Reasons to go North

‘Only just opening up’. It was this accolade which made Phong-Nha Ke Bang National Park my first trip out of Ho Chi Minh. Quang Binh...

My penultimate day in Phong Nha-Ke National Park felt more like the North West of England than Vietnam....

At last I have climbed a mountain in Vietnam. A real mountain not a metaphorical one. Phong Ke Bang National Park is still...

Out of HCMC and to Phong Ke Bang National Park. Dramatic landscape. Jagged mountains rise like ill kept molars from deep valleys and...

For the first time I ordered a taxi via my building doorman. To the airport. The doorman asked me where I was going, so stupidly I...

Posted by reasons on Dec 2, 2014 in Blog, Elsewhere | 0 comments

Ho Chi Minh City is in the middle of a major construction project to build a city railway, most of it underground. As streets are...