{"id":1931,"date":"2015-02-23T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2015-02-23T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:23:07","slug":"tavan-vietnam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/2015\/02\/tavan-vietnam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TaVan, Vietnam- once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously wrote about TaVan, Vietnam, <a href=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/2009\/04\/tavan-vietnam\/\">here<\/a>. After the story I wrote in 2009, I received a letter commenting on that posting. I wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/2010\/11\/its-a-small-small-world\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The correspondence with Eddie about Tu, pictured below<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu.jpg\" alt=\"Tu\" width=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1932\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>led to a friendship, albeit over the internet, with Eddie, who has a homestay home, Lucky Daisy, in TaVan, near SaPa, Vietnam. He also has a delightful coffee house, Buffalo House, in the village of TaVan where he and his beautiful wife provide coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and the warmest, friendliest experience you can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped there with my group a couple of weeks ago and although Eddie was away, his sweet wife, Hien was a most gracious hostess who offered me a very special surprise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu-today.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu-today-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Tu today\" width=\"640\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu-today-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu-today-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tu-today.jpg 949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tu, all grown up, and her precious baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously wrote about TaVan, Vietnam, here. After the story I wrote in 2009, I received a letter commenting on that posting. I wrote about it here The correspondence with Eddie about Tu, pictured below led to a friendship, albeit over the internet, with Eddie, who has a homestay home, Lucky Daisy, in TaVan, near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6,7,5],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sights-in-vietnam","tag-tour","tag-travel","tag-vietnam","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TaVan, Vietnam- once again | Travel Kosher | Tours to India, Japan, The Silk Road, Vietnam\/Cambodia, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, etc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/travelkosher\/2015\/02\/tavan-vietnam-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TaVan, Vietnam- once again | Travel Kosher | Tours to India, Japan, The Silk Road, Vietnam\/Cambodia, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, etc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I previously wrote about TaVan, Vietnam, here. 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