Vietnam, open your borders to normal tourism. We have money to spend.

Nha Trang used to have a busy retirement community. When they couldn’t extend their visas any longer (May/June/July 2021), thousands were forced to leave. It devastated the town, bankrupted hundreds of businesses, and disrupted thousands of lives.

The covid damage in Asia is self-inflicted. Countries like Greece and Mexico haven't decimated their tourism sectors over the pandemic; they can walk and chew gum simultaneously. On a side note, Nha Trang looks like it has grown tremendously since I was there in '95.

How sad Nah Trang looks, when I lived there 20 years ago it was thriving with life. Probably the most beautiful city I,ve ever lived in while I was traveling around. I spent nearly two years there, covid has fkd everything.

Great video for the sad city of Nha Trang. Thanks for sharing

Great info ! Thanks for the vid ! 👍

may be the best time to buy properties in Nha Trang now?

As always thanks 🙏 Chris it’s good to see you out and about again. Agreed there is a long way to go buddy it’s a good first step and the beginning of end (hopefully) of these pointless restrictions.

Welcome to Nha Trang . Hope you stay strong and keep going!

Is it better now?

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Hope you channel will grow. Thanks for the effort traveling around and making videos for us

Thanks for the depth video, everything is closed that’s terrible!

Thank you for your honest review . I was going to book an international trip to nha trang in May. I don’t know when things will be fully open again. What other tourist places should I visit besides Saigon?

Watching as always, man. Hope you stay strong and keep going!

so cool.. From Ho Chi Minh city VN with love...👍👍

Whoa! That is really bad. I left Da Nang Sept. 6 2021 and things were bad there, too. Good luck. I wish I could come back but no way.

Very useful, thanks

CAme in to Nha Trang yesterday (from our resort a bit north) and even though most businesses still closed we had a good day. Bought some “half price” (LoL-right) clothing at Nha Trang Centre, got a few blocks off beach road and found a clean little place for a couples massage, and then had a great dinner at Sailing Club. Yep, Lots of rain but our villa and our resort is great for relaxing few days. Give it 3 months with no resurgence in cases and I think NT will be coming back strong. Life has to get better soon. Vaccines are the only hope to get back to anything normal.

I spent three months in Nha Trang a few years ago. Very sad to see it like this.

Thanks for update. I guess I’ll keep waiting for it to legit “reopen”

You don't have to try to keep a positive light, we know the pandemic opening and closing lockdowns have been tough for some areas and families. Thank you for keeping it real and informing us about the situation in Nha Trang. Really feel for them, I hope everyone (or most families) will be able to re-open and get back on their feet!!

Thank you for making this video. Sure appreciate your honesty, think I'll wait a few more months before visiting Vietnam again.

My experience here in Thailand is that overnight many of them open up again overnight.. but there is still huge economic repucussions but I was surprised how many reopened in a day once they thought tourists nay come back. There are noticeably more tourists here in Chiang Mai ..more than since covid first began bit. It's still far less than 10% of pre Covid..

Things will get better...

7:17 Liberty Center ....bang!!! looking sad... i stayed at that hotel for a week end of 2019 and was bustling...

Yup, Looks like it'll be some time before things get back to anywhere normal there....

I though that foreigners/tourists can only stay on Phu Quoc Island... How is the situation there? Because I have to stay one month in Vietnam and I need to book the hotels. I will arrived on December 6th

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hows DA NANG, i want to move there soon

This is sad for NT, I love the nice and clean beaches. I wonder if Vung Tau is doing better? When you have a chance, please visit VT. Thanks.

Thanks for keeping it real!

very instructive video

Bro, I was there in 1991. Great times. Very few places to stay and quiet. Why are you wearing a mask outdoors? That's insane! The wuflu will not get you outdoors. Beyond paranoid.

Nha Trang used to be a busy place, packed with tourists but it's now a ghost town.

It's rain very sad ,good day to you thanks you

Good talk and walk bro...👉👍👈

Got to have enough people to open up. There are a few places that are open. I 've been here for a few years now. It 'll be better in time. Just need to visit the non tourist places.

I was there in 2008 had a great time brilliant place.

It's going to take time to get back up to pre pandemic speed , issues with supply chains & businesses closed now trying to reopen with little funds to do so add that to tourists not showing up in numbers and you get the full picture.

Hey bro. I hope it can recover as I would like to visit

Appreciated the candor as I shared the Catch-22 dilemma using your boots-on-the-ground video as evidence on a couple of FB groups. Anyhow, here’s some breaking news that may help to slowly revive it: Bars, dance clubs, karaoke and massage parlors there are allowed to resume operations from Tuesday with social distancing restrictions.

What about schools? What about the beaches? What do all the residents do all day?

sad fact is its gonna be a good few yrs before alot of smaller cities get back to anywhere near what they were before... really hope it all comes back to life soon as Nha Trang is high up on my 'To Visit' list but think am gonna wait a yr or two... the whole world has changed because of this thing... we just have to get vacc'd, adapt and move on.. it will all come back in time!!

I truly like your honest opinion. rarely does youtubers say "if you don't like it, smash the dislike button" I like this most about you. That quote carries a lot of volume. subscribe to the 10th power

You are correct in everything you say.. but if the Vietnamese government will not issue a tourist visa without all the strings attached, tourists will not come, if tourists cannot come in, restaurants, hotels and bars will remain closed. It's very sad. How the government can continue to keep the border closed to tourists is shocking, they show absolutely no concern for there people who depend on the tourist for money, to live. I believe the government are planning to make it even harder to get in, and are considering a 1month visa only... We always stayed 3 months.. it would not be worth coming for anything less. People who have received all the vaccines should be allowed to come in... We have Vietnamese friends who have no income, with a young baby.. and receive no help at all. the whole system is a complete disgrace. I wish you well .. and keep providing us with your videos. thank you

Looks like most European towns and cities... on Sundays.

Are most things just shut down like this? Minus hcmc?? Wow all the charm is gone so sad 😞 hopefully it recovers.

Chris what is your job in Vn for a job for income?

Sad to see it but thanks for letting us know. BTW, Saigon has some excellent new dental clinics I heard. Instead of going to Bangkok, lots of people now go to Saigon for crowns, implants, dentures, etc. I wonder how Hoi An and Da Nang are doing?

It's gonna take many years for SEA and other tourist depending destinations to go back to somewhere normal. Until all restrictions are lifted for everyone, tourism is not going back to its full potential.

I left Nha Trang in July 2020. Was gutted, whilst i was there the tourism industry stopped. I watched the last bus of chinese tourists leave..It went dead. Did you find Ali Cafe, you were very close in your video (7mins in) Such a shame, Connect Bar was (is?) Awesome place. I miss 🇻🇳

If you do want to look at the bright side, you could say you can cross the road without lots of fear and nervousness now. And there's a lot of room to walk to get your exercise in.

Kindergartens are allowed to be open. Not primary or higher. Most of them are doing online classes.

I'm so sad. Vietnam 🇻🇳is my favorite country and I was so close to Na Trang when I was in Dalat. Now I'm curious how Vung Tau now

i always enjoy your videos and food reviews always miss wyn and her rokkie reviews!!lol

Wow, will all of these business going out of business I wonder ? So sad to see so many countries are devastated by this pandemic!

No way would I pay $1 to go there....only if family were there

I 'm living Nha Trang

so you didn't have to quarantine when you went to Nha Trang. But I'm assuming that international tourists would have to for 7 days on arrival even with both vaccines? Also, how are they stopping people from simply leaving Nha Trang and going elsewhere? Is it really locked down to keep people's movement restricted?

Sad for such an industrious hardworking peoples to lose their businesses by the thousands, the financial hardships are kinda hard to fathom.

Add Thailand to the lit. It's all broken..

My family lives there. Go travel inward and check out locals. Not these big ass tourist spots.

Isn't it also insanely rainy this time of year?

Cứ đến cứ vãn nhận, nhưng! Mỗi người lại một khác!. Với tôi Nhatrang rất chân thành với khách “thập phương “

You seem OK in spite of smoking.

What a change from1968!

this is what happens when you shut the door

Time House Auberge & Bistro still open will look after you.

If I was to go to Nha Trang I would stay near the Po Nogar Cham Temple complex, since that ismy interest.

Epidemic is f up everywhere in the world. Just hope the travel agency to tell their customers the truth

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You took one for the team. Thanks. Seen you before but will sub just for that sacrifice.

wow.......this is crazy. The world will continue to be in shut down.

"you will own nothing and you will be happy" -- klaus schwab / World Economic Forum / Great Reset / economic terrorism

Yep as bad as Bali

And all these numbskulls saying that Vietnam's economy is not affected by tourism or foreign money, nha Trang in the middle of wet season with everything closed doesn't look fun

Must be very lonely to be in Nha Trang by yourself 😳 You are better of in Saigon for sure !

Sad,

maybe they need the tourists there to spend money and keep it alive

wow. that is terrible on nha trang! with so much closed; how the heck to people owning businesses survive. where and how to all people get their food? your old camera has a pretty good picture i think. bad news there but; interesting to see what is happening. i am with you for going back to saigon with nha trang being such a dead town. go back, make more vidoes there, and enjoy it more.

so much fun partying alone 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Vietjet charges 1mill to change ticket, i would just stay and go drink n eat anywhere open that Izakaya looks cool, basically like a free45$ running tab if don’t change flight lol....

Thank you for this video, it is exactly what it has to be shown all over the world. VN is wiped out, and there is youtubers like guillaume rondan who says that VN is an eldorado. He has to come back back in the real life. Great video, to watch. Thank you again: Reality is the perfect vision of the truth...

the great reset by the elite

soon nam is open

Such a bummer - I really feel for the loss that so many Vietnamese have suffered. It was 50 years ago the Vietnamese were suffering through the war now they are suffering fighting the war against the invisible virus - Covid 19. The only solutions is get everyone vaccinated to get Vietnam back on it's feet.

Hehehe.....

Arn´t you people wurried to catch a disease over there ?

Fat and Broke, yep me too

OMG

so glad i live in America everything is well in Houston TX

Because of Covid?

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Lol, even a lot of shit in da nang went downhill. Nha Trang never had a chance.

Instead of being so negative maybe go to da nang where its positive and open........,so you can vlog about something else.

I'm def waiting till next summer at the earliest to come there. Planning on a 6 month trip, my first solo ever. Hopefully things are a little better by then

I hope they will make it recovery somehow! NT has nice beach to offer, can’t just let the city goes down hill. 😞

Great job chris I like the shirt you have on MICE.

I don't understand what they're doing. I've been working and traveling the most for work since the pandemic started. No slow down. No sickness.