Twenty reasons to visit Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City has exotic food, colonial architecture, and memories of war, writes Guy Wilkinson.
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Surprising way to see life along the Mekong River
A Mekong cruise through Vietnam and Cambodia's charming rural hamlets.
Airline review: Vietnam Airlines premium economy
It feels like flying business class of old, before the introduction of flat beds and the price is terrific value.
The best place to learn how to travel solo
A tour that offers plenty of independent time keeps travellers engaged and observant.
Blessings and banh mi along the Mekong
A Mekong River cruise through remote villages where few tourists travel.
Along the Mekong: A journey back in time
The wealth of water traffic is endlessly fascinating, particularly the goods barges laden to the gunwales. One more small bag of rice could spell doom.
One of Asia's most fascinating and intense cities
I shake the stump of a local man who has lost his forearm, and enter a courtyard packed with American armaments.
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Ethereal landscape meets bustling food markets; this former French colony is an exotic destination that taps all the senses. Tranquil beauty lingers from jade-coloured waters to soaring limestone islands in the north, majestical wonder surrounds old imperial palaces and bluey hill-tops around Hue, giving way to multi-storey department stores, mega-coffee houses and endless bustle of traffic in the big city life of Ho Chi Minh.
