{"id":173,"date":"2024-01-14T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/igoogledvietnam.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-11-11T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:30:48","slug":"vietnam-first-impressions-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/vietnam-first-impressions-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: First impressions count!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Saigon-scooters-igv-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Saigon-motorbike\" class=\"wp-image-135\" style=\"width:430px;height:286px\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>When arriving in Vietnam for the first time, expect a bit of an overload on your ol&#8217; senses!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve written up a quick <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/arriving-in-vietnam-what-to-expect\/\">guide of the things to look out for, especially when arriving at the airport<\/a><\/strong>, but here we&#8217;ve collected a few of the more primal impressions you might get of this amazing country within your first day or two&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Horns, horns, horns!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excellent coffee, especially the <a href=\"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/cafe-sua-da-vietnamese-iced-coffee\/\">iced <strong>cafe sua da<\/strong><\/a>!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Motorbikes simply everywhere!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The heat!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The lust for your hairy arms!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The friendly locals!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The excellent street food!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s as cheap as chips!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fish sauce!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Trash everywhere!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The locals shouting at each other!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crowing cockerels at 04:00 &#8211; in the middle of the city!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beautiful Vietnamese girls in their Ao Dai!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stunning views!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Did we forget something?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<span class=\"cb-button cb-red cb-large cb-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/top-10-essential-things-to-see-do-in-vietnam\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow\">Don&#8217;t miss our guide to the <strong>very BEST things to see in Vietnam!<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When arriving in Vietnam for the first time, expect a bit of an overload on your ol&#8217; senses! We&#8217;ve written up a quick guide of the things to look out for, especially when arriving at the airport, but here we&#8217;ve collected a few of the more primal impressions you might get of this amazing country within your first day or two&#8230; Horns, horns, horns! Excellent coffee, especially the iced cafe sua da! Motorbikes simply everywhere! The heat! The lust for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[40,30],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-getting-around","tag-beginner","tag-vietnam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogogovietnam.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}