Ho Chi Minh City Tips & articles

Tips & articles

  1. Most lip-smacking street food

    18 March 2012

    Lunch tastes best from a curb-side cart: grab your fork or simply use your fingers, and munch your way through...

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  2. Vietnam: travel books to read before you go

    01 October 2010

    This excerpt from Lonely Planet’s Vietnam guide provides a selection of travel literature to get you in the mood for...

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  3. Your favourite destinations September 3rd-11th

    14 September 2009

    You may have noticed around the Lonely Planet website that you can save your favourite places. The destinations that come...

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  4. Top 10 Vietnam movies

    24 July 2009

    Michael Caine struggles, Marlon Brando snaps, Robert De Niro survives. This is the best of Vietnam on celluloid.Indochine (1992) ...

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  5. Starry night: top five art hotels

    13 July 2009

    In the words of Oscar Wilde on his death bed: ‘Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.’If art matters to...

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