Reasons to go North

I am frequently asked ‘what do you like most about Ho Chi Minh’. The answer: food and people. And in the absence of mountains my ‘social...

As the the inner districts of Ho Chi Minh sprawl to nearly 500km2 , and I live pretty close to the centre, it is hardly a hop and...

Facebook and Google have both taken it upon themselves to define my year, not quite as I would have done. So I thought I’d give my own...

Houses packed as close as Lego bricks with little room for a blade of grass let alone a garden in parts of Ho Chi Minh. But up on roof...

‘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....