We spent one month (December 2018) travelling from Hanoi in northern Vietnam to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. We used trains and buses to get around, supplemented by taxis, boats, bikes, scooters, ferries...Our
We loved staying in Vietnamese homestays. They are often the cheapest form of accommodation (5-10 EUR a night) and you can book them through service providers like Booking.com. We started to see a pattern, so
With an evening flight home booked from Ho Chi Minh City, we chose to just spend one evening and day here before we left Vietnam. For us we think this was the right choice but
When we were researching our trip to Vietnam, we already knew that craft beer was becoming very popular in this country. Ho Chi Minh City seems to be the source of the good Vietnam beer.
From Ha Tien, most people go to either Cambodia or Phu Quoc. When we applied for our visas for Vietnam, we had requested single entry visas, so if we went to Cambodia, we wouldn't be
After we arrived in Ha Tien we quickly found ourselves eating a Greek salad (real cheese finally!) and drinking cheap beers in Oasis bar, run by Brit Andy since 2009 . But we were also
Having arrived in Cat Tien and only then realised that heading to Ho Chi Minh City afterwards wasn't the only option, we booked ourselves on a bus to Can Tho (in the Mekong Delta) through
Cat Tien National Park turns out to be one of the best last-minute additions to our trip in Vietnam. There’s hiking, wildlife, and a laid back atmosphere.
Day 1 - a walk and the night tour We arrived in our accommodation, Eco Floor Bird Song Lodge, just around lunch time. Getting there is a bit trickier than most places we'd visited so
Having realised that Dalat and us weren’t going to get along, we spent Christmas morning planning an escape route in the direction of Cat Tien National Park. We knew it was halfway between Dalat and
We got the train from Dieu Tri and then a bus to Dalat with the Sinh Tourist. But Dalat itself didn’t win us over – maybe we’d set our expectations too high.
We were up at 5.45am again to be driven from Bai Xep back to the train station in Dieu Tri after our one night's stop in the 'shark shack'. Kim got hustled a bit by