If you want to be a bit more adventurous then you can try a variety of modes of travel.

• The Reunification Express runs from Hanoi to Saigon, and is a microcosm of life in Vietnam. It is slow and fairly uncomfortable, but an experience in itself.
• When you arrive at your destination, take a ‘cyclo’— a three-wheeled rickshaw with a seat in the front and a driver peddling behind.
• Wherever you go you will see dozens of bicycles and Honda Motorbikes, often carrying a whole family.
• Vietnam is a wet country and there is a wide range of water transport. In some places, such as Tam Coc-Bich Dong, you can even be a passenger in a boat propelled by someone using their feet! In Hoi An people still fish in the sea using coracle boats.