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Sapa: Trekking Vietnam’s Northern Highlands Sapa: Trekking Vietnam’s Northern Highlands Sapa is the kind of place that rewrites your definition of beautiful. Terraced rice fields cascade down impossibly steep mountainsides, mist clings to the Hoàng Liên Son range, and the hill tribe communities — the Hmong, Red Dao, Giáy, and […]

Sapa: Trekking Vietnam’s Northern Highlands

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Hoi An: Vietnam’s Ancient Lantern City Hoi An: Vietnam’s Ancient Lantern City Hoi An is unlike anywhere else in Vietnam. This Unesco World Heritage town feels frozen in time — a perfectly preserved 15th-to-19th-century trading port where yellow-walled merchant houses line the riverbank and thousands of silk lanterns illuminate the […]

Hoi An: Vietnam’s Ancient Lantern City

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Hue: Vietnam’s Imperial Soul Hue: Vietnam’s Imperial Soul Hue was the imperial capital of Vietnam’s last dynasty, the Nguyễn, and it wears its history like a second skin. The Perfume River divides the city into the ancient Citadel on the north bank and the modern commercial centre on the south. […]

Hue: Vietnam’s Imperial Soul

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Ho Chi Minh City: Saigon’s Electric Energy Ho Chi Minh City: Saigon’s Electric Energy Ho Chi Minh City — still called Saigon by everyone who lives here — is Vietnam at full throttle. It’s a city of 10 million motorbikes, sky-scraping skyscrapers, colonial landmarks, and the best street food scene […]

Ho Chi Minh City: Saigon’s Electric Energy

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Hanoi: The Heartbeat of Northern Vietnam Hanoi: The Heartbeat of Northern Vietnam Hanoi is where centuries of Vietnamese culture, French colonial architecture, and chaotic modern energy collide in the most beautiful way. With tree-lined boulevards, a thousand-year-old Old Quarter, some of the best street food in Asia, and a lake […]

Hanoi: The Heartbeat of Northern Vietnam

Ha Long Bay on a Budget: Kayaks, Karsts & Overnight Junks Ha Long Bay on a Budget: Kayaks, Karsts & Overnight Junks Ha Long Bay is one of those rare places that actually looks better than the postcards. Thousands of limestone karsts rise from jade-green waters like ancient dragons’ teeth, […]

Ha Long Bay on a Budget: Kayaks, Karsts & Overnight ...