Vietnam, Page 5

Incense and conical hats

There’s a village right near Tu Duc’s mausoleum that has been making conical hats for a very long time. And a special …

When an emperor in one of the previous Vietnamese ruling dynasties died, they were generally buried in their ancestral villages. The Nguyen …

I found out why the Nguyen emperors or more specifically, Emperor Gia Long, sited the Citadel at Hue. It was because according …

So today we’re on our way to Hue. Hue is pronounced whay…so, now go back and re-read the first sentence. Clever, huh? …

Wouldn’t you just love to be able to drive right through the supermarket, picking up what you need and paying for it, …

Remember the year we spent Christmas in New York? I was blown away then by the visual spectacular of Christmas Yank-style. But …

I know. I know. We’ve been back over a week and it’s about time I loaded up some updates from our trip …

And now we’re almost at the end of the Vietnam story. But before we head home, some final scenes from Hanoi. Vietnamese …

In Hanoi, the preferred mode of transport is both push-bikes and motorbikes. It is quite common to see whole families on a …

From the junk we were taken in bamboo boats to a floating village. From what we could work out, these villages were …