Elly in China Town

Lack of air. About 20 minutes up the Mekong we headed along a narrow tributary to encounter life up river. Farmers live on combination fish and rice farms, generating an average of $29 a month, while small family businesses survive making rice cakes, rice paper and potent rice wine. A heritage time capsule, this living museum of Vietnamese culture offers visitors the tranquility many need as an antidote to the mania of the country's cities, and from their lives back home. where Elly stay.

Elly have just fortunately experienced the small town of Hoi An in Central Vietnam, is an china town during my holiday which I booked with Haivenu Vietnam Tour. The ancient port town, a UNESCO world heritage site, is a key element in any visit to Vietnam. The Mekong starts in China and flows through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Nakhon Phanom city (City of Hills) is on the banks of the Mekong. China town in Vietnam, During the Second Vietnam War (1954 - 1975), the United States maintained several air bases in Thailand from which air strikes were launched against North Vietnam. Back in 1963, Nakhon Phanom was a small border town with dirt roads and a small air strip near town. Elly visit to Nakhon Phanom city, a modern city today, can't help but notice the Vietnamese influence. There're a number of Vietnamese restaurants in town. In the city outskirts there's a Thai-Vietnamese Friendship Village in Ban Na Chok with a Vietnamese cemetery. Vietnamese migration to Thailand began as early as 18th - 19th C when Catholics fleeing religious persecution settled here. Ho Chi Minh's house near Ban Na Chok, the Thai - Vietnamese Friendship Village, is now preserved as a museum. Ho Chi Minh became President of North Vietnam from 1945 till 1969 when he died at 79. Ho Chi Minh's house in Nakhon Phanom bears silent witness to the early days of that long struggle.