Where to go in Vietnam: neighborhood breakdowns, Vietnam Railways transit links, and daily budgets in VND (₫).
Vietnam's thousand-year capital wraps willow-fringed Hoan Kiem Lake in a sensory labyrinth of 36 ancient craft-guild streets, French Colonial villas, sizzling curbside Bún Chả grills, and whipped Egg Coffee—with the limestone river caves of Ninh Binh just 2 hours south by train.
Over 1,960 towering emerald limestone karsts rise out of the Gulf of Tonkin across UNESCO-listed Ha Long Bay and neighboring Cat Ba Archipelago—best experienced on a 2-day/1-night or 3-day/2-night boutique wooden junk or balcony cruise.
A remarkably preserved 16th-century Asian trading port on the Thu Bon River where mustard-yellow shophouses, wooden Chinese assembly halls, and the 1593 Japanese Covered Bridge glow beneath thousands of silk lanterns every night—just 4 km by bicycle from An Bang Beach.
Linked by the breathtaking cliffside railway across the Hai Van Pass ('Ocean Cloud Pass'), booming coastal Da Nang (with 30 km of white sand at My Khe Beach and the Marble Mountains) and imperial Hue (capital of the Nguyen Emperors from 1802 to 1945) anchor Central Vietnam.
Vietnam's high-energy southern powerhouse blends 1880s French Colonial landmarks, hidden apartment-block specialty coffee roasters, rooftop skybars above the Saigon River, and the newly opened Metro Line 1 with poignant 20th-century history and smoky night-market woks.
Floating in the warm Gulf of Thailand with its own special 30-day visa-free entry policy for international flights, Phu Quoc pairs powder-white palm beaches at Bai Sao and Bai Kem with UNESCO biosphere rainforests, pepper farms, and the world's longest over-sea cable car.
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