[latchkey]

The most interesting and beautiful places in Vietnam are not in the large cities. It is the countryside and the places that foreigners almost never travel to.

The places where you don't see another white person for weeks on end (mostly in the North West of Hanoi... especially Ha Giang area).

The places that are really hard to travel in if you don't have a local who can speak the language. Why hard? Because just getting food or even a place to crash in a random tiny town late at night (because it took you too long to drive there), is a real struggle.