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Views: 1Thinking of Vietnam from abroad
Living away from home changes how a country looks. A short reflection on what a Vietnamese student abroad comes to see in the places he has known.
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Views: 0Saigon street life: sidewalks, alleys and Phạm Ngũ Lão
Vietnam's largest city lives on its sidewalks. A profile of Saigon's street culture, from plastic stools and alley kitchens to the backpacker streets around Phạm Ngũ Lão.
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Views: 0Bắc Sơn: a valley of stilt houses and a sea of clouds
A green valley in the north-east, ringed by limestone hills, where Tày and Nùng villages sit among rice fields and early mornings can fill the basin with clouds.
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Views: 0The rice terraces of northern Vietnam and the people who built them
Terraced fields climb the mountains of the north in curves that follow the land. They are a farming system built over generations by Hmong, Dao, Hà Nhì and other communities, and they change colour with the seasons.
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Views: 0The Đồng Văn Karst Plateau: a geopark made of stone
On Vietnam's far northern border, a high limestone plateau records hundreds of millions of years of geological history, and the communities living on it have learned to farm between the rocks.
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Views: 0Hội An, a trading port through the centuries
Before it was a lantern-lit old town, Hội An was a river port where Champa, Japanese, Chinese and European traders passed through. How trade built the town, and how the end of trade preserved it.
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Views: 0Hanoi: a thousand-year capital of lakes and trade streets
A city built on a bend of the Red River, shaped by lakes, guild streets and four distinct seasons. A short profile of Vietnam's capital and what gives it its particular character.