Vietnam Travel guide

Sights & ActivitiesXeo Quyt Forest NATURE RESERVESoutheast of Cao Lanh and  accessible by boat tour is the  beautiful  52-hectare Xeo Quyt Forest (also called Rung Tram) near My Hiep village. One  vast swamp beneath a wonderful  thick canopy of tall trees and vines, it’s one of the final  natural  forests left in the Mekong Delta.During the wet  season a […] Read More

 Why Go? Where to begin with Angkor? There is no  greater attention   of architectural  riches anywhere all over the world.  All are global icons and have helped  put Cambodia on the map as the temple capital of Asia. These days, the monuments are a point of  pilgrimage for all Khmers, and no visitor to the region will […] Read More

 It cannot be denied that Angkor is heaven on earth. It is the earthly  representation of Mt Meru, the Mt Olympus of the Hindu faith and the abode of  ancient gods. Angkor is the  wonderful  fusion of  creative ambition and spiritual  devotion. The Cambodian ‘god-kings’ of old each strove to better their ancestors in size, […] Read More

It trumpets a small  claim to fame as the setting for The Lover, a semi-autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, made into  a film by Jean-Jacques Annaud.Landscape Huynh Thuy Le Old House HISTORICAL BUILDING(Nha Co Huynh Thuy Le; 0939 533 523; 225A Ð Nguyen Hue; admission 10,000d) This beautifully impressive  1895 house on the riverfront was once the residence of Huynh Thuy Le, […] Read More

Banteay Srei HINDU TEMPLEDeemed by many to be the jewel in the crown of Angkorian art, Banteay Srei – a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva – is cut from stone of a pinkish hue and contains  many  of the  finest stone carving anywhere in the world . Begun in AD 967, it is one of the […] Read More

Sights  Ta Prohm BUDDHIST TEMPLEThe  eventual Indiana Jones fantasy, Ta Prohm is cloaked  in  dappled gloominess, its  decomposing  towers and walls locked in the unhurried, well-built embrace of  enormous  main  systems. If Angkor Wat, the Bayon and other temples are  proof to the genius of the ancient Khmers, Ta Prohm reminds  us equally of the very good prolificacy  and […] Read More

Every  gate (North, South, East, West and Victory) towers above the  visitor, the  magnanimous faces of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara staring out over the kingdom. Imagine that you were  a peasant in the 13th century approaching the forbidding capital for the first time? It would have been a formidable but  unsettling experience to  enter such a gateway and come directly  with […] Read More