This title features essays and travel stories from one of the world's most popular back-packer destinations. "Travelers' Tales Vietnam, Including Laos and Cambodia" features essays and travel stories about a land that has transformed from war, devastation and cultural conflict to a popular and welcoming destination for travellers of all nationalities. In these pages the reader explores the ancient Khmer site of Angkor Wat, the otherworldly Plain of Jars, the back alleys and backroads of Saigon and Hanoi and countless other places whose names are familiar to all who remember or have studied the history of the French and the American wars in Vietnam. The stories are poignant, uplifting, funny and inspiring, full of memorable characters and powerful encounters, true testimony to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of travel to heal and enlighten.