Topping the list is Hanoi, with the thousand-year-old city being full of lakes and founded on a bend in the Red River. The Vietnamese capital is full of history, charm, museums, shops, markets, and wonderful street food. 

Indian media therefore recommends that tourists join a street-food tour or explore the French villas, Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, the Temple of Literature, Hoa Lo prison, and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology.

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, an otherworldly landscape of sugarloaf peaks, mountain passes, and rice paddies carved into impossibly steep mountains, is the second must-see destination in the nation.

Find villages of the Red Dzao, Flower Hmong, and other local minorities, as well as markets and eco-stays to serve as a window into a rural world of timeless traditions such as weaving. En route, stop at the dazzling rice paddy region of Mu Cang Chai, it wrote.

The article listed famous destinations across the country, including Pu Luong nature reserve, Ha Long Bay, Hue city, Da Nang, Hoi An, Ninh Van Bay, Da Lat, the Mekong Delta, and Con Dao archipelago.

Ho Chi Minh City, which offers brilliant street food, is fueled by a growing craft beer, spirit, and cocktail scene coupled with a thrilling, infectious energy, meaning it is also a wonderful place that travelers should not miss visiting during their trip to the country.

Home to 99 million souls and a coastline spanning 2,000 miles along the country from north to south, there are plenty of people to meet and a lot to see, do, and eat in Vietnam, the article concluded.

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