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...Like so much else in Vietnam, the trail is changing. A few kilometers from Van and Luc's home, a construction crew is pouring fresh tar. They are building the new Ho Chi Minh Highway, a $353 million, 1,241-km project scheduled to open any day now. It traces one of the main north-south trunks of the original trail and will also open up dozens of arteries previously off-limits to tourists. We set out on rugged Minsk motorcycles, eager to explore...
...card reveals he's a manager in a state-run tourism company. But we're wondering if he's a government spy. He seems strangely jittery about us talking to people on the road. And then there's his hair. In two years working as a correspondent in Vietnam, I've developed a private theory about communist officials and combovers: the lower the part, the higher the rank...
...TRAVEL Vietnam: The Road to Redemption...
...American. I was five when the war ended. I'm not the daughter of a U.S. veteran, nor do I remember TV coverage of the war. I don't have any connection to Vietnam other than working in the country as a journalist. But I am still uncomfortable as I place the incense. I find myself smiling at the girls in the photos and silently apologizing to them...
...then, there's plenty of tenacity in the country these days. You can see it in the smooth, blacktop highways and freshly paved mountain passes of the new Vietnam. Step off them for a short while and you might encounter the old, glimpsing rain clouds rolling over banana plantations, with miles of jungle all around. And you can always run into recent history-outside Khe Sanh, we find a remnant of the old trail, untouched for decades and made up of 10 kilometers of jagged rock that's hell to drive, even on a Minsk...