What a pleasure Ho Chi Minh city is. From the gorgeous French architecture, wide beautifully manicured boulevards to the frantic, bustling markets. We have loved it all. Amazing restaurants and rooftop bars as well. Kids loving it. Wishing we had an extra day to explore. Great half day trip to Cu Chi tunnels with Kim Travel, was enough to get an overview of the history and all that happened in the area. Then back to an amazing Bahn mi lunch before hitting the sho...

What a pleasure Ho Chi Minh city is. From the gorgeous French architecture, wide beautifully manicured boulevards to the frantic, bustling markets. We have loved it all. Amazing restaurants and rooftop bars as well. Kids loving it. Wishing we had an extra day to explore. Great half day trip to Cu Chi tunnels with Kim Travel, was enough to get an overview of the history and all that happened in the area. Then back to an amazing Bahn mi lunch before hitting the sho...

Having flown from Danang on Saturday morning we arrived into HCMC about 1pm and checked into our spotlessly clean but pretty basic hotel in the backpacker area of the city. Lovely looking pool and eating area. Kids in one hotel and adults in the other. Walked via Bahn mi for lunch through the park to the War Remnants Museum, some pretty horrific photos and stories to read dating back not so very long ago. Our walk back to the hotel took us past the gorgeous looki...

Hoi An has been as gorgeous as ever. The ancient town has grown hugely but it's fantastic to see it is all in keeping and you'd hardly know what was old and what wasn't. Great that they charge tourists 120,000 dong (about 8) for a ticket valid for your entire stay and the money goes to retaining the ancient town. We've been stoked with Thanh Binh Riverside as a place to stay. Plenty of room for the kids, a gorgeous pool and we can walk to the ancient town wheneve...

An 8am departure from Handspan offices in Hanoi followed b a 4 hour drive to Halong Bay. The only stop being an enormous shop with clean toilets expensive Vietnamese gifts and little ladies to follow you around with a basket in the hopes you'll part with some cash. Relatively chaotic scenes along the way, women working the rice fields, unfinished roads, half assed road repairs huge factories, and all manner of things being transported by motorbike. Plenty of boa...