I enjoyed reading your post and seeing the colorful photos. North Vietnam looks so interesting. Ten years ago I visited south Vietnam and had such an interesting time. I traveled down through the Mekong Delta with a group of surgeons who go there regularly to teach at the Can Tho university. I volunteered to teach art to 165 children in a shelter in Ho Chi Minh City, but also found time to visit Hue, and then a trip to Angkor in Cambodia. I've always had a desire to return again to visit northern Vietnam, Halong Bay, Sapa, and arounds those mountain areas with the beautiful terraced rice fields. Such a beautiful and interesting country.