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Prioritising depth over breadth, I author books, write articles and speak on podcasts about Vietnam, a country I've called home for almost two decades.

I've covered culture and society for The Economist and Business Insider; design and architecture for Wallpaper* and Interior Design Magazine; food and drink for the MICHELIN guide and National Geographic Traveller; ecotourism for Mongabay and travel for Travel + Leisure, AFAR, The Times, Adventure.com, Hidden Compass and Asia's top in-flight magazines. I'm also Bradt Guides's author liaison; a lead writer, curator and mentor for Lonely Planet; a destination expert for The Telegraph and an audio guide publisher for VoiceMap. 

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Click here to find the physical and digital versions of my Bradt guidebook. In it you'll find:

· Advice on choosing the right mountains, beaches, caves and road trips to optimise your time in Vietnam.

· Tips on how to get the most out of key cities and towns while avoiding those pesky crowds.

· Dozens of recounted myths and legends, adding texture and context to the country’s history and culture.

· Specialist contributions from local journalists, historians, academics and travel experts to give depth to your trip.

Featured Work

Vietnam Coracle •

Genesis: Vietnam's Creation Myth

In the beginning, there was chaos. The realms – and everything that would later exist within them – were a knotted tangle of pre-elemental threads. The first entity to emerge from this primordial disarray was Ông Trời, the supreme deity, who set the sequence of creation in motion by pulling apart heaven and earth. By separating the universe into the physical and the ethereal, Ông Trời infused the universe with its most fundamental law: everything must exist within a system of cosmic balance. Vietnamese mythology is heavily influenced by Taoism, and this concept of duality is perhaps best understood through the lens of the Taoist yin-yang symbol, which has two equal but antithetical halves, each containing an element of its opposite.