our first trip to vietnam, so we decided to start in hanoi, go north and work our way down to saigon (and phu quoc!). we%26#39;re just leaving now, and we found amongst our fellow travellers that there was a lot of disgreement as to which of the nig cities was best... the lonely planet%26#39;s description of saigon is not very flattering (stating it lacks the charm of ha noi) but my wife and i beg to differ. the hospitality and friendliness of the average person on the street, the wider streets and the overall better historical buildings tipped the scale in saigons favour for us. bearing that in mind that it was january when we were in ha noi and also just prior to tet, so it was mad.
while we prefered saigon, that%26#39;s not to say that we wouldn%26#39;t go back to hanoi in the future - just not for as long as we did the first time around.
interested to hear others thoughts.
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