Active Travel Asia

Just got back from Halong Bay this afternoon and it was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful--even more than I expected. We left at around 8am from the hostel and were picked up by Active travel Vietnam _ the tour company that we'd booked with.

Here is the fact about visiting the ruins: There are lots of them, covering an area of 400 square kilometers, though most visit only a handful of temples, which are thankfully very close to each other. The three most magnificent (and popular) temples

Dining on traditional Vietnamese cuisine is part of total immersion into the culture. Vietnamese food is quite unlike any other food in Southeast Asia. It’s even quite different from China.

The mountainous town offers a glimpse into a world of mysterious minority cultures and luscious landscapes. The Queen of the Mountains, Sapa , overlooks a beautiful valley with lofty mountains towering over the town on all sides.

We arrived at this UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin, we badly needed a break from the mad motor-scooter traffic of the nation's second-largest city, the swarming pineapple vendors and the ceaseless capitalist hustle. Th

If you thought the hideout in the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun” was spectacular, imagine a place where there are 3,000 such limestone islands clustered together in the East Sea of Halong Bay

The Queen of the Mountains, Sapa sits overlooking a beautiful valley, lofty mountains towering over the town on all sides. Welcome to the destination in northwest Victual way to another world of mysterious minority cultures and luscious landscapes

Once in the north of Vietnam, we had to decide whether going to Sapa or to Halong Bay because our one month tourist visa was running out soon.

Every night in September is a Full Moon Night on Indochina Sails as we celebrate the Full Moon Festival with decorated lanterns, traditional Chinese mooncakes and “September Double Happy Hour”

Determined to find her own private paradise Duc Hanh takes a cycling and kayaking tour to the far reaches of Halong bay