Vietnam travel tips

8 guides in Vietnam — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

A train traveling down train tracks next to a crowd of people

HanoiVietnamOld Quarter chaos, lakeside calm, and extraordinary street food

city skyline during night time

Ho Chi Minh CityVietnamVietnam at full volume — motorbikes, markets and rooftop bars

high-angle photography of boats on water near hill during daytime

Hoi AnVietnamLantern-lit trading port frozen in the eighteenth century

people walking on bridge during daytime

Da NangVietnamA long beach, a mountain pass, and Vietnam’s easiest city to live in

Boats on the turquoise water of Ha Long Bay surrounded by limestone karst islands

Ha Long BayVietnamTwo thousand limestone towers standing in jade water, best seen from a bunk on a boat

people walking between food stalls under chinese lanterns

Phu QuocVietnamVietnam’s largest island, with jungle behind the beaches

Rice terraces carved into misty green mountains under a cloudy sky

SapaVietnamRice terraces cut into mountainsides by hand, and hill villages where the market is the week’s event

a river running through a lush green valley

Ninh BìnhVietnamLimestone towers over flooded rice fields, rowed through by women using their feet