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 →

A lot of people who go on vacation like to book trips through a travel agent in order to take some of the stress out of the planning process. Travel agents can help you save money on flight, hotel rooms, cruises; but what about online travel agencies? Today, with the growing of Internet, it is quite interesting to see travelers’ behavior have changed widely: instead of visiting their trusted local agent, they are now more inclined to book a tour right on the Internet. While some people still worry that Internet travel agencies could scam you or provide low-quality service, there are actually a numberRead More →

Finding the perfect place to shoot a major motion picture is an early issue any studio must face. Will they film in a studio? Will the jungle be computer-generated? The decision sets the aesthetic for a film and can often make or break a production.For Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of “Kong: Skull Island,” it was not a matter to be taken lightly. “I made the decision very early on that I wanted ‘Skull Island’ to be as real as possible,” he told Travel + Leisure. “I wanted it to feel like a tactile, tangible place.” Kong skull island in Vietnam Vogt-Roberts and his team made manyRead More →

Indochina is a name to describe the area between China and India, effectively the extreme South East of Asia which is known now as Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Indochina is an amazing place with a great diversity of history and culture as well as landscapes and cuisine which is now becoming a wonderful destination for travelers around the world. There are so many things to do and see when you are traveling in Indochina. Here are top 10 things you should think about if you are going to plan a holiday in Indochina area 1. Cruising Halong bay, Vietnam When in Vietnam, makeRead More →

Vietnam is a beautiful country of rice paddies, cyclos, water buffaloes and tasty food.  When people first travel to the country, they know very little about it all but in a couple of days in Vietnam, people will learn quickly. However, there are few things if you know about before packing your bag to travel to Vietnam will make your trip so smooth and trouble-free. Sunset in Hanoi A motorbike’s paradise There are millions of motorbike in Vietnam, some even says” If you don’t have a motorbike here, you are nobody”.  So the traffic in Vietnam is extremely dense and complicated.  Parking space for motorbikesRead More →