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The extreme Himalayan hillsides  lower to Vietnam and here extend in a great arch, modeling
plateaus and valleys where dozens of ethnic groups of the great Tibetan family live: Thai, Muong, H'mong, Yao and many others. In the uncontaminated silences of the mounts still lives, unaffected in the centuries, the ancestral way of life and tribal customs. Through the mountains, runs solemn the Red River, where three centuries before Christ was possible to see the old Kingdom of Au Lac. This is the cradle of the Vietnamese millennial culture. Today Hanoi is a modern metropolis but it is enough to walk in the streets around the Lake of the Returned Sword to find the splendid testimonies of its past: temples and pagodas of the XI century that still count the myths of the Vietnamese people. Myths that become wonderful natural shows as in Halong where a thousand of disseminated splendid cliffs and headlands are the flakes of the dragons that precipitated in the sea. The coasts of this stupendous Sea of the East, lowering toward South, draw stupendous uncontaminated white beaches, with palms and the colors of the ships, and at the back the profile of the ethereal tower-sanctuary of the old Cham. Where the East Sea   insinuates its waters in the Gulf of Siam, the Mekong, Mother of the Waters, spreads its immense delta creating Nine Dragons. The nine river arms where junks and sampans lower among riversides and where the magic green of nature explodes. At the border of the delta Chinese emigrants founded a market, called burgo Saigon. The French made of it their “Perla” of the Empire, covering it with colonial attractiveness; today is a stupendous and dynamic metropolis projected in the XXI century where a futuristic architecture ascends toward the sky spreading its shade between mysterious Taoist temples and Gustave Eiffel modernist works, noisy Chinese markets, austere Buddhist pagodas, imperial colonial constructions that watch streets where the desire of having a good time and enjoy life explodes. The long war that has revived on the film screens and on the pages of the novels is only a memory that is possible to discover only searching for it trough prints and book or going to Cu Chi, the underground citadel of the Vietcong. The History of the future is, on the other hand, already write: it is the one that runs under our eyes in each corner of this stupendous country. 
 
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