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| Ho Chi Minh City |
I have just come back from a wonderful week-long group tour of Vietnam. I travelled with a small group of travel agents and their partners from various states in Australia. I was the odd one out, being the only media person in the group.
Our tour started in Ho Chi Minh City, the toured to Phu Quoc Island and Hanoi.. It was good seeing the two largest cities and the largest island in Vietnam. Tourism is a growing industry in Vietnam and becoming a popular destinations for Australians to visit. I was impressed with the hotels and resorts we stayed in, the restaurants we dined at and the tourist attractions we visited. The hospitality our group experienced was exceptional.
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| Ho Chi Minh City Hall, |
Our tour group participants first met at midday on a Friday. After we checked into the Kim Do Hotel and had lunch we visited the Reunification Palace, Central Post Office, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Ao Dai Museum. All these tourist attractions are well worth visiting. Our afternoon was rushed to fit everything in, so my suggestion for people is to spread the visits out over a full day so that each attraction can be fully explored at a leisurely pace.
The first night of the tour wee stayed at the Kim Do Hotel, which is right in the middle of District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City on the pedestrian street. After eating a heart breakfast in the hotel dining room we boarded our bus and travelled to the nearby Cu Chi Tunnels, after lunch at a nearby restaurant we were taken to the Tan Son Nhat Airport for our flight to Phu Quoc Island for our 3 night stay at the wonderful newly opened Intercontinental Phu Quoc Long Beach Resort. Our activities on the island included a boat trip to a coral reef where we snorkeled, visits to the Vinpearl Safari, dog racing camp, peal farm pepper farm, night market,
We then took a flight to Hanoi where we stayed at the Alan Vien Hotel for 2 nights and visited a local village of Duong Lam, saw the Amazing Quintessence of Tonkin show at Baraar Land. We visited the Vietnam Ethnology Museum, Temple of Literature, and Hoa Lo Prison which should be on everyone's agenda when they visit Hanoi.
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| Era Cruise on Lan Ha Bay |
Our last 2 days in Vietnam were spent on the overnight Era Cruise on Lan Ha Bay.
Our 8 day visit to Vietnam ended all too quickly. We all enjoyed the local cuisine in the restaurants, the friendly people we met, the hotels and resorts we stayed in and the tourist attractions we visited. In the coming weeks I will write more detailed articles about the places we went to in Vietnam. To be kept up to date on the latest tourist developments in Vietnam go to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism website
www.vietnamtourism.gov.vn/english
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