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Foreign tourists enjoy a bicycle taxi ride on a crowded street in the old tourist quarter of Hanoi on November 1, 2013. More than 5.4 million foreign tourists visited the communist nation in the first 9 months of 2013 , according to statistics published by the Vietnam National Tourism Administration. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo by HOANG DINH Nam / AFP) (Photo by HOANG DINH NAM/AFP via Getty Images)

Foreign tourists enjoy a bicycle taxi ride on a crowded street in the old tourist quarter of Hanoi on November 1, 2013. More than 5.4 million foreign tourists visited the communist nation in the first 9 months of 2013 , according to statistics published by the Vietnam National Tourism Administration. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam (Photo by HOANG DINH Nam / AFP) (Photo by HOANG DINH NAM/AFP via Getty Images)