Ash the Owl: How to Get There

Da Nang to Hoi An: Every Way to Get There in 2026 (And Why the Bus Advice

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Twenty-eight kilometres. Twenty-eight minutes in a car. Of all the journeys in Vietnam, Da Nang to Hoi An is the one that should need no explaining at all. And yet this is the route where I have watched more travellers waste more time than on Vietnamese journeys three times its length. Not because the road is difficult — it is flat and dull in the best possible way. Because almost everything written in English about how to get from Da Nang to Hoi An is describing a bus that stopped running in 2020, or a bus that was renumbered out of existence in 2025. And because the last three hundred […]
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Hanoi to Ha Long Bay: Which Bay, Which Port, and How to Get There

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Getting to Ha Long Bay is a solved problem. It is about 147 km from the Hanoi Old Quarter, two expressways cover nearly all of it, and if you have booked a cruise the transfer is probably included. The decision that matters is the one most people make by accident: which bay. There are three of them in the same limestone seascape, they look identical in photographs, and they are not remotely alike to be in. One has hundreds of boats on the same route. The others do not. The short version: book the cruise first and let it bring you — the drive is the same whichever bay you choose. Pick Lan […]
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Hanoi to Ninh Binh: How to Get There, and Get Around (2026)

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Getting to Ninh Binh is the easy half. It is 93 km from Hanoi, an expressway covers most of it, and half a dozen operators will collect you from your hotel. You can be there in about two hours. The half nobody warns you about is what happens when you arrive. Ninh Binh is not a place you stand in and look at. The things you came for — the boat trips, the caves, the temples — are scattered across twenty kilometres of countryside, and nothing useful connects them. Travellers who plan the journey carefully and the arrival not at all end up paying a driver to improvise their day. The […]
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