![]() ![]() ![]() Saigon's beautiful Central Post Office is one of the city's most charming buildings. It isn’t petrol that’s required, however, but the deliciously rich and potent filter-coffee known as cà phê phin. Somewhere near Hỏa Lò Prison Museum ( 1 Hỏa Lò St, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi City 10000 +84 4 3934 2253) – once known, with icy humor, as the “Hanoi Hilton” – Cuong stops to refuel. ![]() The Jeep rumbles down a side street and within minutes Cuong is passing the colonial facade of the venerable Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi where Graham Greene penned “The Quiet American” and where Jane “Hanoi Jane” Fonda experienced the terror of B52 bombs ( 15 Phố Ngô Quyền, French Quarter, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi City 10000 +84 24 3826 6919). The best cities for visitors are often those that can be tackled in bite-sized chunks and Hanoi, the City of Lakes, is so neatly divided up by water that this metropolis of almost 8 million people often feels more like a sprawling chain of interlinked villages. Known as the Lake of the Restored Sword, Hoàn Kiếm is perhaps the most beautiful of Hanoi’s 20 lakes and is home to a mythical giant golden turtle. and then someĬuong Phung, who once guided Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman around his hometown, presses the accelerator as the Jeep cruises around the shoreline of Hoàn Kiếm Lake. ![]()
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