While Hanoi has much to see, it is also easy and worthwhile to get out of town. The tourism industry in Vietnam in a model of efficiency and organization. Small storefronts pepper the Old Quarter offering up a menu of daytrips and overnight choices, all at reasonable prices, and complemented in the virtual marketplace where… Read More Bending With the Wind
Pleasant memories of my younger days, warmed by 15 years of nostalgia, led to Hanoi’s selection for a fall trip. With just over a week on the ground, Hannah and I opted to base ourselves in the long-running Vietnamese capital, a tireless yet pleasant city set along the curving floodplain of the Red River. Revisiting… Read More Open Door Renovations
Along with our longer day trips, we traveled to many different areas in the city as well. Transportation is the life blood of any city, the key ingredient to it all functioning, and this is truer yet in a megacity like Mexico. Driving here appears to be an act of faith, enduring frustration punctuated by… Read More Under the Fifth Sun
There is so much to see beyond the boundaries of Mexico City that deciding which direction to head is almost paralyzing. Fortunately, Mexico’s Secretariat of Tourism has come to the rescue with its Pueblos Magicos program, an on-and-off-again effort meant to highlight the many places worthy of a visit around the country. At the risk… Read More Pueblos Magicos
It had been over a decade since my first and only trip to Mexico City and I was long overdue for a sequel. True to the Hollywood formula, all the successful elements of that trip – locale, food, people, sights – were dutifully recreated. Like any sequel, new elements like my wife and a proper… Read More CDMX: The Sequel
Zak Abroad 