Hotel Name: Cat Cat View Hotel Address: 46 Fansipan Road, Sapa, Vietnam I stayed at the Cat Cat View Hotel in Sapa, Vietnam. I booked online at the rate of 321,300 VND ($13.91 USD) per night. I booked it as it was an Agoda special deal, and I also liked the location. This was an […]
Hotel Review: Sapa Galaxy Hotel, Sapa – Vietnam
Hotel Name: Sapa Galaxy Hotel Address: 45 Le Van Tam, Sapa, Vietnam I stayed at the Sapa Galaxy Hotel in Sapa, Vietnam. I booked online at the rate of 323,100 VND ($14 USD) per night, and I booked it for its price and location in Sapa. This was my first trip to Sapa so I […]
Guesthouse Review: Hanoi Amazing Home, Hanoi – Vietnam
Hotel Name: Hanoi Amazing Home Address: 71 Hai Ba Trưng, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam I stayed at Hanoi Amazing Home in Hanoi, Vietnam. I booked online at the rate of 225,990 VND per night ($9.75 USD) and I booked it for its price and location in Hanoi. Initially, I was just looking for the […]
Hotel Review: Hung Vuong Hotel, Ha Long – Vietnam
Hotel Name: Hung Vuong Hotel Address: 25/4 Bach Dang, Hon Gai Port, Ha Long, Vietnam I stayed at the Hung Vuong Hotel in Ha Long, Vietnam. I booked online at the rate of 315,000 VND ($13.60 USD) per night, and I booked it for its price and location in Ha Long. There are two sides […]
Hanoi beyond Hoan Kiem – how the metro will open up the city outside the old quarter
Hanoi is a city of over 8 million people that is composed of 12 urban districts, 1 district-level town, and 17 rural districts. Most visitors – including myself – stay in the old quarter in Hoan Kiem district, and visit Ba Dinh District (the political and cultural heart of Vietnam). With the Hanoi Metro system […]
Hotel Review: Hoa Binh 2, Phan Thiet – Vietnam
Hotel Name: Hoa Binh 2 Address: 139 Le Loi, Phan Thiet, Vietnam I stayed at Hoa Binh 2 hotel in Phan Thiet, Vietnam. I booked online at the rate of $10.16 USD per night, and I picked it for its price and location in the city. Phan Thiet is better known for the beaches of […]
Notes on Ninh Binh – an abandoned backpacker street and the mega mansions that look like cathedrals
After visiting the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex (the main attraction of Ninh Binh) I visited Ninh Binh City. I had read some reviews saying its not worth visiting, which just made me want to visit it more. To be fair it’s not a place you would choose to visit if you had two weeks […]
Notes on Sam Son Beach – The hyper-local resort city in Northern Vietnam
Sam Son is a beach city in northern Vietnam, 16 km east of Thanh Hoa City (which is 150 km south of Hanoi). It’s not the sort of place that’s listed in Lonely Planet (I checked my 2018 edition), and that’s fair enough. With hundreds of kilometres of beaches to choose from in Vietnam, you […]
Scenic Ninh Binh – The Trang An Landscape Complex
The Trang An Landscape Complex is the name for what most people just refer to as Ninh Binh. That’s the official UNESCO World Heritage name, while in Vietnam it’s the more superfluous Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. Ninh Binh is also the name of the capital city of the province of the same name, though […]
Notes on Thanh Hoa – A provincial capital in the North Central Region of Vietnam
Thanh Hóa is the capital of Thanh Hoa Province, about 150 km directly south of Hanoi. Like Tuy Hoa on the South Central Coast of Vietnam, Thanh Hoa doesn’t get a lot of tourism traffic. I got a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Thanh Hoa as it’s the closest airport to Ninh Binh. […]
