Author: happywriter

Step off the ferry in Ben Tre and the air changes. There’s something heavier and greener about it — the smell of river mud and warm coconut husk, of overripe fruit and wood smoke curling from a kitchen somewhere in the palm grove. Ben Tre travel guide territory is Mekong Delta country at its most…

There are landscapes in Vietnam that make you stop walking and simply stand still. The Mu Cang Chai rice terraces are one of them. Carved into the flanks of the Hoang Lien Son mountain range in Yen Bai Province, these cascading fields — thousands of hand-built steps rising from valley floor to sky — represent…

Three hours south of Hanoi, the chaos of the city dissolves into something you didn’t know you needed. This Mai Chau travel guide takes you into a valley so green it almost hurts to look at — a place where white egrets skim paddy fields at dusk, weavers work at wooden looms on bamboo verandas,…