Hue was the last imperial capital of Vietnam, well-known for the magnificent architecture, pagodas and royal tombs laid in small villages and surrounding hills, also one of the most popular cities for all the Vietnam Tours. Besides that, Hue’s cuisine is another famous thing that attracts many tourists of this royal city. From the luxurious and sophisticated dishes of the noble class to the rustic and common street food, all are cooked with amazing skills of Hue people to create a special flavor that nowhere can compare. Hue food can simply please even the most fastidious customers. Below is our selected dishes of Hue cuisineRead More →

Water puppetry is a unique form of Vietnamese art, which has existed for more than 1000 years. We don’t know whether water puppets appear in other countries or whether they remain only in Vietnam, but we do know that they continue to spread and to gain intimacy with their audiences. In many travel guide to Vietnam, people said that “Not watching a performance of water puppetry means not traveling to Vietnam yet.” Most visitors to Vietnam should try to watch a show of water puppetry at least once. If you want to see water puppets in the true environment, you must watch them in theRead More →

A traveller’s guide to making decisions between Vietnam’s two main cities – Hanoi and Saigon aka Ho Chi Minh City. If you’re travelling to Vietnam, you may be trying to work out how to spend your time in the country’s major cities – Hanoi, the capital in the north, and Saigon, the commercial centre in the south. We’ve run a comparison between the two cities to help you make your choices. We’re into historic, tasty, photogenic places, with lots of local character – so these are the things that form the basis for our recommendations.   The verdict first Just in case you don’t haveRead More →