In this episode we delve into the vibrant yet often misunderstood city of Hanoi, While it is the capital, it often serves more as a transit point for travellers to visit other places like Halong Bay, Ninh Binh and Sapa. This is an opportunity to see Hanoi in a whole new light.

Get ready for an eye-opening conversation with my close associate and mentor, Ha, (Hannah) - a proud Hanoian professional with deep roots in the city. 

Spoiler Alert: In the show we don’t walk the well-trodden tourist paths of Hanoi. We go below the surface to uncover its Christian background: Coffee culture, and the history behind the collective living quarters of Hanoi and how the Doi Moi period has shaped Hanoi and essentially the Vietnam you are visiting today.


00:05:31 - Update on Typhoon Yagi's

00:12:00 - Discovering Hanoi Below the Surface

00:18:19 -  Catholic Heritage 

00:22:15 -  Coffee Culture

00:34:03 - Collective Living Quarters in Hanoi

00:36:26 - The Doi Moi Period



Tours

If you would be interested in pursuing a Churches tour,  Please email me 
whataboutvietnam@gmail.com
Yagi – Appeals
UNICEF - https://www.unicef.org/vietnam/unicef-emergency-appeal-typhoon-yagi-viet-nam

Blue Dragon (copy this URL and paste into your browser)...
https://www.bluedragon.org/emergency-appeal-yagi/



The Collective living quarters
https://www.tubudd.com/blog/hanoi-s-communal-housing-areas-give-a-taste-of-vietnam-past
Half a million coffee shops
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-home-to-half-a-million-coffee-shops-post292030.vnp
Vietnam rises from hardship and deep poverty
https://www.aier.org/article/how-nations-defeat-poverty/
Book  -Bridge Generation – Dau Thuy Ha & Nancy K Napier 
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Generation-Spanning-Wartime-Boomtime/dp/B08CWB7PGP.Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Generation-Spanning-Wartime-Boomtime/dp/B08CWB7PGP

Thank you to Jack Soloman Photography for his contribution.