Vietnam

[MaximusExcelsior]

Yup. That's cos they're poor and have to get their protein from something. If you've been to Thailand you should be used to some of the idiosyncrasies of the region. Go with your gut feelings and don't spend any more than $10USD on anything without thinking it through very carefully first. Speak to the longer term travellers you meet out there and they'll be able to give you solid guidance.

 

Food and people make a country, scenery gets a bit boring after a while. If you find a guest house you 'feel' comfortable in, just stay there the week and soak up the local atmosphere. It's better than trying to cram in lots of sights. (For information, my,[now], wife and I spent 30 months travelling around Asia and Australasia a few years back).

 

Nice one man. Cheers for the information, I gathered it would be fairly similar to Thailand. 30 months that's incredible, I had a working holiday in Australia myself and hoping to one day return permanently.

[MaximusExcelsior]

Like it .." gut feeling "

 

Making me nervous you are haha

[Eddy_t]

Yup. That's cos they're poor and have to get their protein from something. If you've been to Thailand you should be used to some of the idiosyncrasies of the region. Go with your gut feelings and don't spend any more than $10USD on anything without thinking it through very carefully first. Speak to the longer term travellers you meet out there and they'll be able to give you solid guidance.

 

Food and people make a country, scenery gets a bit boring after a while. If you find a guest house you 'feel' comfortable in, just stay there the week and soak up the local atmosphere. It's better than trying to cram in lots of sights. (For information, my,[now], wife and I spent 30 months travelling around Asia and Australasia a few years back).

 

Yeah, max, remember its $5 and they do it long time in 'nam

 

 

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[Paul Jenks]

Like it .." gut feeling "

 

The busy market stalls are usually the best places to eat as they have a big turnover. Go where the locals eat and you'll have minimal 'gut' issues. One usually gets a bit of 'Delhi' belly when travelling between countries as the local symbiotic bacteria change and it takes a while to get used to it.

 

The best curry we had was from a stall in a very grotty back street in Penang. Rats running over our feet as we ate it from banana leaves. As an aside, for 3 nights there was a running battle in our hotel room between a mouse and a cockroach. Eventually the mouse won and we found a beast of a roach under the bed, dead and on it's back, so we left some chocolate for the mouse.