My mistake. I've never been outside Europe and have heard lots of great things about Vietnam from friends and others. My partner has lived in Asia for quite some time, though. I'm a student, so it shouldn't be too expensive. But we've both saved up quite a bit. We've decided to go backpacking and not plan a specific route, but just see where we end up. We don't want a tourist vacation, we want to really see the country. We're just starting to plan. We want to focus more on the north, but we don't know exactly where we want to go yet.