Any museum visit in Vietnam will inevitably include some mention of the American war. The interpretation is often humorously biased with lots of rhetoric involving 'imperialist pigs' and 'American aggressors' and nary a mention of possible Vietnamese wrong-doing. But some of the exhibitions are still informative

To counter the craziness in Hanoi, we spent three days in Ha Long Bay cruising around the majestic karsts of the South China sea. It really does look like the movies, think The Man With The Golden Gun even though that was filmed in Thailand; same same but different, as

While the 1000 year festival was going on in Hanoi, every morning began with an hour of music piped through loudspeakers onto the streets. The music was a mixture between opera and Vietnamese folksong and I have to admit that I quite enjoyed listening to it because it really makes

Coming into Hanoi by taxi we thought: "Wow, this place is really busy". Walking out onto the streets an hour later we changed that to: "Holy shit, this place is NUTS!" Not ten seconds go by that you don't hear a horn honking from