The Mekong Delta

The Mekong Delta was a place that Rich and I were both really looking forward to visiting. With nine tributaries from the Mekong River winding through nutrient rich land, the Mekong Delta produces tonnes of rice in paddy fields, fruits in orchards and lots and lots of sugar cane. With lives built around the waterways, the […]

A quick stop in Ho Chi Minh City

From Hoi An our Vietnamese adventure headed five hundred and eighty miles further south, via the sleeper train, to Ho Chi Minh City (still commonly called Saigon). The seventeen and a half hour train journey was very much the same as our last, except this time we boarded at half past eleven in the morning, […]

Happy days in Hoi An

From Hanoi, Rich and I were heading south through Vietnam. The small city of Hoi An, a UNESCO world heritage site, was our next destination and our chosen method of transport was the sleeper train! We stocked up on food and water for our sixteen hour train ride and boarded in Hanoi at around seven o’clock in […]

Halong Bay

After a four hour drive east from Hanoi, we boarded our Vietnamese junk boat. Rich and I were embarking on a three day, two night sailing trip around Halong Bay, an area with over one thousand six hundred limestone islands jutting out of the sea, declared a world natural heritage site by UNESCO in nineteen […]

Good Morning Vietnam!

After the stifling heat of Cambodia the prospect of heading to the cooler climate of northern Vietnam was a good one. With short flights from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City and then on to Hanoi we arrived late at night. The roads were deserted, it was pitch black, drizzling with rain and we […]