Our new art tour of Saigon
From Sacred Sculpture to Socialist Propaganda and Contemporary Art is a new art tour in Ho Chi Minh City from Old Compass Travel More than a decade ago our old friend Sophie Hughes started running art tours in Ho Chi Minh City. Putting Vietnamese art at the centre of Saigon’s story was her unique idea […]
2025 – Vietnam’s big year of anniversaries
Hung King Temple, Saigon © Mark Bowyer If you’re travelling to Vietnam in 2025, you’ll be colliding with some big anniversaries in Vietnam’s history. Big events in Vietnam’s twentieth century history have a strange habit of occurring in years that end in 5. So 2025 is a year packed with anniversaries. The United States has […]
The Quiet American still captivates history-minded travellers in Vietnam
The Quiet American 1966 cover © Mark Bowyer One of the many rewards of our recent Vietnam by the Book tour, was rereading Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American is one of three books I used to create our Vietnam by the Book, 16 day tour. So I was very pleased […]