A Few Days in Mai Chau

Sitting at the end of a four-hour drive from Hanoi, up, over and into the mist covered mountains, the tribal villages and rice terraces of Mai Chau are a world away from city life. Sometimes it's hard to believe that we actually live in this country...

Mai Chau Valley

A chopstick factory worker bundles the freshly cut bamboo ready for drying

Vietnamese Sarnies

So as one of my jobs last month, I got to choose the best banh mi in Saigon. For three days in a row I was fuelled by nothing but bread and meat! If you're outside of Vietnam, here's the online version.

I now also have my own mini-profile on the Word website with all of my articles listed as soon as they appear online.

The past couple of months have also seen me picking up work from another prestigious Vietnamese publication, AsiaLIFE. With a print edition magazine in HCMC, its own online radio station and a website covering Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, it's certainly an exciting group to be working for.

Check me out in the March and April print issues, or click the links below for the online versions.

Saigon's Top Five Lunch Deals

The Asian Social Circus Association


Coming soon: A lightning fast roundup of the past two months in Vietnam.