Im planning to go back to Thailand this summer with friends, actually we're going to visit and stay in thailand for 3 weeks, then take a bus to visit Cambodia for 5 days and then take a bus to tour Vietnam for a week before going back to Thailand.

Do you guys know what places are worth while to visit? I mean good tourist areas?

I really want to see ancient Cham ruins, as well as pagodas in the north and some of the note worthy vietnamese beaches!

Thanks guys.

Hanoi is the way to go.

You should go to the region of Nha Trang, Phan Rang, Phan Thiet. Those are the last strong hold of the Champa kingdom and they still have many Champa ruins left. The places also have very beautiful beaches.

When visiting Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos, always be mindful of landmines, unexploded bombs and Agent Orange contaminated lands. Highly populated areas are obviously safe...

If you're into military then keep your eyes open, there is military museums everywhere.

Very much into the military! My one friend wants to visit a naval base...lol. We want to see the illusive S.R.V.N

You probably should look up the official url by the ministry of tourism.



Not sure what they do to spies.

If you're at Tan Son Nhut airport in Saigon or Noi Bai in Hanoi, make sure you have a camera, because you can take photos of military aircrafts. But be careful though.

lol! thanks buds!

Nha Trang a beautiful beach resort

or Saigon the entertaintment city !

DA LAT MOst beautiful place in Vietnam

HaLong Bay in the North-East. A bit cold on some winter days but always naturally beautiful. Bon voyage.

Wow thanks so much!! And yes, I believe we will using the linked highway. As for translating, considering I can only speak a little bit of vietnamese..we're going to utilizing our friend Jet (he's vietnamese-thai) and speaks the language fluently..so at least if we do get lost..we wont look like lost thai tourists..ROFLMAO!


You guys all rock; thanks so much in helping me for tourist areas. I remain truly truly greatful! kap koon kon viet!


As well...for all of the travellers in here..please visit us too! Visit Thailand! Your sister state!


Cheers! Chao em (hope i spelled that right)

Cat Ba

Just a week?

1st day: Hochiminh city-Dalat



You should visit:
_Dinh Độc lập (independent palace)
_Bảo tàng chứng tích chiến tranh (museum of war remains)
_Wander about the streets in 1st and 3rd District: Đồng Khởi, Nguyễn Huệ, Lê Lợi, ect... You should have a small map, you will enjoy eveything by discovering the streets by yourself.



_Evening: try food in Bến Thành market.

In evening star off to Da Lat by plane. (From Tansonnhat airport to Lien Khuong airport)

_Visit the night market in Dalat. Have a glass of soy-bean milk there. It is great to try the hot milk in that cold weather.

2nd and 3rd days: Dalat-the city of flowers





You can ask the hotel (where you live) about places you should visit.
Here are some.
_Prenn water fall
_Thung lũng tình yêu_Love Valley



(It is said there was a couple commiting suicide here for love 2 )

_Langbiang



(This is also a place of love. Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Lang (very handsome ) loving a young girl named Biang (very beautiful ). Unfortunately Biang's father did not accept it. Biang ran away to look for Lang, she ran, ran to death and her soul turned into a natingale .

One day Lang went hunting, and he met the natingale Biang. Lang turned to a pine, therefore they were together forever Thus the moutain has been called LangBiang)

_Suối vàng suối bạc (golden stream)



ect ect....

_Give sometime for wandering around Dalat. Go into the alleys, watching the villas with flowers, you will be in love with some Dalat girl

WOW.....dalat looks spectacular!!

4th day : Nha Trang

Star off to Nha Trang from Dalat by bus




_Visit Cham towers: Poklong Giarai, Po nagar



_Enjoy the beaches in Nha Trang.

5th and 6th day : Huế- Hanoi



Travel from Nha Trang to Hue by bus. Along the way you will see a lot of Cham towers scattered everywhere.

_On 5th day. Evening, visit Midday gate (if you are not tired after a long journey)

(IMO it is very boring )

_On 6th day. Visit Royal tomb Khai Dinh


_Visit Thien Mu pagoda


In evening, fly from Hue to Hanoi by plane (from Phú Bài airport to Nội Bài airport).

_Enjoy Hanoi night. Walk around Hồ Gươm (sword lake). It gives very romantic feeling in winter.

Geez...I don't know Kha...that image of a prenant woman by Ho Guom lake is making the scenery so romantic 2 2

7th day Hanoi

_Visit Hochiminh museum.
_Visit Military museum.
_Visit around Tràng Tiền.

Ok, fly back to Thai. Have a nice trip.

The most interesting thing in Vietnam is to walk around the treeful streets and have food outside. Hope you'll enjoy! In Hochiminh city remember to visit Bason musem on Tôn Đức Thắng street and try Bò Lá Lốp (Viet food) there. You will love it.

Meeting anyone, if you want some strange sensation then just say that you are Viet living somewhere, forgetting Vietnamese 2 . then they will "cheat" you less

(my friend once went to Thailand and told all that she is Thai. She visited all places for free coz they fully believed her and she said it was interesting to try on being Thai for some days)

2 Do not think she is pregnant. Just think she is fat then she will be fat. Just think she is pretty then she will be pretty
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WOW!!!!!! Look at those champa towaers..and nagar! Have you been there before Khaviet? If so....how is it like?? Are cham ruins everywhere? or are they primarily in the central area! ?

Beautiful! Vietnam!!!

they're everywhere from Danang down to Nha Trang. the biggest one is in Quang Nam province, in My Son.

...Vietnam can make make a great movie about the cham and the vietnamese in the region...so much like our own leged of suriyothai. The setting is there, the background is there..and the people are there..well then again...not much chams...maybe even use khmer krom as the cham actors eh?

I have been to the Champa towers a lot of times (coz my native land is there in the central). How is it like? Like the pictures which i posted 2

I have visited some small Cham towers on the way from Quang Ngai to Da Nang too... When you stand there on the deserted hill and watch the imposing scene around... I imagined so many things "How great was the Champa kingdom". "Thousands of year ago what was happening at the right place where im standing?"... Very spectacular!