From serene Da Nang we flew into Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The first look of Hanoi felt it was kind of an old city, compared to the glitzy Saigon and surreal Da Nang.
Read: Da Nang and Hoi An Travelogue
Vacationing in Vietnam: Da Nang and Hoi An
Ho Chi Minh City gave us a very good first impression of
Vietnam. The people came across as diligent and hardworking, and the country
seemed to have made significant progress in the four decades after the war. We
were at the chaotic Ho Chi Minh airport for the trip to Da Nang where for the
first time the experience was not so good. Our flight was delayed by couple of
hours, and there was no way one could get to know the status. Vietjet the
premier private airline of Vietnam seemed to be much worse than our Indigo in
handling customers.
Also Read: Travelogue of Ho Chi Minh City
Vacationing in Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City
Any Bengali kid of my generation is very familiar with the name Vietnam. In 1960s and 70s, when the Viet Cong was fighting the French, and then the Americans, there used to be lot of sympathies for the Vietnamese guerrillas in Bengal. In fact, many of the walls in our neighbourhood were plastered with the slogan “Amar Naam Tomar Naam Vietnam” (my name, your name is Vietnam). Wrestler Muhammad Ali used to be a hero, when he said “I ain’t got no quarrel with Viet Cong” and went to jail in the United States for refusing to fight in Vietnam for the United States Army.
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