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Nature has blessed Vietnam with a bountiful harvest of soaring mountains, a
killer coastline and radiant rice fields, Vietnam is a cracker. Inland,
peasant women in conical hats still tend to their fields, children ride
buffalos along country paths and minority people scratch out a living from
impossible gradients.
Vietnam is a nation of determined optimists who have weathered war after
war, survived colonialism and communism, and are now getting to grips with
the wheeler-dealer world of capitalism. Fiercely protective of their
independence and sovereignty, the Vietnamese are graciously welcoming of
foreigners who come as guests not conquerors.
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