One Pillar Pagoda

One Pillar Pagoda Officially known as Nam Thien Nhat Tru, most people call this Buddhist temple the One Pillar Pagoda of Thu Duc (Chua Mot Cot Thu Duc; 1/91 Ð Nguyen Du, Thu Duc district). Modelled on Hanoi’s One Pillar Pagoda, the complex is similar but not identical, including a small, one-room temple hall rising […]

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Can Gio Mangrove Forest

Can Gio was shaped from silt washing downstream from the river, so don’t expect to see any white-sand beaches. A few fine resorts have sprung up along the murky 10km shoreline and more are planned to be built in the future, even though it’s difficult to imagine them appealing to foreign tourists . Of more interest […]

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Mekong Delta

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Why Go? The Mekong Delta, which is the ‘rice bowl’ of Vietnam, is a landscape carpeted in a dizzying diversity of greens and slashed with mighty waterways. There is a water world at which restaurants, boats, houses and many markets float on the innumerable rivers, canals and streams that flow through the region like arteries. […]

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Mekong Delta Highlights

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Mekong Delta Highlights  Kick up red dirt on a motorbike ride to the far-flung corners of Phu Quoc Island.  See the sun set across the Gulf of Thailand from a Phu Quoc Island beach.  Join in the throngs amid the bustling commerce of the floating markets on a boat trip from Can […]

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