There are few places on Earth that get under your skin like Vietnam. A land of exquisite embroidery and silk shops, elegant smiling people wearing coolie hats, atmospheric night markets bustling with food stalls, and morning mists hanging over a turquoise sea; of heat and sweat, and flavours that will awaken and delight your taste buds. Boasting a proud history (with over 900 years of independence), a unique language and many ethnic groups, this beautiful country curving like a giant elongated ‘J’ on the edge of the South China Sea offers a fantastic holiday experience for the whole family.
Its capital, Hanoi is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world and the starting place for our new Discover Vietnam tailor-made holiday. View well preserved temples, streets and French colonial buildings in the Old Quarter by rickshaw before enjoying a traditional water puppet show.
Next leave the city in search of some of the country’s most stunning scenery. Heading south-west spend the night amongst a rural landscape of rice paddies, valleys and hills in a traditional stilted longhouse, and from there travel to one of Vietnam’s, if not the world’s, most stunning locations the limestone (karst) scenery of Ninh Binh Province in the Red River Delta. Focusing on the area’s main sites, visit Cuc Phuong National Park, and travel by rowing boat through spectacular scenery enjoying the region’s caves, grottoes, pagodas and temples.
One of the highlights of a trip to Vietnam is a chance to board a traditional junk boat in the spectacular World Heritage Site of Halong Bay and cruise amongst its dramatic jungle-topped limestone rock formations. It’s also possible to swim and kayak in the bay, as well as to explore caves filled with stunning stalagmites and stalactites.
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