The North (Hanoi & Ha Long Bay)6 places
- The Hà Giang LoopA multi-day motorbike loop through the wildest, most spectacular mountains in Vietnam's far north, past limestone…
- Cao Bằng & Bản GiốcThe largest waterfall on any national border in Asia, falling in wide limestone tiers straight down the line between…
- HanoiA thousand-year-old capital where the Old Quarter's thirty-six guild streets still sort themselves by trade, the…
- Mai ChauA flat green floor of rice paddies enclosed by limestone hills three hours west of Hanoi, where White Thai villages…
- Ha Long BayThousands of forested limestone towers rising straight out of a jade-green sea, an emerald maze of islets and caves…
- Ninh BìnhThe same drowned limestone towers as Hạ Long Bay, except standing in rice fields and rivers instead of the sea — and…
The Centre & Highlands (Hoi An)2 places
- Hoi AnA beautifully preserved old trading port of ochre merchant houses and a Japanese covered bridge, strung at night with…
- Đà LạtA pine-forested hill station at 1,500 m where Vietnam stops being hot — about ten degrees cooler than everywhere else…
The North-Centre (Hue & the caves)1 place
- Phong Nha-Kẻ BàngA limestone massif on the Laos border holding the largest cave passage on Earth — one chamber has its own jungle, its…
The South (Saigon & the Mekong)1 place
- The Mekong DeltaWhere the Mekong finally splits into nine arms and empties into the sea, a green, watery world of rice paddies…