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 ...

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.

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, ...

Ha Giang Province

HA GIANG is the capital of the north’s most remote and least-visited province, where Vietnam’s border juts into China and almost reaches the Tropic of Cancer. Until the early 1990s, this region was the scene of fierce fighting between Vietnam and ...