Travel Tips

There is no single best time to visit Vietnam. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn't looked at a map carefully enough. Vietnam is a long, narrow country — over 1,600 kilometres from north to south — straddling two distinct monsoon systems that operate on completely different schedules. The dry season in the south coincides almost exactly with the wet season in the north. What's clear skies in Saigon can be grey drizzle in Hanoi. This is the guide we wish existed when we f