Bound for Vietnam (2010)
Bound for Vietnam
“Vietnam remains a police state and I was afraid that, particularly in the north, I would be viewed with animosity and suspicion. After ousting the French in 1954, the communist government isolated itself from the west. Travellers have only been gradually allowed to enter the country since 1991 and very few had come over land borders. The word ‘Vietnam’ was to me, as it still is to many westerners, synonymous with a dreadful and bitter war. No one ever mentioned that the country was beautiful an...d the people gracious, hospitable and kind. Once I realised this, the war seemed all the more terrible.
And the guidebook gave the operation of crossing a land border very bad reviews. North Vietnamese Communist officials are notoriously xenophobic and frontier guards were said to be hostile. They had been known to refuse travellers entry for no valid reason, as well as give them a hard time about the contents of their luggage. I had even risked my tape recordings in the Chinese mail rather than chance them being confiscated, as I had read could happen.MoreLess
And the guidebook gave the operation of crossing a land border very bad reviews. North Vietnamese Communist officials are notoriously xenophobic and frontier guards were said to be hostile. They had been known to refuse travellers entry for no valid reason, as well as give them a hard time about the contents of their luggage. I had even risked my tape recordings in the Chinese mail rather than chance them being confiscated, as I had read could happen.MoreLess
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