Reasons to go North

Son Doong, the world’s largest cave, Phong Nha national park, Quan Binh province, in the central highlands of Vietnam. There’s a...

I have to leave Vietnam. More accurately I have to go home. I had one of the kind of message we all dread. so my travels have...

Little things paint a bigger picture. Colour only one number and the painting is incomplete. Fill in all those shapes to paint...

Today I am in Huế. Today it rained. Pretty much all day, till after 3.30 at least. Which is when I gave up being a tourist and retired...

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...