5. The VND: Understanding the Vietnamese Currency

Amounts can quickly seem impressive:

100,000 VND
500,000 VND
1,000,000 VND
10,000,000 VND
100,000,000 VND

You will quickly get used to thinking in millions.

For example, a salary of 30 million VND will generally be displayed:

30,000,000 VND

One of the classic mistakes when arriving in Vietnam is to continue mentally converting all expenses into euros.

It's useful at first, but once settled, it becomes easier to build your budget directly in VND.