Con Dao is a group of 16 islands located on the southern coast of Vietnam. It has a storied history with Marco Polo even stopping over the island but later on, it became a prison for political prisoners during the French Colonial era and was continued by the Saigon regime where they locked up and tortured the Viet Cong.

Mekong Delta: Vietnam’s Liquid Landscape The Mekong Delta spreads across 40,000 square kilometers in southern Vietnam, where the river splits into nine tributaries before reaching the sea. This is … Read more

HCM, Saigon, take your pick as these are all names that Ho Chi Minh City go by since the fall of Saigon in 1975. The city is Vietnam’s business and financial hub with a prominent history going back hundreds of years but the war is mostly how foreigners associate the city’s history.

Not much has been written about Ninh Thuan, maybe because it is Vietnam’s newest province, splitting away from Binh Thuan in the south and Khanh Hoa in the north in 1993 so with even locals not knowing that it is now its province, travelers will find a hidden gem of a location that offers so much more tranquility but an equal amount of beauty compared to neighboring Nha Trang. The best way to reach Ninh Thuan is ironically via the Nha Trang Airport which is closer to the capital city of Phan Rang than it is to Nha Trang.

The City of Ben Tre is actually where the Vietnam War started when the Viet Cong killed 12 southern Vietnamese soldiers in 1959 and where the preposterous strategy was proposed by a US army officer who said, “It became necessary to destroy Ben Tre to save it” and was bombed till flattened. But this meant the city had a clean slate and rebuilt what it is now today. The completion of the Rach Mieu Bridged in 2009 was when things kicked into high gear as development growing at a rapid pace with tourism following suit.

My Tho is the capital of the Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. Historically, it was formerly Cambodian and known as Misar but was annexed by the country towards the end of the 17th century. Later on, it was ceded to the French and was developed into agricultural lands after the French army engineers drained its marshes. It once had a direct rail route that connected to Ho Chi Minh City and apart from tourism, it is also known for coconut, fruit, and vegetable production, soap making, and coconut oil extraction.