Nha Trang in March: Calmer Seas, Warmer Water and Low-Season Prices March is the month you can get in the water in Nha Trang. The swell that ran through autumn and winter settles, and the sea warms up enough to stay in. Rain is rare and the beaches are quiet. Here is what to do, … Read more
Where to Stay on Con Dao: The Four Resorts and the Town Hotels Con Dao is a small island with a small number of rooms. There are four places you could fairly call a resort, and they sit in four different parts of the island. Nearly everything else is in town. Where you stay changes … Read more
Con Dao Travel Guide: Getting There, the Prison Museums, Beaches and Where to Stay Con Dao sits well out to sea south of Ho Chi Minh City. The flight takes 45 minutes; the ferry leaves from a port down in the Mekong. A former prison complex still stands in the middle of town, and the … Read more
Cat Ba Island Travel Guide: Getting There from Hanoi, Ferries, Weather and Where to Stay Cat Ba sits right beside Ha Long Bay, and you have to cross water to reach it. From Hanoi it takes about half a day. You get the same limestone seascape with far fewer boats on it. Here is how … Read more
Nha Trang to Da Lat: buses, limousine vans, fares and how long it takes It is 135km from central Nha Trang to central Da Lat. That looks short on a map, but the road climbs a long mountain pass, so operators allow 3.5 to 4 hours. There is no flight and no train between the … Read more
Nha Trang in February: the Driest Month, Calmer Seas, and What Tet Does to Prices February is the driest month of the year in Nha Trang, with less cloud than any other month. But the month does not behave as one piece. Tet, the lunar new year, lands somewhere inside it most years, and prices, … Read more
