Vietnam, a truly captivating destination with 90 million people and a 2000-year history, officially opened to tourism in the early 1990s. Ever since, travelers have been captivated by a landscape of great natural beauty, Chinese, French and other colonial influences woven into the architecture and cuisine, and incredibly friendly people untroubled by their complex past. 

From north to south, Vietnam constantly displays its vibrant diversity in: hill tribe villages surrounded by lush green rice paddies in mountain valleys of the north, Sapa; gracious French colonial buildings and tiny workshops in the leafy capital, Hanoi; fishing boat villages floating among the limestone mountains rising out of Halong Bay; colorful Chinese temples and sedate wood beam merchant houses in the riverfront trading post of Hoian; carved sandstone ruins of the Hindu-influenced Champa kingdom in the central Vietnam foothills; grand remains of an Imperial compound in Hue; energetic markets and street culture in the commercial capital, Saigon; and canals busy with boat trade between villages scattered on islands throughout the Mekong Delta. You will be attracted and inspired by Vietnam and her people's beauty and charm