HANOI

I have lived in Germany for almost 17 years now and every time I go back to Vietnam, it is always to visit my grand parents and my big family. Never have I really travelled through my own country, especially with a backpack. It is exciting because I get to see Vietnam from a whole different perspective. And it is apparently very rare for a Vietnamese girl to travel alone, staying in mixed hostel dorms and living out of a backpack. It's considered weird. But I never said I was (a) normal (Vietnamese girl) either.