Nine Ways To Top 10 Thing To Do In Vietnam Persuasively

At just 20 cnt a glass, nothing beats the feeling of drinking all night and being presented with a bill of about 2 dollars! Vietnam is home to the famous Bia Hoi beer, the cheapest glass of beer in the world.

Classics include a tank tops with the slogan Saigon Beer" and Good Morning Vietnam." Top tip: Never settle in the first price given…bargain, bargain, bargain! The fact that it was about 100% humidity and I found myself changing clothes about 3 times a day was great excuse to keep buying new t-shirts. Granted I wouldn't be caught dead walking down Grafton Street in Dublin with a t-shirt that says Ireland" on it, but I wore all my cheesy Vietnam souvenir t-shirts with such pride while in Vietnam.

If you're a guest they give out FREE BEER every night at 5pm and they have more happy hours than I can count on both hands. It's impossible not to make friends here and every last staff member is totally bonkers. Sorry of like walking into a nightclub that is in fact a hostel.

It's a pretty mad place, if I'm honest. The perfect base before heading off on trips both South and North, this hostel also guarantees a wild night out. The biggest backpackers hostel in Vietnam, pretty much anyone visiting the country under the age of 25 has probably stayed here.

I actually can't count the number of times I have stayed in this hostel. Tours are primarily for convenience: you don't have to worry about any trip planning, and you're guaranteed to meet other people in your tour group which can give you peace of mind (although I've found that I actually meet more people when travelling on my own). Tours in my experience don't really give you an ‘in' on best places to go. They usually go to all the standard places that you can research yourself with a travel guide.

That's the best way to help people enjoy their time in Vietnam- a developing country! Travel with an open mind and heart and take things easy. To travel to vietnam by train to one place is to be ready for difference.

My issue is with the predatory scams that I encountered and of which I've heard other examples in Vietnam. I probably could expand on this a bit within the page itself, as I don't want people to think that I'm merely complaining about pushy salesmen, which are to be expected everywhere. For example, when someone comes to you pretending to be collecting money for the Red Cross, and you think you're making a donation to help the disabled, but instead that person is actually just pocketing the money, that's not okay no matter what country it is or how poor people are.

What soured my experience at times wasn't people trying to sell sunglasses, but some people being extremely deceptive or unethical. Tours to Bai Tu Long are 3 days minimum, which keeps the day-trippers away. Bai Tu Long Bay is a much quieter alternative, if you can find a boat that goes there.

The scenery at Ha Long Bay is spectacular, but just know that you won't be alone. (But don't get too excited: the cave has been paved with concrete and has colored lights installed, feeling basically like a queue in a theme park). Inevitably it's a bit of a canned experience: most junk boat tours include a bit of kayaking, a walk up to a viewing point, and a visit to a cave.

It gets very busy, as basically all boats end up in the same bay.