I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

The amateur traveler episode 548. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about the

Hmong Yow and Cham people, Carst Mountains, Rice Terrace, ancient palaces, and tombs as we go to Northern Vietnam.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. If you were

sponsoring this episode we would have been talking about you by now but you're

not so let's talk about Vietnam. I like to welcome to the show

Cindy Carlson who is coming to us from snowy Minnesota and from Exploration Vacation

net and come to talk to us about Northern Vietnam.

Cindy welcome the show.

Thank you, nice to be here.

So we're talking about a place a little warmer than where you're sitting right now?

Well, a little warmer.

The mountains are pretty cool in Northern Vietnam this time of year.

No one thinks about that, but they actually can get snow up there.

We have talked about Vietnam as a country a long long time ago

on the show and then we've talked about Saigon or Hochiman City much more

recently. Why should someone go to Northern Vietnam?

Northern Vietnam is just really amazing.

It has a little bit of everything.

There's great scenery, fabulous mountain scenery.

There's beaches like the rest of Vietnam.

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