Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
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Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
Yeah I went to Halong Bay around 8 years ago and wasn't impressed. After a boat ride from Cat Ba national park through to Halong (we were coming via Haifong), we decided we'd had enough and just drove on to the next town to sleep. Didn't even have an urge to visit the city.
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Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
Cross that off the list. And that's it, Bucket List completed! New List: Smoke joint, try an E, move on to heavier stuff; charlie and lcd, hard stuff, try every alcohol beverage available. Day 2...Empty bucket.Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:02 am Yeah I went to Halong Bay around 8 years ago and wasn't impressed. After a boat ride from Cat Ba national park through to Halong (we were coming via Haifong), we decided we'd had enough and just drove on to the next town to sleep. Didn't even have an urge to visit the city.
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Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
No thanks. I'll happily visit Vietnam again once possible, but I've never been interested in Phu Quoc and now it's looking even worse than I had imagined.
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Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
Money ruined the world, I mean it made it better but it also made it worse
Slow down little world, you're changing too fast.
Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
This is just the way the Vietnamese roll throughout the country. A vacant piece of land is begging to be developed with little sense of conservation, historical preservation, long-term planning or coordination with the surrounding areas. In the end, it's not that different from other developing countries. As mentioned, it's mostly for the locals or other Asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc.). Western tourists account for a very small percentage of international tourists to VN.clutchcargo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:22 pm
Thousands of hotel rooms, condotel units, and row upon row of cookie-cutter shophouses, villas, and residences are being built as far as the eye can see.
“They’ve got more rooms than Sydney, Australia. There’s something like 30,000 hotel rooms, built, under construction, or in the planning stage,” said Atkinson, whose firm provides financial advisory and transaction support to investors. “That’s excluding Vingroup’s 12,000 additional rooms, and before all the condotels, villa developments and residences, which means at least 40,000 hotel rooms.”
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Most of the projects appear to be aimed at the fast-growing Vietnam middle-class. Many of their websites are in Vietnamese. The vast majority of the five million visitors who visited in 2019 were locals, said the experts interviewed for this article.
I’m afraid that Phu Quoc can’t be as natural with fresh air, beautiful beach and forest as it used to be,’ a Phu Quoc resident told Insider.
Here's are a couple of similar stories in an urban context:
HCMC museum’s century-old buildings face threat from skyscraper construction
https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/culture/h ... 65199.html
77 architects file petition against Da Lat makeover plan
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/77-ar ... 09938.html
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Yes, the development leaves a lot to be desired. This monstrosity was built in Sa Pa, where I live. Caused a shit-storm on social media and had to be taken down.
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I'm not surprised it was taken down Hanno. It's absolutely horrendous. To think that someone laid out good coin for it beggars belief! I mean, really! What on earth inspired someone to build that?
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Shouldn't it look like this? Don't know what message is trying to be conveyed here
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Re: Phu Quoc, no longer the 'last paradise' of Vietnam?
Well, the same place built this (it also had to come down):Calypso dancer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 6:04 pm I'm not surprised it was taken down Hanno. It's absolutely horrendous. To think that someone laid out good coin for it beggars belief! I mean, really! What on earth inspired someone to build that?
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Never been... would like to check it out one day, that said, I've never understood SE-Asia's need to try to build up tourist destination at a rapid pace... it tends to kill what made these places special, turning off the tourist that would normally return and the new hotels that were built often don't last long.
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