Until recently, Vietnam, the country at the other end of the Eurasian continent, was not of interest to Czech travelers and tourists. For many, his name was associated only with the wartime past and the so-called communist presence, which mixed with the image of thousands of Vietnamese who settled in the Czech Republic. As if these few distinct features could by themselves sum up Vietnam in an unappealing definition, leaving no room for anything enticing enough to be worth traveling for. Today, many people understand that going to Vietnam means understanding how far such ideas were from the truth - as far as Vietnam itself is from us.