Destinations

These corridors follow how trips are built. Province borders changed in 2025. The place names did not.

Central Coast

A thin coast between mountains and sea: Hue’s citadel, Hoi An’s old town, Da Nang’s beach and airport, and the caves at Phong Nha.

Dry from about February to August. Heavy rain and typhoons are most likely from September to November.

Cool hills and warm beaches that now sometimes share a province. Da Lat, Nha Trang, and Mui Ne are separate trips even when the map groups them.

Da Lat stays cool year-round. The beaches are calmer in the drier months, which differ by town.

River towns, orchards, and floating markets south of Ho Chi Minh City, plus the island of Phu Quoc off the southwest coast.

Hot, with a drier stretch from about December to April and short, heavy rains in the wet months.

Hanoi is the base. From there the usual trips are Ha Long Bay, Ninh Binh’s karst rivers, and the mountain towns of Sapa, Ha Giang, and Mai Chau.

A real winter, cool and often dry from November to April, then hot and wet from May to September.

Vietnam’s largest city, the usual end of a north-to-south trip, with day trips to Cu Chi and the Mekong.

Hot year-round. Drier from about December to April. Wet-season rain often arrives as a heavy afternoon shower.