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Gate 1: Vietnam 12 Days Review

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I just go back from my trip to Vietnam with Gate 1 for 12 days. My schedule was changed since I arrived earlier to Vietnam to visit my friend's relatives. My schedule was a bit different compared to the rest in the tour group since we were done with jet lag and were already in Vietnam for a few days by the time the tour started. My Gate 1 tour guide was Hai. He is very thorough in his explanations. There were some jokes that I didn't necessarily appreciate (for example, how he explained how to do tai chi, or when we went to the village and he imitated the elderly woman's 3 level Hanoi accent), but in terms of his explanations and doing his job, he was very good. After the tour, he apologized if there were some things he said that we may not agree with him but he is just saying facts. Which he meant about the facts with China, since there were people on the tour of Chinese descent. However those items, felt more like facts and from a Vietnam perspective (maybe even So...