Vietnam Live For The City

Urban Vietnam explodes with energy and history. While the country’s mountains and beaches get a lot of attention, the cities are absorbing in their own right. H· Chí Minh City , the country’s high-speed economic nerve center, features a pounding nightlife , sprawling markets , and chaotic but exhilarating motorbike traffic. Stately C<n Th£ , a Vietnamese Venice of sorts in the Mekong, eases the burn. The quaint, winding streets of Hÿi An , lined with old merchant houses and the most tantalizing cuisine in the country, recall the colonial, mercantile past of the cities on the coast; Hu\ , capital under Vietnamese imperial dynasties, evokes more history with its storied Citadel and royal tombs . H=i Phòng and à N{ng , the country’s third- and fourth-largest cities, are economic behemoths brimming with gritty vitality. Finally, Hà Nÿi has a grace and sincere charm all its own; the lakeside capital is a city of parks and pagodas, as well as of bars and clubs , ranging in tone from controlled mellowness to chaotic madness.

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