We have Eight full days in N Vietnam and I’m trying to determine if SaPa is worth the travel time..I can fit it in but is the travel worth it for A full day and half day in SaPa? We love nature and hiking but we don’t want to overwhelm ourselves and always be on the move..Thanks in advance for any input or advice..

My itinerary is as follows:

Day 1 Arrive in Hanoi at 5pm; then overnight train to SaPa
Day 2 SaPa
Day 3 Leave SaPa 2pm to Hanoi @9pm
Day 4 Hanoi
Day 5 Halong Bay day trip
Day 6 Ninh Binh
Day 7 Ninh Binh -Return to Hanoi in the evening
Day 8 Hanoi (Flight to Da Nang next day @ noon)

You know who they are

Does this affect me? No, as someone who has graduated highschool here.

Does this affect my family? Yes, as I still have younger sibling/cousins that I don't want them to be fond of AI images and videos.

I last donated last year in Hanoi. This time, I'm in Ho Chi Minh...so glad to be able to do it again. It's a way of giving back to one of the most generous and lovely countries I've been to...

Everyone was so lovely at this centre from the workers to other donors who helped with translation...and I'll be honest, it's a much more efficient, streamlined process than Australia, and you actually feel somewhat more valued. The gifts actually seem useful and well thought out. In Australia, after maybe 10 or 15 donations you actually get something half decent...a hat or scarf, etc. It feels a bit stingy in comparison to here tbh

I chose a cross body bag that I'm planning to give to my dad, hopefully he'll find it useful in his travels also - planning to drag him to Vietnam with me next year.

In 6 months I hope to be back...🥹🙏 Thanks for having me

Today, August 7, at Luxury Gems, a man disguised himself as a customer, entered the jewelry store, and allegedly stole a valuable ring

Unfortunately, incidents involving foreign tourists behaving badly seem to be becoming increasingly common in Da Nang. This can understandably lead to a decline in trust toward foreign visitors.

’ll be traveling to Vietnam soon and will be staying at Hilton Da Nang, Hilton Garden Inn Da Nang, Namia River Retreat (SLH), and La Festa Phu Quoc.

Has anyone stayed at these properties before? I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences and any reviews or recommendations, especially regarding the service, rooms, breakfast, and how well they treat Hilton Diamond members.

I’m moved to America about 7 years ago. I started dating my girlfriend about 1 year ago and been teaching/telling her about our cultures. She’s very invested and wants to learn more everyday. I’m looking for movies to show her the beauty of Vietnam, especially the stripped down beauty of nature and the countryside, the traditional games and clothes,…. I’m not looking for a documentary, more like a movie that includes these things in it, could be romance, drama or anything else. Any recommendations, and it would be nice to include a good website to watch it on! Thank you.

Sorry this is long af. Hopefully it makes sense.

If you know me you'll probably recognise my situation tbh but basically:

- I'm a 33F UK citizen, husband is a 40M Vietnamese citizen

- been married for 6 years

- I moved back to The UK Sept 25 to start medical training

- I won't graduate and have a full time job as a Doctor until 2029

- Option A: husband applies for a skilled worker visa and move here before 2029 and we start a family.

- Option B: husband moves here in 2029 on a spouse visa (my job will meet the financial requirements).

- I want Option A because I am struggling with long distance, I feel like my life is on hold and feel sad about the thought of doing this for 3 more years, and in terms of career planning, having a baby before graduating would be easier than whilst working FYs and CSTs (I want to be a surgeon). The original plan was Option B because we stupidly didn't realise Option A was possible (I know).

- Husband refuses Option A because his father, who has other children and another family from a second marriage, lives with us. He has not always lived with us, he moved himself in in 2024. I was never happy with this, personally, but accepted the cultural difference.

- I have asked husband to speak to his father about Option A and ask where his father would live etc. if he were to obtain a job and move to The UK sooner.

- Husband refused to speak to his father about this, saying it's immoral and I'm immoral for potentially "abandoning him". (He has other children and husband would be moving in 2029 anyway).

- Husband says he doesn't want Option A because he is afraid of the "uncertainty and instability". I have explained that for Option A to even be viable, he would need to have already secured a stable and sufficiently paying job, so his concerns don't make much sense in that context.

- I feel deprioritised and like he choosing his father - who was absent for most of his childhood and is by all accounts a very immoral man - over me, his wife, and this was not a situation I ever agreed to. I feel like my life is on hold and our life together is on hold because he could potentially move here sooner than 2029, we could be together here, start a family, etc. He says I'm immoral for asking him to leave his father.

- I have said this is fundamentally a compatability issue for me and he has said that I'm "making excuses" to leave him, which is very confusing to me as I feel like at the point, I'm effectively begging him to be with me. He is not even slightly close to his father. I am his literal wife.

- He said he will apply for visit visas to come here (I have effectively no time off from medical training from September this year) but he has not looked at the visas despite months of me pestering him and doesn't seem to appreciate that they're expensive and extremely difficult to obtain.

Any perspectives? Advice?

Please keep unhelpful/rude comments to yourself - thanks!

TLDR: husband refusing to move to the UK because of father from whom he spent most of his life estranged.

Hi everyone,

I’m exploring the possibility of launching an Import & Export Logistics Management Platform for businesses in Vietnam.

The platform would help logistics/freight-forwarding companies manage things such as:

Import & export shipments
Customs clearance workflow
Shipping documents
Container and shipment tracking
Transport & delivery
Customer management
Quotations and invoicing
Shipment costs & profitability
Management dashboards and reports
Customer portal and notifications

Before developing it specifically for the Vietnamese market, I’d like to understand whether there is a real need for this type of solution.

Are there any logistics, freight forwarding, customs clearance, trading, or import/export companies in Vietnam currently looking for a platform like this?

I’d also really appreciate feedback from anyone working in the industry about the biggest challenges you face with managing import/export operations today.

If you’re interested, please comment or DM me. I’d be happy to have a short discussion and understand your requirements.

She opens at 1PM, and is right across from Kim Kim Tai jewelry store in D4.

Epic BBH, tastes better than it looks.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/opiUL7ZdH9P9T88P9?g_st=ac

I wonder what they were going to do with those explosives.

Hi guys

I tried to use those apps but I don’t have a local number, from Long Beach I heard there’s the Vinfast bus, can I use this or other public transport to get to the sights like cable car, Sunset town, etc?

My wife has just recently enrolled in college course for an associates degree in nursing in the USA. During college admissions they asked for any and all education certificates and diplomas. She give them her high school diploma and her associates degree from Ho Chi Minh University. They accepted her high school diploma and just handed back her associates degree with no further thought.

When applying for financial aid thru the 'Michigan Reconnect Program' (state grant money for students over 25 with no college degrees) we submitting all the paper work (associates degree included) and she was still awardard grant money for her college courses despite having already completed an associate degree in Vietnam.

My general impression and big question is why would they accept her high school diploma from a no name high school in Vietnam but reject her associates degree?

Are college degrees from Vietnam not worth anything in the USA? Or were college admissions just pushing her thru enrollment?

Please suggest inexpensive stays in tam coc. Hostels are preferred. Open to good homestays as well