In this episode we delve into the vibrant yet often misunderstood city of Hanoi. While it is the capital, it often serves more as a transit point for travellers to visit other places like Halong Bay, Ninh Binh and Sapa. This is an opportunity to see Hanoi in a whole new light.
I hope you enjoy this insightful conversation with my close associate, Ha (Hannah), a proud Hanoian with deep roots in the city.

Spoiler Alert: In the show we don’t walk the well-trodden tourist paths of Hanoi.
We go below the surface to uncover its Christian background: Coffee culture, and the history behind the collective living quarters of Hanoi and how the Doi Moi period has shaped Hanoi and essentially the Vietnam you are visiting today.

00:05:31 - Update on Typhoon Yagi
00:12:00 - Discovering Hanoi Below the Surface
00:18:19 -  Catholic Heritage
00:22:15 -  Coffee Culture
00:34:03 - Collective Living Quarters in Hanoi
00:36:26 - The Doi Moi Period

Tours
Churches tour,  Please email me [email protected]

Yagi – Appeals

Links UNICEF - Blue Dragon

Link - The Collective living quarters

 Half a million coffee shops

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-home-to-half-a-million-coffee-shops-post292030.vnp

Vietnam rises from deep poverty

Book  -The Bridge Generation of Việt Nam (Spanning Wartime to Boomtime)
Dau Thuy Ha & Nancy K Napier 

Other Hanoi Episodes - S3-E9, S4-E9, S4-E10,

Thank you to Jack Soloman Photography for his contribution.

 

 

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