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An Binh
The more popular and easiest island to visit is An Binh. You can take the public ferry across and then walk or cycle around on your own. Most island homestays organise half-day cruises along narrow canals for around US$20, taking in the floating market and then slowly floating alon
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Saigon Race Track
When South Vietnam was liberated in 1975, one of the Hanoi government’s policies was to ban debauched, capitalistic pastimes such as gambling. Horse-racing tracks – mostly found in the Saigon area – were shut down. However, the government’s need for hard cash caused a rethink and t
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Thuy Son
Thuy Son is the largest and most famous of the five Marble Mountains, with a number of natural caves in which first Hindu and later Buddhist sanctuaries have been built over the centuries. Of the two paths heading up the mountain, the one closer to the beach (at the end of the vill
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My Son
The effusive have described this as Vietnam’s Angkor Wat, but that’s hardly fair: My Son contains fewer ruins (and they are very much ruined) within a small area of about 200 sq metres. Still, it’s the most extensive of Vietnam’s Cham remains, and enchanting in its own way – if app
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Victory Monument
The huge Victory Monument, commemorating the 1954 battles, presides over DBPs main road.
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An Quang Pagoda
This pagoda gained some notoriety during the American War as the home of Thich Tri Quang, a powerful monk who led protests against the South Vietnamese government in 1963 and 1966. When the war ended he was held under house arrest and later placed in solitary confinement for 16 mon
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Royal Theatre
The Royal Theatre, begun in 1826 and later home to the National Conservatory of Music, has been rebuilt on its former foundations. Cultural performances here last 45 minutes.Southeast of here almost nothing remains of the Thai To Mieu temple complex (its now a plant nursery) and fo
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Lenin Park
The nearest green lung to the Old Quarter, Lenin Park is about 2km south of Hoan Kiem Lake. It’s a great place to escape urban Hanoi (and incorporates Bau Mau Lake, where there are pedal boats) and has a couple of cafes. You’ll find fitness bars for pull-ups and dips, and its shady
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30 Thang 4 Park
Stretching from the main market to the Victoria Chau Doc Hotel, this park is the city’s main promenading spot and a superlative spot for river gazing. Sculptures and a fountain are framed by manicured lawns and paths, and if you’re interested in getting river-borne, women may appro
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Suoi Da Ban
Suoi Da Ban is a white-water creek tumbling across some attractive large granite boulders. There are deep pools and it’s nice enough for a dip. Bring plenty of mosquito repellent.For the falls, the best months to visit are between May and September – by the end of the dry season th
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General Museum Complex
Formerly a school for princes and the sons of high-ranking mandarins, this slightly rundown complex has a pagoda devoted to archaeology, a small Natural History Museum and a building with exhibitions about anticolonial resistance. In the grounds are a variety of military aircraft a
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Floating Houses
These houses, whose floats consist of empty metal drums, are both a place to live and a livelihood for their residents. Under each house, fish are raised in suspended metal nets. The fish flourish in their natural river habitat; the family can feed them whatever scraps are handy. Y
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Bau Truc Village
This Cham village is known for its pottery and you’ll see several family shops in front of the mud and bamboo houses. On the way to Po Ro Me turn right off Hwy 1 near the war memorial, into the commune with the banner ‘Lang Nghe Gom Bau Truc’. Inside the village take the first left
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White Villa
The weekend retreat of French governor Paul Doumer (later French President), this gorgeous, grand colonial-era residence has extensive gardens and an oddly empty interior (besides the odd piece of furniture and some Ming pottery retrieved from shipwrecks off the coast). It sits abo
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Buu Long Mountain
Given the number of tourist pamphlets that tell you that Buu Long Mountain is the ‘Halong Bay of the south’, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it must be an incredible place. In truth Buu Long Mountain is more like a small hill and definitely no Halong Bay, but it’s a peaceful pl
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Ba Le Well
This square well’s claim to fame is that it’s the source of water for making authentic cao lau, a Hoi An speciality. The well is said to date from Cham times and elderly people make their daily pilgrimage to fill pails here. To find it, turn down the alley opposite 35 Ð Phan Chu Tr
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Dong Thap Museum
The Dong Thap Museum is among the Mekongs best museums, despite having no English captions. The ground floor displays an anthropological history of Dong Thap province, with exhibits of tools, sculpture, models of traditional houses and a few stuffed animals and pickled fish. Upstai
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Chau Phu Temple
In 1926 this temple was built to worship the Nguyen dynasty official Thoai Ngoc Hau, buried at Sam Mountain. The structure is decorated with both Vietnamese and Chinese motifs; inside are funeral tablets bearing the names of the deceased as well as biographical information about th
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Handicraft Workshop
Housed in a 200-year-old Chinese trading house, the Handicraft Workshop has artisans making silk lanterns and practising traditional embroidery in the back. In the front is your typical tourist-oriented cultural show with traditional singers, dancers and musicians. It makes a suffi
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Can Tho Museum
This large, well-presented museum brings local history to life with manikins and life-size reproductions of buildings, including a Chinese pagoda and a house interior. Displays (with ample English translations) focus on the Khmer and Chinese communities, plant and fish specimens, r
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