What are the precautions for traveling to Vietnam?

Drugs

When you are away from home, you may feel unwell due to acclimatization and weather. Therefore, you should bring some commonly used drugs, such as expelling wind oil, antipyretic drugs, painkillers and medicated tape, for timely needs. If you need to take certain drugs for a long time, such as hypertension, heart disease, stomach medicine or diabetes patients, you must bring enough drugs and doctors' prescriptions just in case. Overseas pharmacies generally need a doctor's prescription to buy drugs, and the medical expenses are expensive.

Dress

Preparing clothes depends on the season. It is recommended to wear light sports shoes and casual clothes. Vietnam has a subtropical climate, with high temperature all year round, heavy rainfall in summer, hot weather and warm and dry climate in winter. Please wear sleeveless clothes when visiting Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can't wear shorts and short skirts on your lower body, and the length must be above your knees.

Custom taboos

Like most Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam attaches great importance to dress and personal hygiene. Please dress carefully and keep proper beach clothes on the beach. ? Walking in the city wearing only vests and swimming shorts, especially women, will be considered rude and despised. Naked swimming on the beaches of Vietnam is also unacceptable; Vietnamese are a very sensitive ethnic group. Holding hands, touching and friendly patting are common ways to show politeness and friendliness. Men usually shake hands while women can't.

language

Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam, Cantonese is widely used in Chinatown in the north and south of Vietnam, English is very popular in Vietnam, and some elderly people speak French quite well. Hotel waiters can speak a little Chinese.

communication

China GSM mobile phone with international roaming can be used in Vietnam, or you can buy a GSM card that is commonly used in Vietnam. The local GMS card is free to answer any calls in Vietnam. Calling domestic mobile phones or fixed-line phones in Vietnam is 1.1 cents every six seconds. It costs 8 yuan RMB per minute to directly call back to China, and each text message costs 1.1 yuan RMB, but the recharge charge can be as low as 2%. It costs about 4 yuan RMB per minute to make a local street call back to China, and it is slightly cheaper to dial 171 or 178. The postage in Vietnam is relatively cheap, and you can send postcards to any place in China as long as 11,4 Vietnamese dong.

Vietnam

Geography:

Located in the east of Indochina Peninsula, it borders China in the north, Laos and Cambodia in the west, and faces the South China Sea in the east and south. The coastline is more than 326 kilometers long. The whole country of Vietnam is about 331,688 square kilometers. The terrain includes hills and dense forests, with the flat area not exceeding 2%, mountainous area accounting for 4%, hills accounting for 4% and forests accounting for 75%. The northern region consists of plateau and red river delta. The eastern part is divided into coastal lowlands, long mountains and highlands, and the Mekong River Delta.

Time zone:

7 hours earlier than GMT; 1 hour later than Beijing time

Currency:

Vietnamese dong.