Vietnam

Join Marilyn Jones for a unique Vietnamese market that she says is "organized chaos" and "a lyrical ensemble of commerce at its best."

Marilyn Jones visits Hoi An, where traders from many cultures have met over long centuries, creating a unique local experience.

Marilyn Jones takes a break from her tour group for a free-style exploration of Hanoi's old center.

Marilyn Jones explores some of the 2,000 islands and islets of Halong Bay, some of them with huge caverns beneath them.

Grand Escapades shares a visit to a few markets in Northern Vietnam, where locals still dress in colorful traditional costumes that make this a photographer's treat!

Ho Chi Minh City up close and personal: Marilyn Jones tours the city on a 3-wheel bike.

The Grey Traveller visits Hanoi, long on her bucket list, and falls so in love with it that it now heads a new bucket list of "where to go back to."

  One of the benefit’s of less planning and more wandering is finding places that seem to have been missed by the guidebooks.  The Heritage House is one of those, although I now see my Lonely Planet Vietnam guide is almost as ancient...

Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang cave system will be left undeveloped for tourism, at least until 2030, Plans for a cable car to the area and extensive facilities have been canceled.   The cave system, where so far over 300 caves and grottos have been...

Hanoi is full of street food stalls, so we decided to learn where and what to eat from the local professionals. We booked a guide from Hanoi Street Food Tours , and Tu got us started from the moment we met. He is the writer of the food blog Vietnamese...

Airbus is celebrating this week; it delivered its 9000th plane since being formed from British, French, German companies in 1968 to compete with the Big 3 U.S. makers. The new plane, an A321, went to a fairly new Asian airline, VietJetAir.  ...

The beautiful town of Hội An, is situated on the coast of the East Sea beside the resort city of Da Nang, mid way down the eastern coast of Vietnam. It is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We were fortunate...