seeing relics of the Vietnam War is a low priority for you.

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Travel Vietnam by Bus With Sinh Cafe

While the Sinh Cafe’s buses are far from the most comfortable I’ve traveled in, they are nonetheless the most efficient, cost-effective means of traveling up or down Vietnam’s coast.

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Saigon

The Truth About Vietnam’s Cities

The Best Version of a Vietnam Trip

Saigon, Reborn

What to Do—and Where to Stay—in Can Tho

Why Are There No Nonstop Flights from the US to Vietnam?

Why I’ve Got to Get Back to Saigon

Vietnam’s Cu Chi Tunnels

Travel Vietnam by Bus With Sinh Cafe

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