A green, peaceful valley of rice terraces, bamboo forests and Thai and Muong villages of stilt houses, about 4 hours south-west of Hanoi. It's quieter and less developed than Sapa or Mai Châu, with gentle walks between villages, waterfalls, wooden water wheels and swimming in mountain streams.
Stay in a homestay or one of the eco-lodges in the valley. The rice terraces are most beautiful in late May to June and September to October, before the harvests.
A landscape of limestone peaks rising from rice fields and rivers, called 'Ha Long Bay on land', a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Founded in 1070 as a temple to Confucius, it later became Vietnam's first university.
The lake at the heart of Hanoi, where, legend says, a golden turtle took back a magic sword from Emperor Lê Lợi after he drove out the Chinese.
One of the largest man-made lakes in Vietnam, created by a dam in the 1970s, with more than 1,300 forested islands.
Nearly 2,000 limestone islands and pillars rise from the emerald water of the Gulf of Tonkin, making one of the most spectacular seascapes in the wor…
A mountain town in the far north-west, surrounded by spectacular rice terraces and villages of Hmong and Dao people.
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