Grassy shades of green drift past my window like colors from a box of Crayola 64 crayons. Workers appear in the distance, up to their knees and waists in the fields, their conical hats bobbing as they move. Deep green coconut palm trees and golden wispy plants partially submerged in marshy water frame the scene … Read More
“I’m going to quickly take you from the Stone Age to 1858, when the French took over control of Vietnam,” our tour guide Thang was telling us. We are standing outside Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, site of the Fall of Saigon in 1975, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its … Read More
The street vendors were out in force as our tour bus stopped to let us off at Po Nagar Cham Towers. I’d barely stepped onto the sidewalk when women carrying buckets of fans began waving them in my face, as if a small breeze would encourage me to buy one. Men hawking their various wares … Read More