Planning a first trip to Vietnam means sorting out visas, cash vs. card, common scams, and how many days to budget per city — details that are easy to get wrong from abroad. These guides cover full destination overviews, sample itineraries, and safety tips, written for travelers coming from the US, Canada, or Australia. Coverage currently spans Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang.
Two days is enough to see Chau Doc’s essentials: Sam Mountain, the Ba Chua Xu Temple, the Cham village, and a boat ride through the floating houses. Three days adds breathing room for the Tra Su Cajuput Forest or a slower pace, which this river town rewards more than a rushed checklist does. 2 to…
Chau Doc is a Mekong Delta border town in Vietnam known for its floating houses, a sacred mountain shrine, a Cham Muslim community, and a genuine river crossing into Cambodia. It is quieter and less touristy than Can Tho, the delta’s better-known base, which makes it the pick for travelers who want a real working…
Vung Tau and Mui Ne are the two most common beach add-ons to a Ho Chi Minh City trip, but they solve different problems. Vung Tau is the fast, low-commitment option — landmarks and seafood in a day or two. Mui Ne is the longer, more resort-and-nature-focused escape, built around kitesurfing and sand dunes rather…
One day is enough to see Vung Tau’s main landmarks, but it does not leave time to relax on a beach or venture out to Ho Tram. If you have two or three days, you get both: the city’s colonial-era sights and a proper stretch of coast. Here is how to plan each version. 1…
Vung Tau is the beach escape most Ho Chi Minh City residents grew up visiting, and it works just as well for a traveler passing through Saigon with a day or two to spare. The city sits on a small peninsula roughly two hours south of HCMC by road, with a French-colonial core, a working…
Mui Ne and Nha Trang sit on the same stretch of Vietnam’s south-central coast but suit different trips: Nha Trang is a bigger, more built-up beach city with island-hopping and a livelier scene, while Mui Ne is smaller, wind-driven, and built around sand dunes and a slower pace. Here’s how to decide, or whether to…
Two full days covers Mui Ne’s essentials — dunes, Fairy Stream, and beach time — but three to four days lets you add a kitesurfing lesson, the fishing village, and the Po Shanu Cham towers without rushing. Here’s how to structure it either way, plus how to combine Mui Ne with a longer central-coast route….
Mui Ne is a beachfront strip on Vietnam’s south-central coast, about 200km east of Ho Chi Minh City, known for two things almost no other Vietnam beach town has: dependable year-round wind that made it the country’s kitesurfing capital, and a run of red-and-white sand dunes that look transplanted from the Sahara. It’s easier to…
Quy Nhon and Nha Trang sit on the same stretch of south-central Vietnam coast, about 6 hours apart by road or train, and get compared constantly because they solve the same problem — a central-coast beach stop — in very different ways. Nha Trang is built up and easy; Quy Nhon is quieter and less…
Three to four days is the sweet spot for Quy Nhon: enough time to cover the city beach, the Nhon Ly peninsula’s coves, and Ghenh Rang’s cliffside sights without rushing. This itinerary assumes you’re arriving by air into Phu Cat and renting a motorbike or booking a driver for the peninsula day — see our…
