Vietnam is the next big hot spot. rds ANIS RAMLI Vietnam is changing. That’s the short of it.
If its wars once defined the literary culture and shaped populist thoughts, today’s Vietnam aims to correct that perception. The country’s Orientalism mystic was never lost upon literary greats such as Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Through their lens, Vietnam was the “Far East” waiting to be discovered for its grand hotels and colonial charm. Hollywood too, has helped the Vietnamese shift. In such films such as Kong, for example, we finally the country’s wildly diverse landscapes and majestic scenery represented for what they are than beyond template for bruised battlefield.
dunes of is any and traveller’s dream. As one travels around this Southeast Asian country, the scenery can change from terraced rice fields one moment (Sapa) to the soft desert dunes of Mui Ne the next. There’s just an incredible breadth and depth to Vietnam. Itinerary favourites include Vietnam’s economic hub Ho Chi Minh City with its Old Quarter, the limestone karsts of Halong Bay, the ancient imperial capital at Hue, Hoi An’s quaint beach city of Danang, pristine Phu Quoc island and Spa the mighty Mekong Delta where the river that rushes and
d’AnNam NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2018 Princess
Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2018 Nov-Dec, pages 25-28. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.
