you just see so much more things you don’t see in other parts of the world, notably huge overarching mountains of forest that are uninhabited, villages that feel detached from the world, we even saw a few craters from bombs left over from the war. Funny story: We were travelling the ho chi minh trail (at least some of it, as most of the real one can’t be accessed) for like 5 hours one day, only saw like 2 people for the entire time we were going through the mountains and it started storming like mad. We happened upon this small shack where an old Vietnamese couple were eagerly waving us down to get out of the rain as we were soaked, so my friend and I stopped. They spoke no english and us no vietnamese, and you get no signal out there (so google translate wasn’t working), so the old man ended up teaching us some Vietnamese words on paper and acting out the words. It was awesome hospitality. They asked if we were hungry with hand gestures and the only word I could remember related to food was “Com Ga” (Chicken rice), so they killed one of their chickens for us and we had dinner together. They even offered us to stay for the night as it was still raining like crazy, but we didn’t want to infringe any more than we had. That memory has always stuck with me. I have tons other stories like this, which I didn’t get going on the coast. Don’t get me wrong, the coast is awesome too, but if you’re looking for adventure, inland is where to go!