A mountain town in the far north-west, surrounded by spectacular rice terraces and villages of Hmong and Dao people. Trek between villages such as Cát Cát, Lao Chải and Tả Van with local guides, staying in homestays.
The Fansipan cable car climbs to the top of Indochina's highest mountain, 3,143 m. The terraces are green in summer and golden in September. Sleeper trains and buses run from Hanoi.
One of the largest man-made lakes in Vietnam, created by a dam in the 1970s, with more than 1,300 forested islands.
A road trip of about 350 km through the karst mountains of Hà Giang, Vietnam's northernmost province, on the border with China.
A green, peaceful valley of rice terraces, bamboo forests and Thai and Muong villages of stilt houses, about 4 hours south-west of Hanoi.
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 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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