Destination: Vietnam

Gallery: HANOI+SAPA

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 | By protonics | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Central Vietnam

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 | By gretch_costa | Photo Gallery

Central Vietnam and The Fever...

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 | By gretch_costa | Views [492]

So back into 'Nam, and you know about it the moment you step into Vietnamese territory.  Coming from laid back, rural Cambodia into bustling, populated and concreted Vietnam is quite the contrast.  But we were still in the hills, so nice enough.  ... Read more >

Gallery: Hoi An

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 | By liz_travels | Photo Gallery

One chilled out Uncle Ho in Hanoi

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [1960]

  Following the tour crowd off the bus from Halong Bay lead us to the Blue Star Hotel on Bat Dan Street. They tried to give us a really pokey windowless room for $12 but on declining a much better room with Air Con and wifi became available for the ... Read more >

Tags: barber, fan, guard, heatwave, history, mausoleum, moped tour, movie, power cut

The Halong Bay Fiasco 3

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [1164]

We didn't get much sleep due to the generator but we got enough. It turned out that the $65 couple's AC didn't work anyway. After a simple breakfast we stopped for 10 minutes to allow those who wanted to jump off and have a swim. The American and English ... Read more >

Tags: bribery, singing

The Halong Bay Fiasco 2

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [2986] | Comments [2]

Day two of the Halong bay tour started surprisingly similarly to day one. Claire was in the shower when the phone rang. The voice said ”Finish! Leave hotel now!” I looked at my watch: 7.10 and we had been told to meet at 7.30. Ignoring what had been ... Read more >

Tags: beach, boat, canoe, island, island, tour, trekking

Trekking in SAPA - 28th - 30th May

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 | By rebecca_fardoe | Views [835]

Thursday 28th May The train arrived in Lao Cai station at around 4.40am! This was very very painful. There was a minibus there to meet us at the station but we had to wait around for the next train to arrive. We eventually left around 5.30am. Sapa is ... Read more >

Tags: trekking

Gallery: Nha Trang and Monkey Island

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 | By liz_travels | Photo Gallery

The Halong Bay Fiasco 1

Sat, 6 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [2131]

It was an inauspicious start to the trip. We had slept through the alarm and were awoken by a heavy thumping on the paper thin bedroom door. The thoughtful receptionist had given us a 20 minute headstart before the promised air conditioned minivan ... Read more >

Tags: boat, cave, island, karaoke, mate, passport, tour

Gallery: Vietnam

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 | By eliza_rich | Photo Gallery

Hanoi, where the wild mopeds roam

Fri, 5 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Views [1659]

The first impressions of Hanoi in the taxi were that of a French city. It was after all the colonial capital of French Indochina so it shouldn't have been too surprising to be passing through ... Read more >

Tags: city, moped

Gallery: Vietnam - North

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 | By eoghancito | Photo Gallery

Nha Trang

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 | By david_s | Views [722] | Comments [1]

beach town.... it's a strip town. basically one long strip along the ocean with hotels everywhere. if it were in season, i'd easily name this the tourist hotspot of vietnam. they even had mock hollywood style lettering on an island across the water on ... Read more >

Gallery: Angkor Wat (continued)

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 | By liz_travels | Photo Gallery