Shopping & Handicrafts
It will not shock you to learn that Vietnam has a rich, deep culture of making beautiful things, and that those things are well represented in Hà Nói. From the 36 Streets to craft villages…
We All Scream For Museum!
Hà Nói is a capital city, and has the allotment of high quality museums you’d expect as a result. From fine art to historical to ethnographic, Hà Nói has it all. So let’s go museuming.…
Are You Experiencing?
Shopping is an experience, and one of our favorites, but it’s hardly the only way to engage with culture wherever we are. There’s performance, generally of some historically culturally relevant art forms, like the Apsara…
Red Flags
I’m trying to wrap my head around the whole communism thing here. Economically, Vietnam has a distinctly capitalist vibe, although it favors small-scale entrepreneurism over late-stage capitalism’s megafauna. That certainly seems like an improvement over our…
Swimming To Vietnam
Getting out of Cambodia was surprisingly pleasant. First, when we’d dashed through the Siem Reap airport on arrival, after 30+ hours of travel, I think our eyes were too crusted over to properly appreciate how…
Haircut à la Hà Nội
There are other places that do this in Southeast Asia, but it wasn’t a thing in Cambodia. Of course it’s a Thailand thing. You’d expect that. And it’s not the dominant model anywhere, but it’s…