vietnam | 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...

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...

‘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...