Joseph We’ve uploaded a new album with photos from Southern Vietnam, including Phu Quoc.  It’s on the left hand side of the page. The tear shaped island off the south end of Vietnam is home to about 50,000 people, mostly fishermen and their families.  Of more interest to us though were the beautiful beaches that…

Penny After only a few days in big cities, Joe and I were once again craving the slower pace of towns and villages.  We decided that the Mekong Delta would be a perfect place to get away.  We would make our way across the delta until we reached Rach Gia where we would take a…

Joseph Ho Chi Minh city was better known as Saigon before the communists won the “American War” and renamed it after their hero.  It was where we landed after a 2 hour flight south from Hanoi.  The city is larger and more commercial than Hanoi, similar to the difference between Beijing and Shanghai.  Its attractions…

Penny Halong Bay is one of the top tourist draws of Northern Vietnam.  It is a beautiful bay filled with karst formation islands (pointy hills).  Having just visited the karst mountains in Southern China we were going to give it a miss but we are happy we didn’t.  We took a little break from independent…

Penny After an exhausting 13 hour overnight train journey from Nanning, we finally arrived in Hanoi yesterday morning.  We had expected to get some sleep on the overnight train but due to the border crossing, there would be no sleep for us! Exhausted, we made our way to a small alley/street in the Old Quarter…