Stories about Travel in Hanoi
A Day in the Life of Hang Bo StreetGraham Simmons - gsimmons [5,329] It could be any back street in Hanoi: graciously shaded, bustling with cycles and motorbikes, and like the ever-changing sets in a long-running stage-play. Pho Hang Bo (Hang Bo Street) is a typical...
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Things to see in Hanoi - PalacesVietnam ThingsAsian - ta-vn [556] Tay Ho Palace On the east bank of West Lake, there stretches out into the lake a peninsula of land. This is Tay Ho Village, an ancient village of Thang Long. In front of the village, right on the...
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On the banks of Hoan Kiem LakeSamantha Coomber - scoomber [2,637] It is 5.30am in the morning in downtown Hanoi. Bleary-eyed, I am standing on the banks of the City's revered Hoan Kiem Lake , a small body of water in the centre of the city. The sky is slowly...
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The Roofs Of HanoiGraham Simmons - gsimmons [5,329] It's like a scene from a Walt Disney movie: a wedding-cake skyscape of turrets, cones, and pagoda-like roofs. This is Hanoi, in northern Vietnam. The conical roofs that grace the skyline of suburban...
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The Metropole: Hanoi's Living History MuseumSteven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,621] Queen Noor of Jordan, former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame all have something in common. For one thing, they have all visited Vietnam. For another,...
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Echoes of the Air War Fading Over HanoiSteven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,621] Thirty years after the last B-52 dropped its bombs on Hanoi, I found few reminders of the American aerial assault on Vietnam's capital city. The bomb craters had been filled in, the destroyed...
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The "Wheel" Force Of VietnamSamantha Coomber - scoomber [2,637] In the feature film The Deer Hunter, there was an American soldier portrayed by Christopher Walken, who, for various tragic reasons, once arriving in Vietnam for combat, found he simply could not and...
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Things to see in Hanoi - Cultural PalacesVietnam ThingsAsian - ta-vn [556] The Viet - Xo Friendship Labor Palace of Culture This is situated on Tran Hung Dao Street, overlooking the May 1st Square on a site that originally housed the Fair Show of Indochinese natural...
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Obtaining Your Visa to VietnamSteven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,621] Behind Vietnam's sun-washed beaches, behind its star-spattered tropical nights, behind its exotic and exuberant cities, behind all this lies the bureaucratic paperwork and cold cash of a tourist visa.
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Things to see in Hanoi - LibrariesVietnam ThingsAsian - ta-vn [556] The National Library Located on Trang Thi Street, it is the country's largest library and was founded in 1919 and was first named after Pierre Pasquier, an Indochinese governor general. In 1939 during...
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