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 compensate 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 enticing vacation spot to go to in your subsequent vacation.
It’s been an extended haul up to now, however it seems like Vietnam is able to settle for larger numbers of vacationers as we blast in direction of the festive finish of the yr.
We additionally be taught concerning the Taiwanese matchmaker of Singapore who’s been diligently hooking up lonely Singaporean males searching for long-time love with Vietnamese women.
However the query stays: Simply how effective is the road between innocently hooking lonely hearts up throughout worldwide borders and folks trafficking?
We additionally dive right into a story that surfaced lately that focuses on a feminine Vietnamese traveller who questions why common vacationer locations in Vietnam can’t take the lead from different international locations like France and Japan, and supply pleasant, enthusiastic and “correct” companies.
Have we discovered the foundation explanation for Vietnam’s often-mentioned low-return-rate?
Enjoyable turns to seriousness after we talk about an initiative in Hanoi that’s aiming to cut back the variety of baby drownings. It’s believed as many as 2,000 youngsters 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 thus far making an enormous distinction.
Transferring from up north to virtually the farthest south you may go in Vietnam, archaeologists have found curry seeds from presumably 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 hen might have been round an entire 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 properly and really off the vacationer path locations that you just’d by no means discover in any other case.
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