Vietnam

Expert advice and holiday tips for Ho Chi Minh City, plus northern, central and southern Vietnam. Features the coast, islands, Mekong and Red River Deltas, northern mountains, Central Highlands, Hanoi, Kon Tum, Phong Na and Halong Bay. Covers where to stay and eat, what to see and do, culture, history and responsible travel.

Joshua Zukas (joshuazukas.com) is a Vietnam-based writer who covers travel and architecture. He has contributed to travel guides and stories for Lonely Planet, Fodor's Travel and Ink Global, which produces award-winning content for the world's biggest airlines. He also contributes intermittently to The Economist, BBC News, The Independent and various other publications. Prioritising depth over breadth, Joshua writes almost exclusively about Vietnam, a country he has lived in (on and off) for 15 years. He studied Linguistics and Southeast Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he specialised in Vietnam and Indonesia. He also has an MSc from the University of Glasgow in Sustainable Tourism, where his research focus was on attitudes to sustainable tourism. He is currently pursuing a PhD in tourism and sustainability at Australian university RMIT at its campus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.