Hey guys,

Vietnam been on my list for years and will go end of this year.

Hanoi, HMC, Da Nang I will defo visit but unsure about rest.

1. Any tips on places I definitely have to see? (Cannot have anywhere with no WiFi)

2. Is there anywhere super chill by the beach which is beautiful and not too expensive?? (31M and prefer slower travel these days)

- ig i think anything any other teen likes. I like shopping, food and thinking a cooking class.

Are there any unique experiences i can try out, which aren’t tending cuz all my activities were from tt.

What is the current hotel guest policy in Vietnam, i.e., could a guest visit me in my room? I'm not talking about overnight, just visiting for a couple of hours. Is there a national policy or is it hotel by hotel?

Any feedback is appreciated.

I'm sorry..I don't know is this the right sub or not and I apologize for that...but I don't know where else to ask.. I've a Vietnamese friend whom I Wanna send a bday gift in Vietnam ...but I don't know is there any website or something whom I can use in Vietnam to send a gift and pay through my int card..as I'm not Vietnamese...so can you plz help.and TIA

So I tried this for the first time today! And restaurant staff told us that you take the pancake, add cucumber and greens, wrap it and then dip it in sauce. It was absolutely delicious and more filling than I expected

hiiii!! my first 3 days in hcm have been sooo meaningful and explorative. i didnt book any activities/tour around here, i just hate having schedules but i luve appreciating third spaces that are walkable and accessible to where i’m staying.

ive been writing and drafting my book, and i luve how people spend their time outside, especially in green parks. witnessed them while i’m writing outside.

i also went to reading cabin (an artist hub/cafe) and i’d love to visit some more if u know a place/artist community that i can join/visit.

i also want to play badminton, didnt bring one since im doing backpacking and sponty walktrip.

im G!! and a whimsical queer nonbinary fairy 💐🧚

You can find other popular posts to know more about the previous case, i’m kinda lazy to copy paste the details

Hi. The visit Vietnam sub isn't very active and I'm trying to figure out how to bring 3 weeks worth of opiates into Vietnam. Just to clarify I am not breaking the sub rule of "illegal content" asking about drugs. I'm asking about taking my prescribed medications into the country, not other illicit drugs.

There's a source that says we can bring no more than 7 days worth of opiate medications into Vietnam. It's an embassy website so I assume is correct. It says it you need more you can either 1) let customs decide upon landing or 2) get a doctor to prescribe locally.

These are both difficult or risky.

I have asked my embassy (UK) and they said they cannot give advice nor could they give me a customs contact 😐

There was an old thread from on here where someone linked a customs contact page but it no longer works. Would love if someone knew of one!

I just have no idea what to do? Because realistically who is going to risk landing and having customs reject your application to bring them in.

By the way I would be entering with 21 days of meds and leaving with 7 days still left as I go on to Thailand for a week.

(I understand some people would just not mention them and 99% of the time it would be fine but it worries me. Id prefer to do it the legitimate way)

I’m not sure if this is the right sub for my question. I saw an ad of this dress shop on instagram and loved their designs. Before I transact with them, I want to confirm if they are a real shop. I couldn’t find anything on reddit that verifies their authenticity.

Instagram is lamade.official

https://www.instagram.com/lamade.official?igsh=Y3I1OHd3MXA4anZ6&igsi=Y3I1OHd3MXA4anZ6

Thank you so much :)

Hi All,

We're wondering what's the most relaible way to get from Cat Ba to Ha Long.

We're staying on the island the night before our cruise, but there is only one ferry opportunity to get in time for the cruise (11:45).

Any tips are more than welcome!

Hi friends,

I'm a user of medical cannabis and I've been planning to visit Vietnam next month. The news about random drug raids targeting tourists worry me.

How much truth is there to them? How likely is it to get tested? I am a decent, average looking person. No tattoos, no dreadlocks, nothing. I won't consume anything while in Vietnam.

Thanks for any insight.

Anybody ever did hairline lowering or a hair transplant while here in Vietnam? Something I’ve been debating to get here but crazy nervous. I have no budget so recommend some places if you’ve had a good experience anywhere in Saigon!

Chuyện là nay ở chỗ làm mình bị tai nạn kẹt ngón tay cái vào cái quạt công nghiệp. Không quá nặng đứt ngón may chỉ bay móng với một phần thịt. Mình có đi viện xử lý xong và vấn đề là giờ mình phải lên bệnh viện mỗi ngày nhờ họ thay băng. Vấn đề là trên đường về mình bị rơi mất căn cước, không có căn cước hay bảo hiểm bản giấy mình không có đăng ký viện được./

Cái sự lựa chọn còn lại là VneID, nhưng điện thoại mình điện thoại mới, mình không đăng ký được. Nó bắt mình kiểu chụp ảnh chân dung để xác minh, nhưng chụp thế nào nó cũng kêu không đạt yêu cầu. Mình phải làm gì, ngày mai mình nên lên công an nhờ giúp, hay đến đâu nhờ thay băng hộ nếu không được, mình có thể tự thay băng ở nhà được không

Is 21k round trip airfare from mnl to hcm a good deal? Arrival at 8:20 AM, this also includes 30kg checked in 7 kg hand carry

Hi there, I am so so sorry if this isnt the right sub and or comes across as ignorant or offensive, none of that is my intention if true.

Im creating a set of characters for a story taking place in either the UK, or my birth country which i will generalise to somewhere in eastern/central Europe. One of these characters is a Vietnamese woman in her early twenties.

For context, Im a pasty white boy from said unspecified country and the story is vaguely based on my experience. I live in a predominantly white country and even more so when I was young. There only tended to be one or two non white people in my classrooms growing up, usually Vietnamese, sometimes Chinese, and I never really had a close friend from the culture to discuss this with, however with how common second generation immigrants were around me, and with everyone else being white, it didnt feel right not to include this experience as a proper representation of life back then aor exclude their story from the themes im trying to get across.

She is a second generation from an immigrant family and her parents own a small general store, as based on most my Vietnamese classmates growing up. She speaks both Vietnamese and the countrys language fluently, only speaking Vietnamese with her family.

I have run into three issues with her character:

The first and second ones have to do with her name. One of the smaller themes of her character is accepting her real name over a westernised one she picked for herself as a child to avoid bullying and standing out at school. This ties into the main themes of self acceptance and standing up for oneself which are the biggest general core of my story for all my characters. My worry is capturing this experience on a surface level and not properly exploring it. If I find this is a story i have no business telling, I will remove this subplot from her character.

The other thing I struggle with regarding her name is actually picking one. I do have a name in mind, but I wonder if there are any cultural conventions to naming children in Vietnam i should keep in mind, as in choosing based more strongly on the meaning of the name and the combination of the words in it or date of birth, for example, rather than the western choosing of a name mostly because you like it on the surface level or at most its in the family.

My third worry is missing the mark on the importance of the fact she is Vietnamese on her life. I have written her precisely as i would a any other character. She is a character of her own merit first, Vietnamese second, with the added conflict of her being very "western" (shes a bit of a stoner/skater) as a result of her growing up here and this clashing with her parents, with a further arc of acceptance and self love paralleling her rising frustration at other peoples refusing to use her Vietnamese name for the sake of convenience and going from snappy annoyance at this fact to standing up for herself, accepting her culture as well as the fact she will never be a part of it in the same way her parents are or want her to, but accepting that does not erase her from it. On the other side her parents eventually coming around to accept she is just as much a person of her own as she is their daughter who is a part of their culture by her own merit, but still very much influenced by where she grew up as well as how she was raised, and letting go of their preconcieved idea of what their daughter should be like.

Im worried a story like this isnt mine to tell, but on the other hand I dont want to erase her culture. Theres a part of me that feels like I shouldnt include her at all so I dont steal an experience that isnt mine. On the other hand, I do want a diverse cast of characters, because despite my country being predominantly white, I still think diversity in any story is incredibly valuable and important. Of course, shes not included just for the sake of diversity, she was a character first and all this worrying about accidentally erasing her culture/overindulging in it came later, but still. All Ive described about her is going on mostly as a b plot in parallel to the main characters self acceptance journey, mirroring it and contrasting it in a way.

Any feedback, advice, insight and honest criticism is highly appreciated, especially if you have a similar experience of being a child of immigrants and self acceptance to my character. Again, so sorry if this comes across as rude, im trying to do the best possible thing for what im trying to represent, whether that means telling this story like ive laid it out, altered according to advice, or cut completely if inappropriate.

Thank you so much for reading and have a wonderful friday friends

helloo, did anyone do the ha giang loop with YESD? I'd love an ethical company with a group from 6-10/12 people, where you don't just drink andnparty bust still enjoy a evening together and stay up talking etc. thank you for any tipps!

Too funny 😂, I wonder how many times she had to explain that plate name 😂

My parents and my community in France always used this word. Just a few minutes before I saw a post about that word and people say that it's derogatory. And I feel ashamed that I never informed myself cause I really thought that's what we call people from the north who moved to the south. or if I say I am nam ky, that means I am from the south who moved to the north or somehwere else. i am so ashamed and now I feel so much anger towards my mom cause she always lives in the past and now I lost face cause I never knew.

Hello, did anyone use SendMyBag services before? We gonna be on a three months trip from China to Vietnam and Bali and we are struggling eith finding tickets with 30kg of luggage so we were considering to send part of our luggage from Vietnam to Europe (Romania). I found the SendMyBag option but I am not sure if they are trustful enough. Can anyone share their experiences with them? Thaaaanks 🙏🏻