Murray Travel Company

Name: Murray Travel Company
Address: Cape Town, ZA
Telephone: +27765836842

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Founder-led travel consultancy specialising in Vietnam, Indochina and Cape Town. Personally designed journeys and hosted travel for discerning clients 🇻🇳

30/10/2026

Vietnam's turtles nest on islands that were once a prison.

Côn Đảo is an archipelago of sixteen islands about 185 kilometres off the southern coast. Most of it is national park, on land and at sea, and its beaches take more nesting green turtles than anywhere else in Vietnam. The females come ashore between March and October, with the peak from June to September, mostly on the smaller islets such as Bảy Cạnh.

The islands carry a much heavier history alongside it. The French established a prison here in 1862 and it stayed in use, under different flags, for more than a century. The cell blocks are still standing and still open to visitors.

It is worth saying plainly: this is not a straightforward beach week. It takes planning to reach, and the history sits alongside the swimming rather than tucked out of sight. If you want somewhere uncomplicated, we would tell you and suggest elsewhere.

If you want somewhere that stays with you, ask us about it.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

28/10/2026

We also build tours around a sport, and they work differently to an ordinary group trip.

In May we hosted the Canadian Moose Hockey Club through South Africa — Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal — around a fixture schedule. The travel has to fit the sport rather than the other way round. Rest days in the right places. Transfers that do not wreck the legs. Somewhere decent to eat at ten at night when a game finishes late.

We do the same for golf in Vietnam, where the courses around Hanoi, Đà Nẵng and Ho Chi Minh City are genuinely good and still uncrowded by international standards.

Club, team or society — talk to us early. Fixture calendars and tee times both need lead time.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

26/10/2026

There is a system to the Mekong's floating markets, and it is worth knowing before you go.

At Cái Răng, outside Cần Thơ, three to four hundred boats trade on the water each morning. Nobody shouts. Instead each boat raises a tall bamboo pole, the cây bẹo, and ties a sample of whatever it is selling to the top. Pineapples, pumpkins, sweet potatoes. You read the poles from across the river and steer towards the one you want.

Trading starts around five in the morning and the real business is finished by seven. Arrive at nine and you will find souvenir boats and not much else.

The Mekong rewards an early start. We build that in. Ask us about the southern leg.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and South Africa

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

22/10/2026

If you want to see the rice terraces turn gold, now is when to talk to us.

Mù Cang Chải in Yên Bái province has some of the most dramatic terraced hillsides in Vietnam, cut into the slopes over generations by Hmong families and still worked by hand. For most of the year they are green, or filled with water and reflecting the sky.

Then for a few weeks from late September into early October the rice ripens and the whole valley turns.

It is a short window and the dates move each year with the weather. If this is the trip you have had in mind, message us. We will tell you honestly whether there is still room to arrange it for this season or whether we should be looking at next.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

15/08/2026

Hosted group journeys in Vietnam require more than logistics. They require leadership, continuity, and trusted presence - both throughout the journey and on the ground.

Our group experiences are hosted by Murray and supported in-region by Thuy, our incredible Vietnam-based partner, with journeys backed by an exclusive collaboration with Vietnam Tourism, the country’s most established travel authority.

This depth allows us to design and host specialist group experiences - including Vietnam golf tours - with confidence, cultural context, and calm oversight from start to finish.

Ready to take your next step? Connect with us at:

📲 +27 76 583 6842
🌐 https://murraytravelcompany.com/
📩 [email protected]

14/08/2026

For the travel trade - agents, ITCs and operators building Indochina programmes.

Murray is the officially appointed representative of Vietnamtourism-Hanoi JSC for South Africa and North America. A written mandate, not an informal arrangement.

What that means for you: booking Vietnam through us is booking through Vietnamtourism-Hanoi. You get VNT's rate, with no additional layer priced in, and a contact in your own timezone and language who answers the phone.

VNT has operated out of Hanoi since 1960. Their own guides, their own transport, directly contracted hotels, and 24-hour in-country support.

Building Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos? Message us for trade rates. Trade bookings are handled agent-to-agent - your client stays yours.

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Murray Travel Company
Official representative of Vietnamtourism-Hanoi JSC
South Africa & North America

Trade enquiries:
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+27 76 583 6842
murraytravelcompany.com

12/08/2026

The largest cave on earth admits a thousand people a year.

Sơn Đoòng sits inside Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park in Quảng Bình province. Its main passage runs about nine kilometres and reaches 200 metres high in places. There is enough space inside for a stretch of jungle to grow, lit through skylights where the roof has collapsed.

Vietnam licenses a single operator and caps numbers at a thousand visitors annually. Expeditions run January to August and book out far ahead.

You do not need to get into Sơn Đoòng for Phong Nha to be worth the journey. Hang Én and Paradise Cave are extraordinary and far easier to reach. Tell us your appetite for it and we will build the trip to match.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

10/08/2026

The boatwomen of Ninh Bình row with their feet.

It is not a trick for visitors. Sitting facing forward and working the oars with the soles of the feet spares the arms and back, and lets them row for hours. You will see it right through Tràng An and Tam Cốc.

Tràng An became a UNESCO site in 2014, the first place in Southeast Asia listed for both its natural and its cultural value. Threaded through the limestone are 49 caves, temples in hidden valleys, and Hoa Lư, which was Vietnam's capital a thousand years ago.

If you only have time for one boat trip, we would take Tràng An. Tam Cốc is a there-and-back through the rice paddies and it is lovely. Tràng An is a loop that takes you through the caves themselves. Different trip.

Two hours south of Hanoi. Ask us how it fits.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

05/08/2026

Once a month, Hội An turns the lights off.

On the 14th night of each lunar month, the evening before the full moon, the old town closes to traffic and switches off its electric lighting. What is left is lantern light, candles, and paper lanterns floating down the Hoài River.

It is not staged for visitors. Hội An was a working trading port in the 16th and 17th centuries, taking in Japanese, Chinese and Dutch merchants, and the lanterns have marked the full moon here for a very long time.

One thing worth knowing: it is the 14th night, not the full moon on the 15th. People arrive a day late and miss it entirely.

Tell us your dates and we will check them against the lunar calendar before you book anything.

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Murray Travel Company
Hosted journeys in Vietnam, Indochina and the Cape

murraytravelcompany.com
[email protected]
+27 76 583 6842
Cape Town, South Africa

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