Compensate for all the newest Vietnam information and journey data with Matt & Mel on The Bureau Asia Podcast straight out of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis!
On this episode we atone for journey information to Vietnam, together with the brand new visa extensions kicking off on August 15, which can hopefully make Vietnam an much more engaging vacation spot to go to in your subsequent vacation.
It’s been a protracted haul thus far, but it surely seems like Vietnam is able to settle for larger numbers of vacationers as we blast in the direction of the festive finish of the yr.
We additionally be taught in regards to the Taiwanese matchmaker of Singapore who’s been diligently hooking up lonely Singaporean males on the lookout for long-time love with Vietnamese girls.
However the query stays: Simply how high-quality is the road between innocently hooking lonely hearts up throughout worldwide borders and other people trafficking?
We additionally dive right into a story that surfaced lately that focuses on a feminine Vietnamese traveller who questions why widespread vacationer locations in Vietnam can’t take the lead from different international locations like France and Japan, and supply pleasant, enthusiastic and “correct” providers.
Have we discovered the foundation reason for Vietnam’s often-mentioned low-return-rate?
Enjoyable turns to seriousness once we focus on an initiative in Hanoi that’s aiming to scale back the variety of baby drownings. It’s believed as many as 2,000 kids drown in Vietnam annually, making it one of many highest rating international locations globally for drowning deaths.
A faculty within the neighbourhood of Ba Vi has joined forces with the native authorities and company sponsors to implement a program that’s to date making an enormous distinction.
Transferring from up north to nearly the farthest south you’ll be able to go in Vietnam, archaeologists have found curry seeds from probably way back to 2,000 years in the past throughout a dig close to the city of Oc Eo within the Mekong Delta.
The invention confirms that dishes like Vietnam’s personal curry rooster could have been round a complete lot longer than we thought!
Then to wrap up the episode, our “cowl story” reveals 5 areas in Saigon the place some actually darkish issues have taken place all through the town’s historical past, together with a few effectively and really off the vacationer path locations that you simply’d by no means discover in any other case.
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