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TOP 40 SITES OF INDOCHINA

Hue

The capital of the Nguyen emperors, Hué is packed with temples, tombs, palaces and pagodas – or at least the remains of those that successive armies didn’t manage to completely destroy. Foodies won’t want to miss the fus...

Ba Be Lakes

The park is surrounded by steep mountains, up to 1554m in height. The 1939 Madrolle Guide to Indochina suggests travelling around Ba Be Lakes ‘in a car, on horseback, or, for ladies, in a chair’, meaning, of course, a se...

Da Lat

Dalat is quite different from anywhere else you’ll visit in Vietnam. You would almost be forgiven for thinking you’d stumbled into the French Alps in springtime. This was certainly how the former colonists treated it – e...

Ban Gioc Waterfalls

Ban Gioc Waterfalls

One of Vietnam’s best-known waterfalls, its image adorns the lobby of many a cheap guesthouse throughout Vietnam. It’s a very scenic spot, marking the border with China, but sees very few visitors. The name Ban Gioc is d...

Cu Chi Tunnels

The town of Cu Chi is a district of greater HCMC and has a population of about 200, 000 (it had about 80, 000 residents during the American War). At first glance there is little evidence here to indicate the intense figh...

Dien Bien Phu

Dien Bien Phu is famous as the site of a battle that was truly decisive. The French colonial forces were roundly defeated at the hands of the Viet Minh on 7 May 1954 and the days of their Indochina empire were finally nu...

DMZ

The legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail – the main artery of supplies for the North’s war effort – was not one path but many, leading through the jungles of the country’s mountainous western spine. In an effort to cut the line n...

Dong Van Plateau

Dong Van Plateau

With the average altitude of 1400-1600m over sea level, the total area of 2,530 square kilometers, the rocky Plateau gathers the wonderful and varied natural sceneries which have abundant scientific values and contain th...

Ha Long Bay

Halong Bay is the stuff of myths and naturally the Vietnamese have concocted one. Halong translates as ‘where the dragon descends into the sea’. Legend has it that the islands of Halong Bay were created by a great dragon...

Hanoi

Set within the jungle 55km from Hoi An are the enigmatic ruins of My Son, the most important remains of the ancient kingdom of Champa and a Unesco World Heritage site. Although Vietnam has better preserved Cham sites, no...

Ho Chi Minh

Fasten your seatbelts as Ho Chi Minh City is a metropolis on the move – and we’re not just talking about the motorbikes that throng the streets. Saigon, as it’s known to all but city officials, is Vietnam at its most diz...

Hoi An

A highlight of any trip to Vietnam, Hoi An is a town oozing charm and history, having largely escaped the destruction of successive wars. Once a sleepy riverside village, it’s now quite definitely a tourist town – with h...

Mai Chau

Mai Chau is the heart of a beautiful valley that is a world away from the hustle and bustle of Hanoi. The modern village is an unappealing sprawl, but as you emerge on the rice fields and rural living it is transformed i...

Mekong Delta

Vietnam’s ‘rice basket’, the Mekong Delta is a watery landscape of green fields and sleepy villages, everywhere crisscrossed by the brown canals and rivulets fed by the mighty Mekong River. Its inhabitants – stereotyped ...

My Son

Set within the jungle 55km from Hoi An are the enigmatic ruins of My Son, the most important remains of the ancient kingdom of Champa and a Unesco World Heritage site. Although Vietnam has better preserved Cham sites, no...

Nha Trang

Nha Trang has a split personality. One takes the form of a smaller Danang – a bustling Viet¬namese city humming with commerce but blessed with access to a beautiful beach. The other is a Western resort town encompassing ...

Tam Coc

Poetically penned ‘Halong Bay on the rice paddies’, the area around Tam Coc boasts stunning scenery. While Halong Bay has rugged rock formations jutting out of the sea, here they soar skywards from a sea of green. Tam Co...

Phong Nha Cave

The complex karst formations stretching throughout the surrounding Ke Bang National Park were formed approximately 400 million years ago, making them the oldest in Asia. Part of this system, Phong Nha is the largest and ...

Sapa

The Queen of the Mountains, Sapa sits regally overlooking a beautiful valley, lofty mountains towering over the town on all sides. Welcome to the destination in northwest Vietnam, gateway to another world of mysterious m...

Phu Quoc Island

Phu Quoc Island

One of Vietnam’s star attractions, mountainous and forested Phu Quoc is a splendid tropical getaway set with beautiful white-sand beaches and quaint fishing villages. Adventure comes in many forms here – from motorbiking...

Bolaven Plateau

Bolaven Plateau

High above the hot Mekong River Valley stands the natural citadel of the Bolaven Plateau – hilly, roughly circular in shape, and with an average altitude of 600m – dominating eastern Champasak province and overlooking th...

Khuang Si Waterfalls

Khuang Si Waterfalls

The best day-trip from Louang Phabang is the picturesque, multi-level Kouang Si waterfall, tumbling 60m before spilling through a series of crystal-blue pools. Vendors near the lower pool sell tam màk hung, fruit and dri...

Luang Prabang

Nestling in a slim valley shaped by lofty, green mountains and cut by the swift Mekong and Khan rivers, Luang Prabang exudes tranquillity and grandeur. A tiny mountain kingdom for more than a thousand years and designate...

Muang Ngoi

All the accommodation and most of the restaurants are built on the river banks, where people tend to just while away their days sleeping, eating, reading and relaxing. However, there are options for the more energetic: k...

Pak Ou Caves

Numerous caves punctuate the limestone cliffs around Pak Ou – the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou rivers. The best-known are the "Buddha Caves", Tham Ting and Tham Phoum. They have been used for centuries as a reposi...

Plain of jars

The fifteen-kilometre-wide stretch of grassy meadows and low rolling hills around Phonsavan takes its name from the clusters of chest-high urns found here. Scattered across the Plain of Jars and on the hills beyond, the ...

Si Phan Don

Known as Si Phan Don, or "Four Thousand Islands", this labyrinth of islets, rocks and sandbars has acted as a kind of bell jar, preserving traditional southern lowland Lao culture from outside influences. The largest of ...

Vang Vieng

The area’s main attraction has always been the dramatic landscape surrounding Vang Vieng. Honeycombed with unexplored tunnels and caverns, the limestone cliffs are a spelunker’s heaven. Several caves are named and play m...

Vientiane

However, in the mere decade and a half since Laos reopened its doors to foreign visitors, Vientiane has changed with dizzying rapidity. Happily, most of the changes have been for the better: there's an excellent selectio...

Wat Phou

The most evocative Khmer ruin outside Cambodian borders, the World Heritage site of Wat Phou should be at the top of your southern Laos must-see list. A romantic and rambling complex of pre-Angkorian temples dating from ...

Angkor Wat

The world-renowned temples of Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, stand as an impressive monument to the greatest ancient civilization in Southeast Asia. Spiritually, politically and geographically, Angkor was at the heart of...

Kirirom National Park

Kirirom National Park

The rolling hills of the Kirirom National Park are zigzagged with well-trodden trails and dotted with waterfalls, lakes and abundant wild plants. An important wildlife sanctuary, the park's slopes are home, despite illeg...

Phnom Penh

Once the ‘Pearl of Asia’, Phnom Penh, sprawls west from the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. Phnom Penh can be an assault on the senses. Motorbikes whiz through the backstreets without a thought for pedestr...

Tonle Sap Lake

Tonle Sap is the massive freshwater lake that dominates the map of Cambodia. The lake is at once a reservoir, flood-relief system, communications route, home and larder to the people who live on and around it; even Cambo...

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