Hand in the completed Arrival/Departure Card with your passport and duplicate visa application form at immigration in Vietnam. The Departure Card will be returned to you. Keep this safely. You usually have to show it when checking into hotels and will be asked for it in when you finally leave Vietnam.

You should list all valuable items on the Baggage Declaration form, such as video cameras, portable computers and expensive jewellery. The duty-free allowance is 200 cigarettes, 2 litres of alcohol plus perfume and jewellery for personal use. You can take up to US $7000 into Vietnam in cash or travellers’ cheques; anything in excess of this sum has to be declared.

Hand the completed Baggage Declaration form to the customs official checking your baggage, who will give you the yellow duplicate – again, keep this carefully as it is required on final departure. (NB. You have to show your baggage check when reclaiming your luggage at the airport on arrival; the stub should be attached to either your airline ticket or boarding pass.)

Finally, it’s a good idea to make photocopies of your Departure Card and Baggage Declaration form at your hotel and keep them separately, just in case you lose the originals. They won’t be accepted in place of the real thing, but may make things slightly easier.

Areas needing attention are nutrition, basic health, fresh (safe) water, aid to handicapped, school tuition for children, and support of poor families. Problems associated with unsafe water are particularly serious. Fresh water in rivers and streams in Vietnam is often a source of cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, and amoebiasis. Tragically, unsafe water is also beginning to cause cases of poliomyelitis, eliminated long ago in the United States. Safe fresh-water wells can be placed in operation for as little as $700 each.

Poor children in Vietnam also need charitable assistance if they expect to go to school, since families must pay tuition for them to attend. Charities at work in Vietnam believe that the children of today, particularly those who are orphans or who have been abandoned, need extra help to grow and to become productive members in Vietnamese society. Most charities devote 90 percent or more of contributions toward programs to directly aid children. Contributors to charities that benefit Vietnamese children often include American veterans of the Vietnam conflict and naturalized Vietnamese-Americans. Others include religious groups and individuals who wish to do something positive to alleviate the plight of orphans.

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The magazine quoted the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) as saying in the latest annual survey that Viet Nam moved up from sixth to fourth place in the league table of the world’s fastest-growing destinations. Last year it had 4.2 million foreign visitors, 16 percent more than in 2006. After the backpackers and a few nostalgic American war veterans, tourists with fatter wallets are now arriving in large numbers.

A fair chunk of the foreign investment currently pouring into Vietnam is going into new hotels, resorts and golf courses, many aiming at the top end of the market, the magazine added.

It attributed the country’s attraction not only to endless stretching and untouched beaches, but also to ancient civilisations such as the vanished Hindu Champa culture; quaint tribal villages with wooden stilt-houses, colourful festivals and craftwork, historic cities and churches from French colonial times; war sites like the Cu Chi tunnels and the grisly but informative museum on the site of the My Lai massacre; and enormous potential for ecotourism, with many new species still being discovered in the remote forested mountains.

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Every year, Quang Binh attracts many visitors coming to interesting landscapes such as Phong Nha, Tien Son caves, primitive forest in Phong Nha – Ke Bang reserve, Nhat Le, Da Nhay beaches, Bang Mineral Hot Spring, etc. Among of them, Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park has been recognized as the World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003.

In addition of these, Quang Binh preserves objects from Bau Tro Remains, Hoa Binh and Dong Son culture as well as historical relics like Quang Binh Gate, Luy Thay, Rao Sen… Many places related two resistance wars name Cu Nam, Canh Duong, Cha Lo, Cong Troi, Xuan Son, Long Dai and Ho Chi Minh Trail.

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But in all seriousness, these people have a tough enough daily life as it is without the additional effects of extreme environmental pollution to deal with too. The Ba Bo Canal has been intensely polluted by toxic wastewater discharged from nearby industrial parks since 2004, with no policy remedy on the horizon. The government really makes a concerted effort to tackle with these pollution issues before it’s too late.

Some quick numbers at a glance for Ba Bo Canal:
2000-3000 local households affected by pollution at Ba Bo Canal
9600-15,000 cubic meters of toxic industrial wastewater discharged into the canal per day
22,000 times over the permissible level of toxins released into the canal

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Thanh Hoa is rather large and populous province in Central Viet Nam, located where the Vietnamese territory begins to narrow. This ancient land is where the Dong Son culture developed more than 10,000 years ago.

Nghe An is a land of outstanding folk culture and traditional festivals which take place on the river. Many great revolutionary patriots are native from Nghe An Province, including president Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), the leader of the Vietnamese nation. Many other outstanding revolutionaries and great patriots such as Phan Dinh Phung, Phan Boi Chau, Le Hong Phong, Pham Hong Thai are also natives of North-Central Viet Nam, as well as Poet Nguyen Du (1765-1820), author of The Tale of Kieu and Nguyen Cong Tru (1778-1858), a talented strategic thinker who helped the population claim sea-battered lands in the districts of Kim Son (Ninh Binh) and Tien Hai (Thai Binh).

In Ha Tinh is a crossroad named Dong Loc, immortalizing the years of resistance against the American. Several significant sites can be found in Quang Binh Province such as Ly Hoa beauty spot, Da Nhay and Nhat Le Beaches, and Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park has been recognized as a natural World Heritage by UNESCO.

In Quang Tri, the remains from one of the most famous wars in history, the ancient citadel of Quang Tri, Khe Sanh Combat Base, Truong Son National Cemetery, Vinh Moc Tunnels, the Hien Luong Bridge, and the Ben Hai River.

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