Traveling to new destinations is an exciting experience, but if you’re among the travelers, getting cheap fares will be one of the biggest challenges to you. The cost of airline tickets constitutes a significant portion of your expenses for the trip but you have the ability to minimize the expense with the correct strategy and resource and tools in hand. One such ideal tool to get cheap tickets would be Airscanner, a flight finder that aggregates fares from numerous airlines and bookers. You can get the best deals if you’re going to be flying domestically or globally with the aid of Airscanner. (more…)
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Geography-based Wordle: The Ultimate Game for Travelers and Geography Enthusiasts
In the age of online puzzles and brain teasers, Wordle has emerged as one of the most popular daily games for people of all ages. Its simple yet addictive format, where players guess a five-letter word in six attempts based on color-coded clues, has captivated millions. But for those who crave a little more adventure and a challenge that combines both knowledge and fun, there’s a new twist on the classic: Worldle.
Worldle is the geography-inspired cousin of Wordle, designed for travelers, geography buffs, and anyone who loves exploring the world from the comfort of their screens. This game takes the same principles of Wordle but replaces the word-based clues with geographic features, making it an excellent alternative for those seeking to stretch their minds and test their knowledge of global locations. (more…)
The Complete Guide to Tipping in Vietnam
Being a tour guide and trip leader for the last 12 years, I see that one of the most confusing things for visitors to Vietnam is figuring out the tipping custom. Unlike the United States and other Western countries where tips are expected and considered part of the wages paid, in Vietnam, the tip is not a part of the culture, wherever you drink or eat. However, in the past decade, it’s become common to leave a tip when you are pleased with the services provided and to leave extra after a drink or meal as a gesture of appreciation. (more…)
Pho
Pho Vietnam, widely known as Vietnamese noodle soup, is a highlight of Vietnamese cuisine. Pho is also considered one of the most popular street foods in almost all big cities of Vietnam such as Hanoi, Halong, Nam Dinh, and Ho Chi Minh City. Up to now, there has been no dish that can represent the essence of Vietnamese cuisine like pho. (more…)
Vietnamese food: 45 typical dishes you should try in Hanoi
Hanoi has been known internationally as a melting pot of Vietnamese cuisine, foods are served on a moving cranky bicycle, on the edge of bustling streets full of motorbikes, on the narrow sidewalks appropriated by the sea of plastic stools, in a memorable passageway a meter wide, right at someone’s doorstep or up a spiral staircase overlooking the frenetic passing traffic and a lake. If you love eating, it’s almost impossible not to love Hanoi street food. (more…)
How to Make Incense Sticks
From ancient times until now, each incense stick has become a beautiful cultural feature of the Vietnamese people. Have you ever wondered how incense is made? What ingredients are used, and is the process of producing incense simple or complex? Read the article below to answer these questions! (more…)
How to Eat Pho
I’ve been going on and on about Vietnamese food and how delicious it is. And every now and then I mention in my posts about “pho”- the most famous Vietnamese noodle soup. Many of my foreign friends and guests fell in love with “pho’’ when they discovered the traditional food of Hanoi. Pho is no doubt the most shining star in Hanoi’s food map. Ever wonder what is the right way to eat pho? Who doesn’t know about pho you said? You have eaten pho many times and you can eat it even with your eyes closed? Well, it is not that easy to eat this brilliant Hanoi dish. (more…)
Best Pho in Hanoi
In a recent survey conducted by the city of Hanoi, visitors were asked which Vietnamese dishes they had enjoyed the most, most responses were pho bo (beef noodle soup). That doesn’t surprise me, because pho bo is not only famous for its tenderness of the rice noodles, the texture characteristics of low fat thinly sliced beef and the sweetness of the stock attained from low simmering rich marrow bones overnight, but pho bo has also been a symbol of the Vietnamese cuisine. (more…)
Vietnam War
For years after the war, people still kept the question of what was the war about, how was it started, and who was who. The nature of the Vietnam War then remains complicated to many, depending on different sides and perspectives. But to me, it can be seen like this:
To the US and South Vietnam governments, this is a war between two ideologies: Communism and capitalism. The US came and fought the war in order to stop the communist expansion in Southeast Asia. The American public ideas remained divided; one side believed in the government and supported the war against the communists in Vietnam, while the other saw it as an invasion and protested what the US was doing in Vietnam. To most Americans, their government came to Vietnam for the interests of American corporate capitalism.
To the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, it was the war for national independence, national unification, and building socialism. Vietnamese, in both North and South, do not care about political ideology; they just want peace to be doing. (more…)
Which are the Best Local Restaurants in Sapa?
Which are the best local restaurants in Sapa, Vietnam, is one of the most asked questions I have as a trip leader, which I do love to answer. I like delicious food, so I want to make sure my travelers find their way to the best local restaurants in the town. Also, it requires quite an amount of some time to reach the mountains of Sapa, then besides enjoying the mountain hikes we should be rewarded with good local food available there as well. This article therefore shows you the best 5 local restaurants in Sapa. (more…)