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Web Links>Vietnam Today>Trips to Vietnam
Trips to Vietnam
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The following websites give accounts of travelers' experiences in Vietnam.
Cycle
Vietnam
An account of Jay Rolls' bicycle trip from Hanoi to Saigon with pictures.
Daughter
from Danang
In 1975, with the end of the war in Vietnam imminent, Mai Thi Kim, a poor,
young Vietnamese woman, sent her seven-year-old daughter to America as part
of a controversial evacuation program known as Operation Babylift. The parting
was devastating to both mother and child, but Kim believed her Amerasian daughter
-- the product of a brief love affair with an American Navy officer -- would
be in danger in Vietnam. The little girl was adopted by a single woman, renamed
Heidi and brought up in Tennessee, where she concealed her Asian past and
became "101%" American. Twenty-two years later, Heidi tracked down
her birth mother and visited Danang. The reunion that had raised so many hopes
and expectations for Heidi and Kim quickly became rife with tension and misunderstanding
as the cultural gulf between Heidi and her Vietnamese family grew larger and
larger. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
(2002) and won the 2002 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. A teacher's
guide is available on the PBS website as well a background information
realting to the film.
Hitchhiking Vietnam
This large site is a photojournal of a Karin Muller's trip to Vietnam, based
on the PBS television program. Included are travel tips, sites and destinations,
commentary on life and customs in Vietnam today, and photographs of the country.
An account of Muller's journey was also published in Salon
magazine.
Passage
to Vietnam: Catherine Karnow
In the Fall, 1995 issue of Atlas Magazine, photographer Catherine Karnow,
one of the photographers whose work was included in the book Passage to
Vietnam, decribes her trip to Vietnam in 1994 and 1995, commenting on
the changes she saw from her first trip in 1990. Photographs included.
A Picture of Vietnam
The website of photographer Jeroen Neele of the Netherlands includes a series
of wonderful photographs of Vietnam and the Vietnamese people as well as short
stories about trips to Hanoi and Hoi An. Photographs are presented in sections
named city life, the North, Ha Long Bay, rice, and the South. Photographs
from Argentina, Bolivia, China, Laos, Nepal, and the Philippines are also
available on the site.
Rec.travel
Library
Provides travel information for and business opportunities in Vietnam as well
as journals of recent travelers.
Vagabonding
Chicagoan Mike Pugh records his year-long journey through Southeast
Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa. Along the way, he's taken digital
video, photos, and has written travelogues of the journey.
Vietnam
in Pictures
John Townsend visited Vietnam in June/July, 2005 and has created a wonderful
website of his photographs. sites pictured include Halong Bay, Hanoi, Ho Chi
Minh City, Hoi An, Nha Trang, the Mekong Delta, and many other sites of interest.
For those planning a trip to vietnam or for those who would ljut like to see
what the contry fo Vietnam and its people are like, this site is very userful.
Viet
Nam Picture Archive
A collection of photographs from Vietnam are provided at theis website,
grouped into categories such as scenery, people, monuments and statues,
history, and daily life. Other photographs may be found at:
Chaudoc, Vietnam Photographs
Denise Rocco Photography
Images from Asia
Vietnam Interactive Portfolio
Vietnam Photo Gallery
Wing Gang Photography
Voices
of Vietnam
Musician/composer Philip Blackburn describes his journey to Vietnam, focusing
on the music and the people of the country. Photographs and musical links
are included.
Other accounts of trips to Vietnam and Southeast Asia may be found at:
Andy Brouwer's Cambodia Tales
Things Asian
TIME Asia: Asian Journey
Travel Library: Vietnam
Travel Stories: Vietnam
Travel Stories and Pictures in Asia
Viet Nam Journeys
A Virtual Visit to Vietnam
Vietnam War veterans have been returning to Vietnam. the fllowing is a selection of their stories:
Dateline Vietnam
Images of Comtemporary Vietnam
My Return to Vietnam: October/November 2003
Vietnam Revisited
Vietnam Revisited: A Veteran's Diary
Visits to Vietnam
Visits to Vietnam: Visitor's Reports
A Year in Vietnam
See also:Vietnam Travel for Vietnam Veterans
Additional travel stories may be found by searching on Google.
See also, Background Information on Vietnam or Travel Agents.
