One of the largest man-made lakes in Vietnam, created by a dam in the 1970s, with more than 1,300 forested islands. It's a quiet, green place far from the tourist trail, where you can take a boat among the islands, visit caves and temples and stay with Dao and Tay families in their stilt houses.
It's about 4 hours north-west of Hanoi in Yên Bái province, and makes a good stop on the way to Sapa or the Mù Cang Chải rice terraces.
A road trip of about 350 km through the karst mountains of Hà Giang, Vietnam's northernmost province, on the border with China.
A mountain town in the far north-west, surrounded by spectacular rice terraces and villages of Hmong and Dao people.
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.
A green, peaceful valley of rice terraces, bamboo forests and Thai and Muong villages of stilt houses, about 4 hours south-west of Hanoi.
A landscape of limestone peaks rising from rice fields and rivers, called 'Ha Long Bay on land', a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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