What to bring from Vietnam?

Basically, Vietnam is famous for folk crafts. Jewelry, costume jewelery, clothes and all sorts of souvenir knick-knacks can be bought both in shops and in markets. Prices in Vietnam are quite affordable, besides, it is not forbidden to bargain for the thing you like.

For most tourists it's just unthinkableto visit another country and not try the local cuisine, and the most delicious (and not perishable) dishes to buy for souvenirs. What to bring from Vietnam as delicious souvenirs? You can buy exotic fruits, which we have problematic: longan, lychee, mangosteen. If you are afraid not to take them home, fruit chips and candies with lotus seeds or coconut milk sweets.

We recommend buying an extreme a bottle of snake tincture. Imagine a bottle of vodka, in whichfloating snake or salamander. Presented? That's what snake tincture looks like. In the East, it is believed that it is able to heal from all ills. Even if you do not dare to try this exotic drink, a bottle of tincture can be put in the kitchen or in a home bar and shock guests. And from nonalcoholic beverages we recommend Vietnamese green tea (the most popular grade of Vietnamese tea is Thay Nguyen) and inexpensive Vietnamese coffee.

But delicious souvenirs quickly eat, so it's worth to bring from Vietnam and something more "material", for example, jewelry. In every Vietnamese market you can buy elegant and inexpensive jewelry made of silver, ivory and pearls. By the way, sea pearls are more valuable than river pearls. It is best to buy pearl items in Nha Trang. Be careful when buying, so instead of pearls you do not slip the colored plastic.

Back in Vietnam inexpensive and very high quality silk, so you can buy silk clothes, fanand even embroidered on silk painting. It is best to buy silk in branded stores in factories. You can also buy or sew to order clothes made from natural flax and cotton. Relatively inexpensive are and quality Crocodile leather products (purse, purses, bags, belts). And still it is necessary to bring from Vietnam famous slippers-Vietnamese.

As pleasant knickknacks can be brought from Vietnam various products of bamboo and mahogany: figurines, frames, boxes, wall decorations. Also, popular souvenirs include inexpensive dishes made of porcelain painted with hieroglyphs, Buddha statues made of bronze, ivory tubes, lacquer miniatures, fans, national dolls. Every other market sells coconut and bamboo handmade masks that express different emotions.

But this is not all Vietnamese souvenirs, which can be purchased in memory of a trip to this country. In the markets and in the shops sell paintedhand-made greeting cards, chopsticks, napkins, tablecloths and fabric warmers, caskets with silk-covered covers, badminton badges made of real feathers, kitchen accessories from coconuts, rope hammocks and silk lanterns that fans of Max Fry's books will be reminded of flying bubbles Bouruchri.

Another typical Vietnamese souvenir is a conical hat made of palm leaves. Men can buy themselves instead"Colonizer" cork helmet. And music lovers should pay attention to musical instruments: flutes, maracas, bamboo xylophones and brass gongs. Even if you do not play, such a tool can become a wonderful decoration of the interior. The interior will also be decorated with rattan and pagoda wicker items, chickens and caskets carved from stone.

As you can see, the choice of souvenirs that can be brought from Vietnam is very wide. If you add to this also low prices, it becomes clear that in addition to souvenirs you will need to purchase more and additional bags or suitcases ... or throw away some of your clothes.