After three days in Ho Chi Minh City, we were more than ready to replace the cacophony of horns and motorbikes with nature’s symphony, so we took a local bus 4.5 hours north to Cat Tien National Park. It is a large area of protected lowland tropical forests whose floral and fauna diversity has been recognized by the World Wildlife…

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Exploring Doc Let Beach From Da Lat, it was time to drop off the mountains to the stew pot of record topping heat and humidity below. While we could have high-tailed it to the tourist havens of Hoi An or Hue to make things “easy,” we wanted the opportunity to immerse ourselves in an authentic Vietnamese sea village first for…

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