christopherbradford.com - Vietnam Photographs

Arriving from Laos, Vietnam was overwhelming at first. It was these differences (traffic, crowds and bizarre smells) that in the end gave Vietnam its charm. Vietnam is completely different from any country in the region and should be on the top of every traveller's wish list. All you have to do is look at the photos below to see what I am talking about.

Halong Bay	Hanoi	HCMC

Mekong Delta	Sapa	Trekking

Background Information »

Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam[1]), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a communist country in Southeast Asia. Situated in eastern Indochina—bordering China, Laos, Cambodia, as well as the South China Sea—it is the most populous country among the mainland Southeast Asian countries. The name of the country comes from the Vietnamese Việt Nam, which is in turn a reordering of Nam Việt—the name of an ancient Kingdom from the ancestral Vietnamese that covered much of today's northern Vietnam and southern China. Its Chinese cognate, Yue/Yuet, was also a name for ethnic groups living in the proximity of southern China during ancient times.

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