As well as to see the Mekong Delta, our trip to Can Tho had been motivated by a desire to stay at Azerai Can Tho, Adrian Zecha's latest venture in Vietnam.
Vietnam has a growing number of exceptional beach resorts, with refined aesthetics, polished service and delicious food. Here are our top five.
One of the joys of travel is savoring the cuisine of another country. On this trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, our writer enjoyed two excellent food tours.
Legendary hotelier, Adrian Zecha, the founder of Aman Resorts, has a new venture in Vietnam's Mekong Delta at a lower price point. See video of what it's like.
Anantara Quy Nhon Villas, a new 26-villa resort, opens on an untouched stretch of the Vietnamese coast, 70 minutes by plane northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.
Situated on a 52-acre island in the Hau River, Azerai Can Tho is accessible only by boat and offers 60 one-bedroom villas at a somewhat lower price point.
Andrew Harper digital editor Kristen Remeza just returned from a 15-day, five-country trip to Southeast Asia. Here she talks about her experience in Hanoi.
Hideaway Report editors answer all your travel-related questions. In this installment they touch on Norwegian fjords, planning a safari and more.
The popularity of river cruises seems to be increasing exponentially, with new boats on the rivers of France, Botswana and the Amazon.
Each year, we have the pleasure of recalling our travel experiences and singling out a number of particularly memorable hotels and resorts. Here are the properties that Andrew Harper selected in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Andrew Harper's favorite Vietnam beach resorts
The two-thousand-mile coastline of Vietnam is emerging as a major beach destination, and its fine resorts now provide ideal places in which to relax at the conclusion of a demanding tour of Asia.
The rich waters of the South China Sea make the area around Phan Thiet and Mui Ne an important production center for the most emblematic of all Vietnamese condiments, nuoc-mâm.
The Vietnamese kitchen is as regional as that of Italy or Mexico.
Despite Vietnam’s rapid economic growth, the hotel choices in Ho Chi Minh City are surprisingly limited.
Aqua Mekong Launching in 2014, the M/V Aqua Mekong will be a custom-designed luxury cruise ship including a spa, screening room and outdoor pool.
India’s palace hotels are living links to the era of the maharajahs, the 200 years prior to independence when semi- autonomous princes ruled much of the country. The newly restored Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad is now perhaps the most opulent palace hotel of all.
Having missed Hue on previous visits to Vietnam, I was determined to make it a priority on my most recent one.
The 50 villas at Vietnam’s Six Senses Con Dao overlook Bai Dat Doc, a broad, gently curving mile-long strand of dazzling sand lapped by the tranquil aquamarine waters of the South China Sea.
A collection of images from Mr. Harper's recent trip to Six Senses Con Dao, Vietnam. Please visit here to
On the 45-minute flight to the Con Dao Islands, 150 miles south of Ho Chi Minh City, I mused that the mere fact that I was traveling to what had long been a fearsome penal colony was a happy ending to several sorrowful chapters of Vietnamese history.
Compared to Saigon, Hanoi seems almost reserved, with little of the former’s hustle and entrepreneurial zeal.
Hanoi is a lively city filled with energy that will easily catch you up in its whirl.
This week's featured auction is a three-night stay in a Superior Seaview Villa at Evason Ana Mandara & Six Senses Spa in Nha Trang (a retail value of $1,564) for an opening bid of $940.
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