With 2 Kids In Tow, It's Backpacking We Go

Having both never been to Vietnam, we were extremely surprised by the country’s diversity in landscape and topography--no two places were ev...

The logistics of traveling with a family are very different to when you are travelling on your own or with other able-bodied adults.  Young ...

It was hard to imagine at first whether it could live up to the hype.  We included it in our itinerary as it was simply ‘THE’ must-do while ...

Our second last stop in Vietnam was the northern city of Hanoi.  We stayed in the "old quarter" where it was much more historic a...

We read about Tam Coc in our Lonely Planet guide—it described it as “Halong Bay on the rice paddies...(it) gives Halong Bay a run for its mo...

The 5 th stop on our journey northward was Hue.  An easy 4.5hr bus ride from Hoi An, it’s located inland on the banks of the Perfume River ...

Rolling into Hoi An just after dawn, the small city of approximately 122,000 people was already awake with activity.  Noticeably the traffi...

Our friends from Melbourne, Phil and Ron, said that when we are in Nha Trang, we must take one of the ‘Four Island Tours’, so on one of our ...

City of Dalat In the short time that we've been in Vietnam, we are really encountering a variety of landscapes and topographies.  ...

Our first stop on our 'Open Tour' ticket was Mui Ne, about 200km and a 5hr journey northeast of HCMC on the South China Sea.  The Lo...

It's just dawned on us that Vietnam is a very very big country and we have a lot of ground to cover in just 30 days.  On one of our lazy...

We had a very rude 'welcome' to Vietnam.  The day started off well, but soon turned into a 14hr saga, which was much more than we ha...

Its a mixed result on the topic of visa requirements for the countries that we are planning to visit.  On the upside, about half of them wil...