Vietnam's Best Markets
To get a flavour of any Vietnamese town, head to the central market, the heart of the community. This is where the locals come each morning to ferret out the freshest vegetables, meats and spices for lunch. Or maybe their ...
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5 Best place for trekking in Vietnam
Vietnam offers excellent trekking and less strenuous walks. The scenery is often remarkable – think plunging highland valleys, tiers of rice paddies and soaring limestone mountains. Anything is possible, from half-day hikes to assaults on the lofty Fansipan, Vietnam’s highest mountain.
Sport and Outdoor Activities in Vietnam
Though Vietnam was slow to develop its huge potential as an outdoor adventure destination, things have really changed in the last few years. Apart from trekking in the mountainous north, visitors can now also go rock–climbing, canyoning, sea kayaking or kitesurfing, ...
35 amazing destinations must-to-see in Vietnam
A mystical, dreamy and elegant Ha Long Bay, an ancient & poetic Trang An Landscape Complex, the captivating & spectacular sceneries of Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park, the mysterious taciturn ancient temple towers of My Son Sanctuary, the citadel of Thang Long, the citadel of ...
Local Weekly Markets in Lao Cai
Sapa is famous for its weekly local markets and on almost every day in the week, there is a nice market to visit, somewhere in the area around Sapa the local hill tribes will be gathering for their weekly market most ...
Homestays in Vietnam
Staying in small local hotels is a great way to get a feel for the culture you’re visiting, but if you really want to understand more about the daily lives of the local people, then there really is no substitute ...
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Sa Pa - Lao Cai
The tourist capital of Vietnam’s mountainous north, SA PA is perched dramatically on the western edge of a high plateau, facing the hazy blue peak of Fan Si Pan, and is surrounded by villages of ethnic minorities, particularly the Red Dao...
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Bac Ha Town - Laocai
The small town of BAC HA, nestling in a high valley 40km northeast of Highway 7, makes a popular day-excursion from Sa Pa. There’s little to see in the town itself except on Sunday, when villagers of the Tay, Dao, Nung, ...
The Far North Vietnam
As Vietnam fans out above Hanoi towards the Chinese and Laos borders, it attains its maximum width of 600km, the majority of it a mountainous buffer zone wrapped around the Red River Delta. Much of the region is wild and ...
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Photographic Journey Through Northern Vietnam
As always, when it comes to Vietnam, we talk about the war, the economic booming, and the Communist Party. However, Vietnam has become one of the tourist hotspots in the past decade due to its friendly people, untouched natural sceneries, ...