Norway could easily claim the title of the world’s most deceptively big country, so why not take it all in at a leisurely pace with one of the world’s best train journeys?

Norway is famed as one of the world’s most naturally beautiful countries. So incredible is this tome-worn land that many of its wondrous landscapes are able to fly almost completely off the radar. In search of hidden gems, what Finding Earth writer Matthew Walsh encounters tucked away among quiet fjords is truly one of Europe’s greatest natural treasures.

It’s one of the world’s fastest emerging tourist destinations, a thundering hive of history, hospitality and home-brew beer, but as I found, there’s an altogether stranger side to Hanoi lying at its heart.