The Rough Guide to Vietnam

The Rough Guide to Vietnam

Language: English

Pages: 520

ISBN: 1409371867

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Rough Guide to Vietnam is the essential guide to one of Southeast Asia's most enticing destinations. Roam the markets, temples, and shops of thousand-year-old Hanoi, and then slow down the pace with a trip to national parks or the remote highlands.

The introduction will help you choose where to go and what to see, inspired by dozens of stunning photos. The Things Not To Miss section runs through all the must-sees, while the Itineraries guide you around the country's highlights. Navigation through the book and on the ground is aided by clear color maps with every chapter. Each map is keyed with all the accommodation, eating and drinking options, nightlife venues and shops that are reviewed in detail in the Listings chapters.

From the rugged mountains of Ha Giang in the north to the pancake-flat Mekong Delta in the south, the honest and up-to-date appraisals in The Rough Guide to Vietnam will steer you to the best places to stay, eat, and party across every price range. Reviews take in hill-tribe homestays, quirky hostels, boutique hotels, sophisticated restaurants, and delicious street food, while informed and accessible writing covers everything from Buddhism to battlefields.

This fully revised edition is full-color throughout, helping the country's tremendous food, impressive colonial architecture, and colorful customs leap from the page. Detailed color maps offer clear guidance. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Vietnam.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

as lively as Hoi An gets. Daily 10am–2am. Brothers’ Café 27 Phan Boi Chau 0510 391 4150, brothercafehoian.com. The garden setting on the banks of the Thu Bon River is reason enough to visit this Hoi An institution, though the food on the whole is overpriced – better to come for an atmospheric coffee or sundowner. Daily 10am–11pm. Dive Bar 88 Nguyen Thai Hoc 0510 391 0782, vietnamscubadiving.com. The folks who run the Cham Islands Dive Center also know how to make a mean cocktail. In fact

kebabs (70,000đ) and fish in banana leaf (150,000đ). Daily 10am–11pm. Julie’s Bar 22c Minh Khai 031 352 1198, juliesbarhaiphong.vn. Classic, dim-lit bar with inebriated wisdom scrawled on the walls. From a glance at the shelves, tequila seems the favourite tipple here. Daily 5pm–2am. Maxim’s 51 Dien Bien Phu 031 382 2934. Decorated along contemporary Oriental lines, this restaurant-bar is a great place for a drink when there’s a bit of a crowd. Cosy seating, friendly staff, and an extensive

Tien you enter French Hanoi’s principal residential quarter, consisting of a grid of shaded boulevards whose distinguished villas are much sought after for restoration as embassies and offices or as desirable, expatriate residences. To take a swing through the area, drop down Hang Bai onto Ly Thuong Kiet and start heading west. THE METROPOLE LEGEND The bright, white Neoclassical facade of the Metropole – nowadays Sofitel Legend Metropole hotel – opened in 1901 as the Grand Metropole Palace,

Daily 11am–2pm, 6–9.30pm. Le Cine Café 22a Hai Ba Trung 04 3433 9362; map. Duck down the alley of the Hanoi Cinémathèque to find this delightful courtyard café-bar. It serves a great range of ready-made Vietnamese dishes at lunchtime, and there are several Western items like steak and chips (200,000đ) in the evening. It’s a good people-watching spot, and sometimes there is live music, at showtime. Daily 9am–11pm. Pane e Vino 3 Nguyen Khac Can 04 3826 9080; map. Popular with the local Italian

children aged 5 to 10. Open-tour buses follow roughly the same policy, though children paying a reduced fare are not entitled to a seat; if you don’t want them on your lap you’ll have to pay full fare. Tours are usually either free or half-price for children. Many budget hotels have family rooms with one double and two single beds, which are generally good value. At more expensive hotels under-12s can normally stay free of charge in their parents’ rooms and baby cots are becoming more widely

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