FEATURE VIETNAM
VIETNAM Top Selling Tips...
• Discovery quest.... “We offer new ‘bolt on’ options such as the Discover Sapa three-night programme which takes in the northern territories along the Vietnam/ China border.”
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PHAM HA founder and ceo of Luxury Travel Ltd
flights, private transfers, an English-speaking guide and cookery classes.
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INDOCHINA 0800 0224 302 (SELECT OPTION 2)
www.travel2.com Travel Indochina’s Small Group Journeys and tailor-made itineraries are bookable through Travel 2’s tours team. The 11-day Vietnam Insight tour covers Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hue, Hoi An, Saigon and Mekong Delta. It departs twice-monthly with a maximum group size of 16. Prices start from £1,833pp, on a twin-share basis, flights with Vietnam Airlines. Included is sightseeing and entrance fees, tour leader and local guides, daily breakfast, plus three lunches and dinner, transfers and two domestic flights. •
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
BY LAURA GELDER As soon as I left my Hanoi hotel the moist, heavy heat covered me like a wet flannel. I stepped straight into a market, which occupied every inch of the alley outside. The metallic scent of red meat hung in the air with fragrant coriander, splashes of colour came from bright pink dragon fruit, with its electric green scales and the bartering cries of tonal Vietnamese rang out in the small space. The roads were a dragon-roar of hundreds of motorcycles and I watched the
slow but confident progress of wizened
vendors in conical hats, balancing baguettes across their hunched shoulders and letting the traffic stream around them. By dark, Bia Hoi stalls opened, selling their home brew at 25p a dusty glass, perfect with a bowl of steaming beef pho, flavoured with aromatic herbs and enjoyed on a rickety plastic chair at the side of the pavement.
LAURA GELDER
LAURA GELDER
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