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HCMC (Saigon) - Land under

14 August 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: We arrived in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (HCMC) at around 6 am. We did not have the greatest sleep in the sleeper bus we took from Nha Trang and just wished for a hotel room with a nice bed to relax a bit. As we already described in other stories it is not the easiest thing to get a hotel room early in the...

Nha Trang - breathe in and out, just relax

12 August 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: Since we met the Dutch couple in Mongolia P. and I have been thinking that it would be cool to do a diving course somewhere while travelling. We had been checking a good few locations online and decided that doing it in Vietnam would be the cheapest and easiest way. We checked out the diving cent...

Hoi An - Hello my friend

11 August 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: We had been travelling for a while now and we needed to get some more appropriate clothes: P for the heat and I needed a new pair of trousers as my old ones featured a massive hole just below the bump and every Vietnamese person pointed at it when I went past. So our next stop was for Hoi An &quo...

Hué - Sightseeing in 40 degrees

10 August 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: We left Hanoi by night bus. This time we did not opt for a sleeper bus after the experience we had in China. So we took a normal seater night bus. We met a nice English guy we had a long chat with. P boldly decided to make sure that he would have the 5 seats at the back of the bus for himself. i ...

Cruising in Ha'long Bay

30 July 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: We left Hanoi on a tour for Halong Bay. Our tour group was small enough: 6 people (one American and one Autralian couple and the two of us) + 1 guide. We drove by bus (about 3 1/2 hours) to Halong bay Harbour where a nice jonk waited for us to come aboard. Once refreshed and all our stuff (one wa...

Hanoi - That's how you imagine urban Vietnam

25 July 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: The night train pulled into one of Hanoi's train stations on the dot. My first impression of Hanoi was "hot, damp and busy but also full of flowers, trees and plants".  We decided to share a taxi into town with the Canadians and the Spanish guy. We tried to find a taxi with a meter...

SAPA: a few meters but what a change!

17 July 2008 | Last Update 24 August 2008

A: Once we had gained ground under our foot again we were in Vietnam. The border formalities were quickly done. We had a good laugh when we filled in the "Health information sheet". Have you got fever, diahorrea,... please tick YES or NO. P had had all these symptoms the last week and a ha...

      
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