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- North vs South Vietnam: Real Cultural Differences
Hà Nội and Sài Gòn feel like different countries in places — partition history, migration, accents, sweeter southern food, and where the old north-south stereotypes hold up and where they don't.
culture · Updated 2026-07-20 - Best places in Vietnam for history travellers
Imperial Huế, war-era Quảng Trị, Cham temples at Mỹ Sơn, colonial Hanoi, the DMZ — the eight places that anchor a real history trip in Vietnam.
best · Updated 2026-07-06 - Cu Chi tunnels day trip from HCMC
The Viet Cong tunnel network — Ben Dinh vs Ben Duoc, half-day vs full-day, what the experience is actually like, plus the speed-boat alternative.
day trips · Updated 2026-07-06 - Vietnam Cultural Itinerary: 14 Days
Two weeks deep in Vietnamese culture: Temple of Literature, Huế Citadel, My Son Cham, Hội An, Cao Dai, Mekong river life.
itineraries · Updated 2026-07-06 - Vietnam War History Itinerary: 10 Days
Ten days following the wars that shaped Vietnam: Hoa Lo, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the DMZ, Cu Chi, War Remnants and Con Dao prison.
itineraries · Updated 2026-07-06 - Tố Hữu: canonical poet of Vietnamese revolution
Tố Hữu shaped how generations of Vietnamese encountered the revolution through verse, while also holding senior Party posts. His poetry and politics remain closely intertwined.
culture · Updated 2026-07-05 - Côn Đảo: Prison Islands Turned Eco-Sanctuary
An archipelago 230 km off the southern coast — former colonial prison, now home to Vietnam's cleanest beaches, sea turtle nesting, and a single Six Senses resort.
regions · Updated 2026-07-05 - Điện Biên Phủ
The site of the 1954 French defeat that ended a century of colonial rule in Indochina — a remote valley in the far northwest, with battlefields, trenches and a museum.
regions · Updated 2026-07-05 - Tuyên Quang
A quiet northern province best known to Vietnamese as the 'capital of the resistance' — Hồ Chí Minh's 1945 forest headquarters at Tân Trào — plus karst valleys and Tày villages.
regions · Updated 2026-07-05 - Vietnam: A Compressed History
Two thousand years in one read — from the Hùng Kings through Chinese rule, dynasties, the French, the war, and Đổi Mới reform.
history · Updated 2026-06-30 - The American War, Briefly
What Vietnam calls the Resistance War Against America: from the partition at Geneva in 1954 to the fall of Saigon in 1975.
history · Updated 2026-06-11 - Hung Kings Commemoration Day
A national holiday on the 10th day of the 3rd lunar month — Vietnam honours its legendary founding kings at the Hung temple complex in Phu Tho. National-day-of-origin energy.
events · Updated 2026-05-21 - Vietnamese National Day (September 2)
September 2 marks Ho Chi Minh\’s 1945 declaration of independence. A patriotic but quieter holiday than Reunification Day. What to expect if your trip overlaps.
events · Updated 2026-05-21 - Reunification Day (April 30)
April 30 marks the 1975 fall of Saigon, formally reunifying north and south Vietnam. A patriotic national holiday combined with May 1 Labour Day. What it looks like.
events · Updated 2026-05-21 - Archaeological sites of Vietnam
Mỹ Sơn Cham towers, Đông Sơn Bronze-Age, Cổ Loa pre-Chinese citadel, and the lesser-known sites worth a trip for the archaeology-curious traveller.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - French colonial architecture across Vietnam
Where to find the best surviving French colonial architecture — Hanoi French Quarter, HCMC Centre, Đà Lạt villas, Hải Phòng — and what era each represents.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Confucian scholarship heritage in Vietnam
The Van Mieu Temple of Literature, the imperial examination system, the doctoral stelae, and what remains in modern Vietnam.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - DMZ and Vietnamese war sites by region
The 17th parallel and the war sites you can actually visit — DMZ tours from Huế, Khe Sanh, Vĩnh Mốc tunnels, Cu Chi, plus the lesser-visited sites.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Dong Son bronze culture
The 1000 BC – 100 AD Dong Son civilisation, the bronze drums, and where to see the artefacts today.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Early Christianity in Vietnam
Portuguese missionaries, the Romanisation of Vietnamese script, persecution under the Nguyen dynasty, and the modern Vietnamese Catholic church.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - French colonial architecture tour in Vietnam
Hanoi French Quarter, HCMC Notre-Dame Basilica, Da Lat villas — a self-guided architectural tour of colonial Vietnam.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Vietnam museums worth visiting
The 12 Vietnamese museums that justify a half-day — War Remnants, Ethnology, Vietnamese History, Cham Sculpture, plus the smaller specialty ones.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Religious history of Vietnam
Mahayana Buddhism, Vietnamese folk religion, Confucianism, the French Catholic legacy, and the indigenous syncretic religions Caodaism and Hòa Hảo.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Vietnam in regional trade-route history
Hội An as the silk-and-porcelain port. Hanoi as the Tonkin trading capital. The Mekong delta's rice exports. Vietnam's place in pre-colonial and early-modern Asian trade.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Vietnam War sites visitor guide
A reality-check guide to visiting Cu Chi tunnels, Khe Sanh, the DMZ — what they actually show, what they elide, and how to read each site.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - The French Colonial Era in Vietnam (1858–1954)
How French Indochina was built — and what it left behind. Railways, rubber, rice, the Latin script, and a deeply uneven economy.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Đổi Mới: The Reforms That Remade Vietnam (1986–present)
In 1986 Vietnam swapped Soviet-style central planning for a 'socialist-oriented market economy.' This is what changed.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - The Great Vietnamese Dynasties (939–1945)
A thousand years of independent dynasties — Lý, Trần, Lê, Nguyễn — and how the country grew from the Red River delta to the Mekong.
history · Updated 2026-05-21 - Generational Divides in Vietnam: War, Đổi Mới and the Digital Native
Three Vietnamese generations live alongside each other — the pre-1975 cohort, the Đổi Mới generation born into reform, and the digital-native Gen Z — with sharply different worlds.
culture · Updated 2026-05-17