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Vietnam

Travel experience shared by prerzz

Visit Type

Visited

Visit Date

9/11/2025

Rating

4 / 5

Places Visited

HanoiNinh Giang CommuneDa NangHo Chi Minh CityHải Phòng

Companions

Family

A Week of Culture, Color, and Connection -Vietnam

Vietnam is a great and budget friendly country to visit, which is located in Southeast Asia. It is well known for great beaches, islands, Pagoda's(vietnamese temple).

From historic places to modern cities makes it unique.

Best time to visit Vietnam is from October-December(includes the tourists season), the weather is pleasant. The remaining time is extremely sunny and difficult to tolerate, which makes hard to explore.

Hanoi- (The Heartbeat of Vietnam)

A normal city with casual things, Visited the Opera house, Ho Chi Minh museum, one pillar pagoda and lastly the train street. Among these the only eye catching place was the train street .

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Cat Ba Island -(Great Island Escape)

The most dreamy place, but many of them aren't aware of this place ,they skip this place thinking there nothing much to explore here.

Many people visit the Halong Bay here which is similar to CatBa island .The halong bay is a bit over rated and rush.

This was one of my favourite place among the 4 cities visited. The best thing here was the night kayaking as to hunt the Bioluminescences in center of the island, it was most scariest thing but also amazinggg. The Islands here are the most amazing thing not to miss.

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Ninh Binh- (A Journey Through the Karsts)

Visited The Mua Caves ,it is just caves by name but not actually the caves,it is a mountain on top,which have 500 steps approx,takes 60 minutes to climb and 30 minutes to get down.

Best time to climb is early morning or evening.

There are 2 main view points on the top,one with dragon view other with the pagoda.

Difficulty level: Moderate

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Da-Nang- (Ba Na-nas Over Da Nang)

One of my favourite place in vietnam, can spend 2+ days exploring this city,the main attracting place in this city is the Sun World(BaNa Hills). Which usually minimum 6-8hours to watch and take photos.

I recommend ladies to take 2+ set of dresses, to get good photos :)

Because of time shortage ,I couldn't visit any other places.

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Ho Chi Minh- (Pho-get the Budget)

As of time shortage, could visit only "The Pizza 4P's",had some amazing pizza's with a great taste.

The City Market, where you get amazing things, like a good quality bags,watches ,clothings etc.

Not the less for Fresh Fruits also .

Local Foods to try

  • Egg coffee

  • Noodle soup

  • Fresh fruits

  • Coconut water

  • Pan cake

  • Vietnamese Icecream

Overall Vietnam is a premier, budget-friendly destination offering a diverse mix of, stunning natural landscapes and deeply engaging destinations.