It's by chance that i found your Hanoi site and i have read your emotional experiences living in VN. Your background story and pictures tell me that you are a compassionate person with deeper feeling for people and things so i'd like to send you a message with my thought. The thing i like about is the way you take the picts of the simple and common street scenes of the people of Hanoi and Phu Quoc and their daily life and even food picture look good also. Some pics i like are the little girl crying in the market and the lost girl in middle of street in Phuquoc and green of Hanoi. As a vnmese who left the country to US with family in '75 when i was young, i haven't known many part of vn and the old Hanoi is a mystery place to me and i'm interested to know what it looks like today and thru online travelers' utube, i can see that it has built up with many colorful buildings. And these new roads and buildings in hanoi are being built with S Korea investment and vn and korea construction companies. Sometimes last year I had plan to return to vn for visit after 3 decades living another land. Thru the video i can see vn present day's getting better than it was back in the '70s especially in the north. During the war years, Hanoi was a cold, dark and dead place like north Korea. Hanoi people were starving with little electricity and lived their days around the B-52 bombing time. But Hanoi people are known by the south as resilient people who survive thru times with little thru different wars. One poignant war moment to remember about Hanoi for tourists today who travel by air from Thailand to Hanoi for vacation is they use the same air route as those B-52s which took off from a northern thai airbase to Hanoi to deliver the thousands of 500 lb bombs. The only visitors in and out of hanoi then are those pilots but they would not want to touch foot on the ground or they can not leave. They don't want to visit it the way John McCain did. And for what Mr.Mccain did and suffered for the south vn, he is the hero of all south vnmese.
I don't know how much longer you're in the country this time but if you still have more days and you like to visit some secluded beach with white sand with hut shelter that not many people know about, you would want to check out the beach in Ninh Phuoc. It has forest mountain in the back side which has water fall and wild monkeys.You can climb up the green hill and look down on the whole beach with coconut trees and huts and the ocean. If you plan to visit it but need to know more, let me know.
Vietnam has another island besides Phu quoc but not many tourists heard about nor visit it as it sits farther in the Pacific in the south vn. Its called Con Son. People can get there by plane from Saigon TSN airport. This island has a high and long green mountain range and pure white sand beaches and an old 19th c lighthouse. It has an old french prison used by the french a century ago to house the vnmese resistant fighters. When youre on the island,you can rent a moped and check around the island. If you haven't heard about it, you might want to visit it when it's time. There are very few yutube vids for it you can see - "Con Dao island" It's better that not many people know about it to keep it that way.
Well, i don't plan to make a long message on your public blog site and prefer email but you don't have email. If you have more pictures of Hanoi or vn, would you put up more. I would like to see them. If you'd like to contact me, my email - bhuyn7@aol.com
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your story. Vietnam is surely in a transition phase and life here is changing faster than ever. I can hardly imagine what is was like here in '75.
Unfortunatly, I will not have time to travel during my stay in Vietnam, but maybe next time?
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Hello Katherine,
It's by chance that i found your Hanoi site and i have read your emotional experiences living in VN. Your background story and pictures tell me that you are a compassionate person with deeper feeling for people and things so i'd like to send you a message with my thought.
The thing i like about is the way you take the picts of the simple and common street scenes of the people of Hanoi and Phu Quoc and their daily life and even food picture look good also. Some pics i like are the little girl crying in the market and the lost girl in middle of street in Phuquoc and green of Hanoi.
As a vnmese who left the country to US with family in '75 when i was young, i haven't known many part of vn and the old Hanoi is a mystery place to me and i'm interested to know what it looks like today and thru online travelers' utube, i can see that it has built up with many colorful buildings. And these new roads and buildings in hanoi are being built with S Korea investment and vn and korea construction companies.
Sometimes last year I had plan to return to vn for visit after 3 decades living another land.
Thru the video i can see vn present day's getting better than it was back in the '70s especially in the north. During the war years, Hanoi was a cold, dark and dead place like north Korea. Hanoi people were starving with little electricity and lived their days around the B-52 bombing time. But Hanoi people are known by the south as resilient people who survive thru times with little thru different wars. One poignant war moment to remember about Hanoi for tourists today who travel by air from Thailand to Hanoi for vacation is they use the same air route as those B-52s which took off from a northern thai airbase to Hanoi to deliver the thousands of 500 lb bombs. The only visitors in and out of hanoi then are those pilots but they would not want to touch foot on the ground or they can not leave. They don't want to visit it the way John McCain
did. And for what Mr.Mccain did and suffered for the south vn, he is the hero of all south vnmese.
I don't know how much longer you're in the country this time but if you still have more days and you like to visit some secluded beach with white sand with hut shelter that not many people know about, you would want to check out the beach in Ninh Phuoc. It has forest mountain in the back side which has water fall and wild monkeys.You can climb up the green hill and look down on the whole beach with coconut trees and huts and the ocean. If you plan to visit it but need to know more, let me know.
Vietnam has another island besides Phu quoc but not many tourists heard about nor visit it as it sits farther in the Pacific in the south vn. Its called Con Son. People can get there by plane from Saigon TSN airport.
This island has a high and long green mountain range and pure white sand beaches and an old 19th c lighthouse. It has an old french prison used by the french a century ago to house the vnmese resistant fighters.
When youre on the island,you can rent a moped and check around the island. If you haven't heard about it, you might want to visit it when it's time. There are very few yutube vids for it you can see - "Con Dao island"
It's better that not many people know about it to keep it that way.
Well, i don't plan to make a long message on your public blog site and prefer email but you don't have email.
If you have more pictures of Hanoi or vn, would you put up more. I would like to see them.
If you'd like to contact me, my email - bhuyn7@aol.com
Regards,
Ben
Dear Ben,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your story. Vietnam is surely in a transition phase and life here is changing faster than ever. I can hardly imagine what is was like here in '75.
Unfortunatly, I will not have time to travel during my stay in Vietnam, but maybe next time?
I will post more Hanoi pictures soon.
All the best
Kathrine
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