{"id":4377,"date":"2022-08-01T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelcommunityhub.com\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T01:01:26","slug":"im-on-a-plane-a-visit-to-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcommunityhub.com\/im-on-a-plane-a-visit-to-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m On A Plane!”\u200b A Visit To Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I\u2019ve just arrived home from a whirlwind week in Vietnam that was hosted by Bamboo Airways<\/em> and their parent company FLC Group<\/em>. In that time we visited Ha Long Bay and the capital Hanoi, before flying south to a rapidly developing destination in Quy Nhon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n But I have to tell you, before we start, that whilst I left home with a plan to review the flights, accommodation and other details that some find exceptionally important, everything changed very rapidly. Instead I’ve returned feeling privileged to have visited a country that is still easing its way back into tourism, having witnessed first hand the effect that this is having on the people we ran into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Never, not ever once in my life, have I felt so welcomed in a destination. More experienced Vietnam travellers will readily tell you that it was always this way, and they would be quite right, but there was definitely something<\/em> extra in the air. I felt it on the streets, in the hotels, in the restaurants and indeed everywhere we visited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thankfully I managed to capture some of that vibe on camera, and am including one or two such instances here without this becoming a travel blog. In the snap I\u2019ve chosen as the headline picture above, an elderly man sprang up from his chair to enthusiastically bound over and welcome us to Hanoi and Vietnam. He\u2019s pictured shortly after embracing Greg Wilson of Wide-Eyed Tours<\/em> and announcing how wonderful it was to start seeing visitors again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You remember these things. More so now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n