*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026.
Hello, friends! Happy weekend! I hope this post finds you in the mood for a spot of armchair travelling, because I’m here to share my latest travel guide with you: Two Weeks in Vietnam | Our Top Tips & Itinerary! Back in September, Husband and I had the pleasure of jetting off to a new-to-us country: Vietnam! Can you believe that just seven short months after our first ever trip to Asia, we somehow managed to visit again? How jammy are we!? Anyways! We went to Vietnam and it was amazing!! I have many a food & city guide coming your way in the near future, but I figured we’d better start with the basics: our top tips and itinerary.
Including flights and travel time, our trip ended up being just over 14-days long. During our two weeks in Vietnam, we explored three cities across the northern and central regions: Hanoi, Hội An, and Huế. Yes, realistically, we probably could’ve squeezed another city or two into our itinerary on a daytrip or what-have-you, but we’re big advocates of the ‘slow travel’ mentality. You know, where you nestle down, tuck yourself into the patchwork of a place, and pretend to be local. It’s our very favourite way to travel!
A full breakdown of our very top tips, covering everything from weather to cash to internal travel etc., and our itinerary, can be found below. If you’re reading the web version of this post, you can navigate through the different sections by clicking on the bars to the left of the page.
Let’s hop to it, shall we? Enjoy, friends!
Side note: if you’d like some background noise for your armchair travelling, we found the intro to Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown Hanoi episode extremely realistic. Listening to that opening montage of honks, birds, trucks and sirens takes me right back!
our top tips
To make this an easier read for everyone, I’ve divided our top tips into six main sections: visas / cash / internal travel / weather / safety / and vaccines + medicine. I’ve tried to include as much informational tidbits as I could scrounge up, so I really hope you find it useful!