Back in 2020, I had a planned to do this trip. But alas, COVID threw a wrench in everyone’s plans and it took 5 years to find the time to come back around to this. It was the perfect way to start my 1 year off work! Below is the full outline of my trip. You can find separate blogs outlining shorter itineraries or deep dives into specific cities.

To buy… or to rent motorcycles?

The ultimate question! There are companies in Vietnam that you can rent one-way motorbikes. There are also Facebook groups of travelers who buy and sell used motorbikes for not much money. Which should you choose? My general suggestion is if you are:

Low on time
Don’t know anything about bike maintenance
A stressful traveler (meaning if you get stranded on the side of the road, that would be a very bad day for you)
Are renting a motorbike for less than 5 weeks
Driving over the border of Vietnam (which you cannot do if you purchase a bike - the government could confiscate it because technically only Vietnamese citizens can own a bike)
Cost is a super issue, like $300USD is going to break the bank

Then rent!

We decided to rent motorcycles in HCMC from Style Motorbikes and drop them off in Hanoi. It costed about $10/day (total of 33 days, including insurance) and has service stations throughout Vietnam. It was easier than buying and selling questionable bikes, and we didn’t have a lot of buffer time for mechanic or break down issues in the middle of nowhere.

We rented Suzuki 110cc manual bikes with 4 gears. They are good on the mountain roads and go a maximum of 60km/hr (about 45 miles/ hr). Most roads have speed limits of 40-60km/hr for motorbikes, so they work great. We secured our backpacking bags on the back of the bike with bungee chords when moving from city to city. Make sure to pack light, and no hard suitcases.

Was it all planned?

Absolutely not. We had a rough itinerary, an exit flight, and wanted to optimize for a few date constraints (including the cave tour in Phong Nha, which we booked in advance, and climbing in Ha Long Bay, which can only be done 2x per month due to the moon and tide schedules). Because of this, a few places felt a little rushed. If only we had 3 months, it would have been a different story!

Of the 6 weeks in Vietnam, about 4.5 weeks were spent on the motorcycle. We decided to do a group tour to the Mekong delta without the bike because the area is covered in rivers and waterways, so it’s hard to navigate. Also, we didn’t want to drive in the big cities so we picked up and dropped off the bikes immediately when exiting / entering the 2 major Vietnamese cities, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and Hanoi.

I booked most of the accommodation through booking.com and got great deals! Both homestay and hotels can be booked through booking.com

The motorcycle trip stats

~1,700 miles driven
Most expensive hotel: $59/night (our 5⭐️ hotel in Nha Trang)
Cheapest hotel: $12 (Cat Tien National park homestay)
Favorite hotel: Tu Lan Lodge (see day 18)
Most memorable evening: Homestay near Cao Bang
Favorite food: Cao Lau (Hoi An) & Bun Cha (Hanoi)
Favorite road: Ho Chi Minh Highway (day 15)

Day 1-2: Ho Chi Minh City

Finally, after nearly 27 hours of flying (plus layovers), we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)! We were lucky to have a short-ish line through customs and waited 30 minutes before jumping in a Grab car, Vietnam’s main ride hail app, to head to the city.

After checking into our hotel in District 1, a lively tourist center with delicious food, we walked on the Song Sai Gon River and made a quick stop at the Ben Nghe Street Food Market.

In the evening, I met up with my old friend Nads from when I studied abroad in Australia in 2012! We haven’t seen each other in over 10 years and it was such a fun evening. We got dinner at Quan Bui and tried a local dish called “Banh Xeo”, a pancake / crepe food with savory foods in it; this one had mushrooms and coconut shreds. So delicious! We ended the evening with fancy cocktails.

Day 2 was filled with museums! We started our day with Pho Ga, chicken soup for breakfast - only $1.50 and a perfect portion!

We went to 2 museums today - the War Remenants Museum and Independence Palace. The War Remenants Museum shares the dark side of the US involvement in the IndoChina / Vietnamese war. Definitely worth the visit and lots of sad images of the results of Agent Orange.

Second, we visited Independence Palace, which was overrun by locals taking fancy pictures for TET, the Vietnamese new year which occurs at the end of January.

We had dinner at Secret Garden and bonus Tiramasu at Maison Marou. The best dessert after nearly 20,000 steps for the day!

Day 3-4: Mekong Delta

From Ho Chi Minh City, we embarked on a 2 day / 1 night tour to the Mekong Delta. We decided to do a tour because the Mekong can be very hard to navigate, and much of what we wanted to see was on water. It was the right decision. The tour we did had a variety of activities, including visits to:

Buddhist temple
Ben Tre (an island that just got electricity in 2006!)
Mekong sunset cruise
Can Tho floating market
Cooking class

Ben Tre was a particularly interesting island, becuase they produce a lot of coconut and make coconut candies. We got to tour a coconut factory and eat local fruits including dragon fruit, jack fruit, and lychees. Bonus for trying the rum-like drink with a snake in it; spoiler, it didn’t taste like snake or much of anything. We ended our day with a sunset cruise on the Mekong delta in preparation for an early morning visiting the floating market.

Floating markets used to be the main method of trade 20+ years ago, but with the improvement in infrastructures (roads / bridges), other trading modes have become more prevalent. The Mekong delta is widely used as a trade route as it connects Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and even flows all the way up to Tibet. Now, there are only ~3 regular floating markets in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

We visited the wholesale market, which sold products like fruits / vegetables in bulk. A seller would put the product at the top of a pole on the boat to indicate which product they were selling. There were also a variety of boats selling coffee, breakfast noodle soup, and bao, mainly for tourists. We had to leave at 5am to see the market in full swing - some people even but goods starting at 2am! We ended the tour with a cooking class making Banh Xeo, a Vietnamese pancake with vegetables / meat in the middle. I like to think of it like Vietnam’s version of a baleada!

Day 4 - Ho Chi Minh City to Cat Tien (90 miles)

In the morning, we picked up our motorcycles to start the journey north. The first 1-2 hours were filled with traffic leaving the city and it was a sink or swim situation. It was less stressful than expected with the crazy driving, and once we made our turn off to the national park, there were limited people. We stayed at a relaxing homestay in the jungle with delicious food and a pool.

Day 5-6: Cat Tien to Da Lat (165 miles)

This was one of our longest days as we detoured around the main road to do some fun, winding mountain passes and stop at another national park. A highlight was the fish noodle soup lunch Niêu Lớn, literally translated to “big pot” and Wes taking me on some crazy dirt roads to find a waterfall (no - we did not find it)

Da Lat is a super cool city in the mountains that is a popular honeymoon destination for local people because of its lower temperatures. It is also famous for its art. We visited:

3 outdoor art spots (one of which was some crazy fantasy place with dragons and hobbits)
A super funky bar called “maze bar” that I can only describe as a combination of Pan’s Labrinth, Lord of the Rings, and the grotto of Pirates of the Caribbean
The night market, where we had delicious skewers and pancakes

Da lat was one of my favorite cities in Vietnam! So unique and lively.

Day 7-9: Da Lat to Nha Trang (87 miles)

The ride was absolutely stunning and went through a mountain pass to the ocean.

We decided to spend 3 nights in Nha Trang mainly because it is a beach town, and we all know Adriane likes to be on the beach. We booked fancy 5 star hotel with an underground tunnel to the ocean.

Unfortunately I had a cold here and spent a lot of time resting, but we were still able to explore:

Scuba diving! The area is not known for scuba diving as the coral is covered in the fine silt sand, but we saw a big seahorse and nudibranchs which made the trip worth it
Mud bath at a spa resort
Rooftop bars and our (first) non-Vietnamese food since coming here

We also got a good first experience of TET, the Vietnamese new year celebrations. TET is like the combination of birthdays / new years / Christmas / every holiday you can think of, and most of the population is on vacation. Which means we had to stay in busy cities to make sure there were places to stay and food to eat.

Day 10: Nha Trang to Quy Nhon (150 miles)

The drive between Nha Trang and Hoi An is long and a slog with not a ton to see. This day we stopped at some nice view points and got to experience a very sketchy bridge crossing (which had a toll of $0.50 - totally worth it). We decided not to spend time in Quy Nhon as it is a similar but smaller beach vibe to Nha Trang, and we needed to move north to make it to the cave tour in Phong Nha.

Day 11-12: Quy Nhon to Hoi An (179 miles)

We finally made it to Hoi An! No significant stops on this drive, just gas and rest breaks.

Hoi An is famous for its tailors, and Wes got 2 custom suits for $410. We walked around for the afternoon assessing tailor shops and negotiating before he found the perfect purple color, and with my prime negotiating skills, price. From the measurement to the final suit, the turnaround was 48 hours. He went in for 2 additional fitting checks to ensure it was perfect! We were very impressed with the quality and efficiency (honestly quite astounding).

Other highlights of Hoi An:

Lanterns at night
Cao Lau (local noodle soup with bbq pork and only $1.50)
Chua Cau (bridge on the Vietnamese dong money bill)
My Son (ruins from the 8th to 13th centuries, unfortunately significantly damaged by bombs in the Vietnam War)
Wes’ suits

Day 13: Danang

From Hoi An, Danang is only 40 minutes north. We decided to hop over for a night for a change of scenery, since Hoi An is very touristy. I really liked Danang, although it was a little dead because of the TET holiday. we had a little snag on the way over where I thought my bike broke but it actually ran out of gas! I only had to push it 2 blocks to the gas station. The local Vietnamese people were so helpful and trying to get it back up and running! Main highlights from Danang were:

Marble Mountains - this was one of the coolest temples I’ve ever seen. Between Hoi An and Danang, there are 4-5 limestone pillars that have Buddhist shrines built into them. It was a steep staircase to the top, but the view and cave temple had both Wes and I in awe

Monkey Island & Chua Long Ung Pagoda

Danang Night market - the best place to get dinner, featuring Wes with some snails

Fire breathing dragon bridge - we got lucky as the dragon only breathes fire (and after sprays everyone with water) at 9pm Friday to Sunday. It was cool but genuinely emitted so much smoke, so not the most environmentally friendly activity

Day 14: Danang - Hue - Khe Sanh (157 miles)

This was a long driving day. We didn’t have time to stay the night in Hue because of our scheduled cave tour, so we took our time and made lots of stops!

Hai Van Pass

Hue Imperial City - the old palace during the Nguyen dynasty (that has an eerie familiarity to Ba Sing Sae from Avatar)

Hue Abandoned Water Park - what will tourists not see? Such a strange experience and only in Vietnam

Hue foods (Banh Beo & Nam) - both of these are local dishes made with tapioca and served either in a bowl or banana leaf. It was not my favorite

Unfortunately we got to Khe Sanh too late to see the war museum and not much was open so it was just a pit stop before the most beautiful section of highway!

Day 15: Khe Sanh to Phong Nha (146 miles)

This stretch is called the “Ho Chi Minh Highway” and was used as a route by the North during the Vietnam road. It winds through the mountains and is absolutely stunning. Also very slow moving, but that’s okay! The second half of the road was much more beat up - debris from trees / gravel stretches. There also is no gas station, but we came prepared with a 1.5L water bottle of fuel just in case. We did not run out of gas!

At the end of the drive, we stopped at Elephant Cave which was a short hike off the road. It was huge to us at the time, but nothing compared to the cave tour to come!

Phong Nha is self dubbed “the adventure capital of Asia” and has a variety of cave tours that stage here to enter the national park. We prepped for our 3 day journey after a long bike ride.

Day 16-18: Phong Nha Cave tour!

We did the Tu Lan cave tour with Oxallis. We chose this tour mainly due to the timing; Oxallis also runs the tour to the largest cave in the world but that trip is booked out at least a year in advance (and costs $3k!). Overall, we were extremely happy with our cave experience and had the best service and food.

The first day we hiked into the jungle and visited Rat Cave before heading to our campsite. It rained all day and we were soaked. It’s very hard to dry off in the humid jungle!

The second day we covered 3 different caves via raft, hiking, and swimming, including the Tu Lan cave. The craziest thing was (1) how enormous the caves were, and (2) how far back they went. They just kept going! The oldest cave we visited was 500 million years old, and they can estimate the age based on the stalagmite / tite formations.

The area undergoes yearly flooding due to the monsoon season, so some caves are constantly filled with water. We had rapids in a few caves and got to swim through them.

The last day we hiked straight up for an hour to a dry cave and finished through a cave that led us out of the jungle. We saw lots of animals in the caves, very astutely named “cave cricket”, “cave frog”, “cave bat”, “cave leech”, and my favorite - “cave spider” the size of my face

We got to stay at the most gorgeous hotel / homestay in Tu Lan. Definitely a highlight of the trip.

Day 19: Phong Nha to Cua Lo (155 miles)

There wasn’t much between Phong Nha and Ninh Binh, so we stayed in a super sleepy beach town just north of Vinh to split up the drive. This town reminded me of a popping beach town in the 1970s that had been hit by a tidal wave and destroyed half the town. Everything was totally shut down and there were 25 mph winds. It was very creepy. Even when we went to find dinner, nothing was open and we finally found a little restaurant that didn’t speak any English. We finally ordered whatever their special was and a full cooked chicken, with the head, came out on the platter. No other sides. Plus, on the drive it started to get very cold and we were not prepared for the weather, so we both had to buy puffy jackets at a random boutique to stay warm. Wes was a size XXL and I was a size L in Vietnamese clothing 😂

Day 20-21: Cua Lo to Ninh Binh (117 miles)

Ninh Binh (or specifically, Tam Coc) is an UNESCO world heratige site due to its incredible rock structures and temples. We stayed in Tam Coc at a homestay near the tourist center (mainly so we could actually have some food around, unlike in our previous city!)

Hot stone massage - we were so cold after biking in the rain all day that we got full body massages (aka totally beat up by small Vietnamese ladies) but it was great
Trang A boat tour - pro tip, go early or late. We arrived at the same time as 5 tour buses and my goodness, it was like Disneyland. You can choose a between 3 different routes to boat through a variety of caves and temples. We picked route 2, which had an even number of caves and temples since we had just done so many caves. Although very touristy, expensive ($10 but that’s expensive for Vietnam), it was a really cool experience!
Hang Mua - viewpoint and lily pad fields

Day 22-23: Ninh Binh to Ha Long (114 miles)

Ha Long Bay is world famous - with natural limestone pillars erected from the ocean, many travelers come for day trips from Hanoi, and even travel just to see this bay. We decided to spend 5 days total in this area because we wanted to deep water solo, and had to wait for the tides to be high. We started with an easy motorcycle ride from Ninh Binh where we checked into our hotel and were the only people staying there. Actually, we were the only people staying in literally the whole town. We walked around that evening to find dinner and the whole town seemed to be abandoned. One memory that will stick with me forever was walking by a day care building that was empty and blasting “baby shark” on repeat. I felt like I was in a horror movie. We had sushi and shochu for dinner.

We found a 5 star day cruise that was half off (only $45). It was absolutely amazing! There were only 9 people on the boat with a capacity of 80, so it was very luxury service and included:

Multi course lunch meal
Visit to Sung Sot Cave (Surprise Cave)
Kayaking & seeing monkeys
Ti Top Island Viewpoint
Jacuzzi and cocktails on the way back (which was a cold, but the pics looked good!)

The day cruise was so fun and absolutely worth it compared to an overnight cruise, which cost upwards $150-$200/night.

Day 24-26: Ha Long to Cat Ba Island

After Ha Long City, we rode our motorbikes to the ferry to head over to Cat Ba island. We stayed at 2 different places on Cat Ba island, first a homestay about 5km from the city center and then in the city center. One thing we learned is since we had motorbikes, we had mobility that other people did not. While that gave us access to cheaper and more remote spots, it also meant that we sometimes ended up to be the only people at our accommodation and didn’t make many friends! Cat Ba island was absolutely wonderful, and we:

Hiked in Cat Ba national park (extremely overgrown and very limited trails, but nice to see the natural jungles!)

Tried Bun Cha for the first time, and ate fresh oysters for $0.50 each!

Visited the Military Hospital Cave museum (old bunker from the 1940s with weird mannequins, oddly entertaining and worth the $2 admission fee)

Climbed / deep water solo (this was SO scary and harder than I thought it would be! The rock was really sharp, so you had to anticipate when you were going to fall to push away from the rock before scraping your knees. They were rated easy, and I climbed a v4 but it was probably actually a v2. My max height was around 40ft and a scary jump into the water!)

Kayaked after climbing

Chilled at the beach with this gorgeous boardwalk access

Overall, we could have spent 3 days total in Ha Long Bay Area, but because of the tides, we stayed 5. It was nice to relax a bit since our trip has been a lot of time on the motorbike.

Day 27-28: Journey to Cao Bằng

Upon leaving Cat Ba, we knew we wanted to head to the Ha Giang Loop. We also heard about the famous waterfall Ban Gioc, so we decided to head north. Today was very much off a the beaten path journey. As we were on the ferry from Cat Ba to the mainland, I found this temple that I wanted to go to. It had over 3,000 steps straight up, and obviously, we had to do it. So on we went, riding from Cat Ba to Yen Tu mountain for our first stop.

Yen Tu turned out to be quite the tourist trap with tons of Chinese tour buses and “pay to park your bike here, but also you have to pay someone to drive you from the bike lot to the entrance which is literally 0.1 miles away), and then pay for the entrance, and gondola to the top… we decided to hike. And over 3,000 vertical feet later, Wes wanted to rip my head off. Plus the views got worse and worse, so by the time we got to the top, we were entirely enveloped in a cloud. Bless Wes’ soul for letting me entertain this ridiculous journey.

Then, we headed off to the middle of nowhere (ended up in Huu Lung after dark and 91 miles of total riding). There was nothing around and we grabbed pho at some sketchy shop, where I swear we were fed questionable meat. Fast forward to day 30 for the most likely reason I got sick. Definitely not one of our best days.

If we thought the next day would get better, we were wrong. Starting in the middle of nowhere (Huu Lung), we rode 112 miles to Cao Bằng following Google Maps most direct path. Today, we learned that Google maps is not the most reliable tool for remote Vietnam navigation. After riding past some local weddings in small villages (and maybe even one funeral), the road quickly turned into a dirt road, and then a muddy disaster. The thing was, outside of our bikes not being appropriate for muddy conditions, we were far enough along that if we turned around we would add 2 hours of riding. So we battled through dirt / mud biking for 2 hours going 10mph. I slid out but was fine, just more muddy. When we finally arrived at our hotel, they looked at us like we were insane and swiftly hosed down our bikes and jackets. This segment was really difficult, and I said never again will I deal with dirt roads!

Day 29: Ban Gioc Waterfall and Cao Bang to home stay (35 miles+bus)

After the last 2 days, we decided to take the public bus to the waterfall. Ban Gioc Waterfall was nearly 2.5 hours away each direction on the border of Vietnam and China. On the way there, we accidentally got on a shared bus (different than the official public bus). It was $1 cheaper but we stopped for literally everyone and everything - there were chickens, delivery boxes, people (who then asked to stop for food breaks), it even turned around at one point because it left someone behind. We learned our lesson on the difference between the official bus and the random shared one!

The waterfall itself was gorgeous but small. We spent about 30 minutes walking around the waterfall and 1 hour hiking up to a Buddhist temple overlooking the waterfall, where I debatably got one of my favorite photos of the trip.

On our way back to Cao Bang, we decided that we wanted to make some headway towards the Ha Giang Loop and decided to ride for 1.5 hours in that direction. I found a homestay that we could stay at, and man, I had no idea what we signed up for. We turned off the highway and onto this insanely steep road large enough for one motorbike that dipped down into a valley. The road turned into dirt and mud and after the previous mud experience, I had ptsd but continued. We arrived to the homestay to a cute bungalow on the water, and had dinner with the family. It ended up being one of our favorite nights because of how local, authentic, and real it felt. It was also my introduction to “happy water”, locally distilled rice into a hard liquor that is anywhere between 20-40+% alcohol. Our host had it in a little tea pot and would just giggle every time he filled our mini tea cups. Needless to say, we were all very drunk by the end of the night and the English barrier wasn’t much of an issue.

Day 30-33: Ha Giang Loop

Homestay to Meo Vac (95 miles)

I woke up not feeling well, granted, after drinking who knows how many tea cups of happy water. We left on our way to the start of the Ha Giang Loop from the back side.

A note on the Ha Giang Loop - this has become one of the most popular things to do in Vietnam. It’s a very technical road that mainly motorbikes can access, and is windy with tough conditions (I.e. not maintained, foggy, massive cliff faces on the side). It was a part that we were most looking forward to but actually least enjoyed for a few reasons:

Police have set up traffic stops to check licenses. And fun fact - the US international divers license is not an acceptable license because it aligns to the UN International Road Traffic 1949 guidelines, and Vietnam does not accept that year. In my opinion, it’s to stop people from riding on the Ha Giang Loop since there have been injuries, but we were still able to rent motorbikes with the international drivers license. If you’re caught, they will fine you upwards $300+ USD
The Ha Giang Loop tours are so abundant and they drive really, really fast in groups of about 20 motorbikes. So while they are trying to make the loop more accessible to tourists, it makes the roads more unsafe
(Just a matter of circumstance), while we were there, we had the worst weather. Mist / rain / fog / horrible visibility all 4 days, so we would look out and just say “wow I’m sure that’s gorgeous, but I can’t see anything”
(Another matter of circumstance), Wes and I both got sick with supposed food poisoning

The road was pretty uneventful heading to Meo Vac, and thank goodness because this is when I started to feel ill. I thought it was the happy water but as the day went on, I started feeling more and more queasy. After looking back at my strava for the day, my heart rate was also really elevated. We arrived in Meo Vac just in time for me to go down for the count, and I was out for 3 days (the majority of our Ha Giang Loop).

The second day, we rode from Meo Vac to Dong Van (14 miles), which was grueling for me. I made it in one piece with just a few stops where I felt nauseous. We went past the Song Nho Que river in a huge valley and were grateful we could see it based on the weather!

Dong Van to Du Gia (61 miles)

Today, I slightly joined the world of the living, having my first food in nearly 2 days. We rode to Du Gia in the center of the Ha Giang loop for a relatively long day. We took the main road down to Yen Minh, stopping at a viewpoint of these famous switchbacks (as you can see, we barely saw them), and randomly saw a friend from our cave tour in Phong Nha at lunch! After lunch, we turned off on a more rustic, remote road until we reached our hotel. The hotel was called “Panorama Hotel” and is supposed to be gorgeous, but of course, we only had a slight view point.

The day I was on the mend was the day Wes got sick, so I spent the evening taking care of him as he took care of me. Luckily his stomach thing only lasted 24 hours, while mine was 3-4 days.

Du Gia to Ha Giang (67 miles)

On the last day of the Ha Giang loop, I hiked to the Thác Du Già waterfall in the morning, which was already swarming with tourists at 9am. We scooted off on the sketchiest roads of the loop and ton of tour traffic, which made the ride not the best. And lucky us, we somehow missed all the police checkpoints so we didn’t have to pay a fine for not having the right license! I think it was because we traveled on a different schedule than the traditional tour groups. After checking into our hotel, I grabbed a burger as a congratulations for completing (and surviving) the tough riding.

Originally, we planned to drop our bikes in Hanoi, but I convinced Wes that we should be done with the bikes. The motorcycle shop had an office in Ha Giang, and it was only $20 extra to be done with them. Plus it was an extra 2 days drive vs a 6 hour bus ride to get to Hanoi, and after our illnesses, we both were ready to be done.

In Ha Giang, we did a little sight seeing up to a viewpoint and I ran along the water, but it’s a pretty small town so not too much to see.

Day 34-37: Hanoi

From Ha Giang, we dropped our bikes off and jumped on a 6 hour sleeper bus to Hanoi. Fun fact about the sleeper buses - they are definitely not built for anyone taller than 5’9”! I was comfortable but Wes had his feet and head touching either end of the compartment. I felt like I was in the Knight Bus in Harry Potter getting thrashed all over the place.

In Hanoi, we did:

Train street: this is one of the most famous things to do in Hanoi! About 30 minutes before the train comes, everyone grabs a snack or drink at a local cafe and waits. The train really comes close to you - much closer than I expected! It moves slowly but it’s still 100% worth the experience. The train comes about 7 times a day, so be sure to check online for up to date information.

Ho Chi Minh’s Stilt House & burial site: While you cannot go inside, Ho Chi Minh is buried in Hanoi and you can see the outside of the building. Nearby, you can pay to enter a garden and see his old home on stilts with a museum of information on how he changed the country.

Imperial Citadel: This is a very detailed museum where you can walk on the old gates and learn about the history of Hanoi.

Street food tour / dinner with Hanoi Kids: this was recommended to us by someone we met, and it was really fun! It’s an evening with some college students where they take you around the city and show you their favorite spots. You only have to pay for their food, which is pretty cheap, and you get a free tour guide! We tried an interesting fish stew with noodles, skewers, and ice cream with jelly

I loved the culture of Vietnam. The food was absolutely amazing. At times, I enjoyed the motorcycle rides but they were quite long for me! My favorite moments of the trip were the cave tour, Ha Long Bay cruise, Marble Moutains in Danang, and seeing my friend Nads in HCMC.

The adventure of a lifetime!

5-6 weeks in Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi