Vietnam is known for its plethora of stunning natural landscapes, quaint villages, museums, untouched islets, ancient citadels and colonial structures. The unique blend of the east and the west makes major cities like Hanoi and Saigon special vibes that you will fall in love with.

On your Vietnam visit, there are many things that you can do to make your visit a life time experience. Here are Best Things to do in Vietnam in Less Than 24 hours

1. Enjoying aromatic street foods

Street food is one of the best highlights of Vietnam travel that impress every single tourist and visitor. Internationally, Vietnamese food is recognized for its culinary uniqueness, aromatic flavors, and fresh ingredients. You can consider a culinary adventure to enjoy the Vietnamese flavors, colors, and textures of street food.

Saigon, the biggest city in Southern Vietnam, is considered to be the best street food capital where every night thousands of informal eateries serve hundreds of dishes to food lovers.

2.Trekking in Sapa or Fansipan

Once known as the colonial hill station, Sapa in Vietnam is the mountainous town that is located in the Northwest region. Sapa is known for its picturesque scenery such as the bamboo forests, rolling Green valleys, ethnic minority villages and patchwork terraced fields.

You can also do trekking on the Vietnam’s highest mountain, Fansipan, which is said to be one of best trekking route in less than 24 hours. While you are trekking on the mountain, ensure you have a standard backpack, for example, a sling backpack. It allows you to effortlessly shift your backpack from behind your back to the side of your hips or to your front, to give your back a rest.

3. Cycling along the countryside

You can explore the small and beautiful towns in Vietnam by riding a bike that will help in learning more about the Vietnamese culture and the lifestyle of the locals in less than 24 hours.
During your Vietnam visit, you can ride a bike to have the utmost fun and enjoyment while discovering the beautiful locations and stunning attractions. Nature lovers don’t miss on this cycle Ride as it will mark a perfect end your visit.

4. Shopping Around the market Like a Local

Local markets are one of the main attractions, which a visitor or tourist should explore. The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is a home to the most bountiful, colorful and frenzied markets in the country. In this market, you will get an opportunity to shop like a local with great bargaining skill to buy some exotic fruit.

5. Visiting the Chill Sky bar for a night treat

The great place- Chill Skybar offers the most beautiful view of Ho Chi Minh City, where you can enjoy an all night long party. If you are a party addict and want to discover the famous Vietnamese nightlife, then the Chill Skybar is the right place to explore and have fun.

6. Cruising along the Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta is known as Vietnam’s Rice Bowl that has a diverse vegetative life and rugged landscape. While cruising along the Mekong Delta, you will get lost in the labyrinth of canals lined with mangrove forest, agricultural plots, and the floating markets. Drifting down these waterways has become one of the best tourist activities to do in Vietnam in less than 24 hours.

Conclusion

By booking a guided Vietnam tour, you will get a chance to enjoy a memorable holiday trip. You can rely on a reputable tour operator or agencies to get the best deals on booking a Vietnam travel or tour package to have the utmost fun and enjoyment. With a reliable tour operator, you will get the assistance of experienced guides to indulge in lovely scenery and exciting activities
to do in less than 24 hours.

About the author: Ryan Smith is a full-time traveller and founder of MrAbroad.com, where he turns his passion into interesting information for travel lovers. MrAbroad focuses on travel destinations, helpful tips&tricks. It is built to inspire you to live a life full of adventure, joy and experience.

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Have you a travel sheet in you bag or backpack? You should have one.  Travel sheet is an extremely lightweight and roomy sleep sack or sleeping bag liner.  It adds warmth and  keep your sleeping bag clean. Thought it is called sleeping bag liner travelers can use it in hostel or hotel beds were their have doubts about hygiene of these places.  It also makes a great airport/travel cover blanket.  It easy to clean as it is machine washable and colorfast.
Of course these sheet are in a lot of different sizes and fabric. It can be mummy shape or rectangle, with zipper or without it, made from cotton or  micro fiber.

The prices start at 15US$ and goes up to 50-60US$. I am using cheapest cotton travel sheet(like this one) and am very happy with it as it doesn’t take much space in my luggage. I am packing it right now for my trip to India.

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Paper travel soap? What is that? Did you hear about such soap before? I also found about it only recently. Soap and paper? Hmm…I hadn’t used it yet myself, but it works by reviews I read. It should be fantastic item in the backpack. It is light to carry, there are no issue to bring it through security at airports, because it is just paper. It is very simple to use, as you just simply add water and you have a soap. I found only one issue with paper soap – you must touch it only with dry hands, as otherwise all sheets of paper soap can become wet. You don’t want this to happen (you can read more reviews here from buyers’ at amazon). Other then that paper travel soap is probably must to have item in any backpackers’ backpack.

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Isn’t it cool? It is not such effective as compression sacs, but it would be very useful  if you are on long term (Round The World) backpacking trip and need clothes for all kind of weather. This sacs won’t help much to compress t-shirt, but sweaters  or jackets  will take less space within it.  You can buy such sacs at amazon.com. It cost only 10-15$US depending on size. But be careful to check size first before buying any of these bags as larger ones may not fit inside your backpack, so should choose it depending on size of backpack.

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I am in no doubt that in most cases you don’t need backpack then you are “backpacking”. What is definition of backpacking according wikipedia – “use of public transport as a means of travel, preference of youth hostels to traditional hotels, length of the trip vs. conventional vacations, use of a backpack, an interest in meeting the locals as well as seeing the sights.” Of course there are other descriptions of this term and all of them will include “use of a backpack”, but for me backpacking first of all associates with budget travel. Do I need to have backpack to travel on budget?

It is already more then 3 years when I left my home and travel from place to place. I didn’t know for how long I will be on the road, but because I was planning to stay in hostels and other budget places, so first thought in mind was – I will backpacking so I need big backpack for my trip. So I bought MEC Ibex 80 Backpack. It is nice backpack and there are full range of similar backpacks with internal frame. But couple months after beginning of my trip I started to think how many times I needed to use that backpack as BACKpack…The answer was – none.
Usually it was short walks to public transport or hostel, or leaving it somewhere at luggage storage. So I realized I didn’t need backpack. One big disadvantage of backpacks – top unloading/loading. I tried to put most often used items on the top, but almost everyday I needed something from the bottom. Although this backpack has access at the bottom, so wasn’t so bad, but at least one repack per day was usual routine. I can live with that, but so called hybrid bags would make life much easier. There are simple bags which can be used as backpacks or one shoulder bags or backpack with wheels. These bags are heavier then usual backpacks, but backpacks has many different straps on outside so you will need such thing as airport tote for you bag protection during loading into plane or on the bus. This will add some additional weight to your total, but it still probably will be lighter then hybrid back (especial one with wheels) and with all weight restrictions on budget airlines it can be issue.

So next time you will be looking for backpack think about such thing:

• Will you go trekking on your trip.
• If just day trips, may be all you need is daypack?
• If it will be multi-day trekking, may be you can rent suitable backpack in the place you start your trekking?
• If you decide go ahead with hybrid bag, check weight and how it feels on you back. Of course it won’t be very comfortable, but good enough for short distances.
• Do you need bag with wheels?

Would be interesting to hear your thought about backpacking gear – what kind and why you are using it.

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