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Vietnam is a beautiful country of rice paddies, cyclos, water buffaloes and tasty food. When people first travel to the country, they know very little about it all but in a couple of days in Vietnam, people will learn quickly. However, there are few things if you know about before packing your bag to travel to Vietnam will make your trip so smooth and trouble-free.

Sunset in Hanoi

Thailand has much to offer to the visitor, from cosmopolitan cities with great shopping opportunities to jungles, waterfalls and some the best beaches in Southeast Asia. It would take months to truly explore and understand Thailand, but if you don't have the luxury of so much time, the best-next choice is to visit the top sites in Thailand. According to experts like Lonely Planet, those top spots include everything from sandy beaches to historical sights.

Elephant in nature park, Kanchanaburi - Thailand

Hue was the last imperial capital of Vietnam, well-known for the magnificent architecture, pagodas and royal tombs laid in small villages and surrounding hills, also one of the most popular cities for all the Vietnam Tours. Besides that, Hue’s cuisine is another famous thing that attracts many tourists of this royal city. From the luxurious and sophisticated dishes of the noble class to the rustic and common street food, all are cooked with amazing skills of Hue people to create a special flavor that nowhere can compare. Hue food can simply please even the most fastidious customers. Below is our selected dishes of Hue cuisine that you must try when visiting Hue.

Water puppetry is a unique form of Vietnamese art, which has existed for more than 1000 years. We don’t know whether water puppets appear in other countries or whether they remain only in Vietnam, but we do know that they continue to spread and to gain intimacy with their audiences. In many travel guide to Vietnam, people said that “Not watching a performance of water puppetry means not traveling to Vietnam yet.” Most visitors to Vietnam should try to watch a show of water puppetry at least once. If you want to see water puppets in the true environment, you must watch them in the cradle where they began – in the open air of a village in Vietnam’s northern Red River Delta.

The fairy dance

A traveller’s guide to making decisions between Vietnam’s two main cities - Hanoi and Saigon aka Ho Chi Minh City.

If you're travelling to Vietnam, you may be trying to work out how to spend your time in the country's major cities - Hanoi, the capital in the north, and Saigon, the commercial centre in the south. We've run a comparison between the two cities to help you make your choices. We’re into historic, tasty, photogenic places, with lots of local character - so these are the things that form the basis for our recommendations.