Reasons to go North

Da Nang is on the way to Hoi An. Flying in, it is the closest airport. When teaching in HCMC I’d heard it was a good...

Sa Pa is a lovely mountain hill town which now fully embraces tourism. Climbing Fansipan is not for everyone and many people go just...

This hill was on my list ever since I read it was the highest mountain in Vietnam. I was even more pleased to find out it is the...

On Sunday I finished teaching in Ho Chi Minh. I am on the road travelling again. Planes, trains and automobiles!There are...

Driving home from District 3 along a concrete cast river bank, my eyes caught a brilliant flash of saffron yellow. With a little time on...

Kota Kinabalu, one time Jessleton, was only a place between. Somewhere to gather self and thoughts between trekking through jungles and...