Atone for all the most recent Vietnam information and journey information 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 enticing vacation spot to go to to your subsequent vacation.
It’s been an extended haul up to now, nevertheless 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 study concerning the Taiwanese matchmaker of Singapore who’s been diligently hooking up lonely Singaporean males searching for long-time love with Vietnamese girls.
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 not too long ago that focuses on a feminine Vietnamese traveller who questions why well-liked vacationer locations in Vietnam can’t take the lead from different nations like France and Japan, and provide pleasant, enthusiastic and “correct” providers.
Have we discovered the basis 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 little one drownings. It’s believed as many as 2,000 kids drown in Vietnam every year, making it one of many highest rating nations globally for drowning deaths.
A college within the neighbourhood of Ba Vi has joined forces with the native authorities and company sponsors to implement a program that’s up to now making an enormous distinction.
Transferring from up north to nearly the farthest south you possibly can 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 hen 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 nicely and actually off the vacationer path locations that you simply’d by no means discover in any other case.
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