ho chi minh city | Reasons to go North

Already more than twenty days into the New Year! From writing about two or three hikes a week I am shrunk to one ‘every so often’....

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...

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...

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...