Our last stop in Vietnam takes us by plane from Hue back to Ho Chi Minh City and then by bus to Can Tho in the middle of the Mekong Delta. Although the plane is a little late, the bus only takes 2.5 hours instead of the advertised 4 hours. There isn’t much going on in ...

In addition to the old imperial citadel, the imperial city of Hue also has several imperial tombs and memorials and one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia. We start with one of the several tombs of the old imperial dynasty “Lang Tu Duc” of the ruler of the same name, just outside the city ...

The 17-hour train journey is quite unspectacular. We sit undisturbed in a seat compartment until it gets dark and then move into the sleeping compartment for the night, which we share with two Vietnamese men and their son. The “beds” are designed more for smaller people, but are still okay, just a bit hard in ...

Sand dunes in Vietnam? Never heard of them? Neither had we, so we thought we had to see it. It also came in handy as a stopover between Ho Chi Minh and central Vietnam with the lantern city of Hoi An  and the imperial city of Hue – both of which we really wanted to ...

Somehow we’ve been so busy with other parts of the world since the Covid era that we’ve somewhat “neglected” Southeast Asia. We wanted to change that and set off for Southeast Asia again, or to be more precise, we set our sights on the island of Borneo. But as we have four weeks to spare, ...