Fortunato and Veralda Mazzone are sharing their holiday diary while in Vietnam. It's been an eye-opening time; a time for ...

It didn’t bother me (too much), but one of the people I was traveling with cut ... we left the city and headed east toward Halong Bay, part of the Gulf of Tonkin, a 600-square-mile area that ...

Among our stops: Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An and Hue. We skipped Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city and its financial hub -- still called Saigon by most Vietnamese -- because we figured one ...

Yet another astonishing day in Vietnam. A visit and a short one-night cruise on Halong Bay. The hospitality of the Vietnamese people continues to astound me. It is inherent. Their warmth and ...

Located a few blocks west of the lake is the notorious Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the “Hanoi Hilton” by American prisoners of war during the Vietnam War (called the American War here and ...