Exciting Vietnam Travel Guide

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Southeast Asia has become an increasingly popular tourist destination. Vietnam is a nature-lovers paradise. Trek in a rainforest, hike in for spectacular waterfalls or cruise on a junk. Vietnam holidays offer you the chance to explore to your heart's content.

The capital city of Vietnam is Hanoi. While in Hanoi you will find many temples and pagodas. If you want to visit a pagoda, then you need to visit their oldest pagoda. It is the Tran Quoc. If you want to get in some water sports, then you need to visit the Mekong Delta. They also have boat tours available for anyone who wants to sightsee from the water. Hanoi has a lot of lakes.

Vietnam is located on the southeast end of the continent and shares borders with Cambodia to the South, Laos to the Northwest, China to the North, and the South China Sea to the West.

Many adventure holiday Vietnam start in Ho Chi Minh City, the city formerly known as Saigon prior to the unification of North and South Vietnam. The city was renamed in honor of the leader of North Vietnam after its fall ...
... to the communist forces during the Vietnam War.

As the tourist industry in Vietnam is still growing and outside the large cities and resorts at the coast there are not many tourist facilities at western standard, Vietnam is a favourite country for young backpacking tourist from all over the world. The only problem for your Vietnam holidays is to choose where to start and what to do.

Before you set off on your exciting travel adventure, be sure to use some of the many planning and organizing tools out there such as online resources, which will help you get your travel adventure plans in order easily and quickly, such as the travel guide at http://www.puretravel.com/Guide/Asia/South-East_Asia/vietnam which features lots of tips, advice photos and itinerary samples for your trip.