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Tue, 2 Dec 2008 | By pshah13 | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 2 Dec 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [4471]
Hoi An is my favourite town so far. It is a small 3 laned town on the banks of a river and is a living museum of historic life. It is such a beautiful town. No cars are allowed in the town. The town is decorated with lanterns everywhere and on certain ... Read more >
Tags: hoi an, vietnam
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 | By willpeach | Views [1372]
I’m a little xe-om driver short and stout, I drive on two
wheels, with my jacket inside out… My name is Phuc, which is hilarious to most
of my customers. I come from a long line
of motorbike taxi drivers, my uncle drove the first Honda to ever ... Read more >
Tags: driving, motorbike, saigon, vietnam, xe-om
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [1802]
Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) is a big city with lots of history. We visited the Cu Chi tunnels where the Khmer Rouge lived and hid from the Americans by digging tunnels no wider than the length of your feet!!! It is also on the huge Mekong river and close ... Read more >
Tags: ho chi minh, saigon, vietnam
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By pshah13 | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [1059]
the next morning I was up early to get the bus to the boat. Phat was suppose to meet me there to get the bus also, but there was no sign of her. I was hoping that she was running late and would meet me at the boat instead. But what was going through ... Read more >
Tags: delta, homestay, mekong
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 | By pshah13 | Views [581] | Comments [3]
I am Miss Saigon for 3 days here and it has been good. Its a young fun city with many 'Yuppies'. Sights are good, drinks are great and tailors are fantastic (had 2 outfits tailor made!!!) Heading for mid Vietnam (Hoi An) tomorrow for more fun. Special ... Read more >
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 | By glimmerwing | Views [836] | Comments [1]
I arrived to ha tien just after nine that next morning. I was trying to figure out how to get to the boat to get to phu quoc island. I know I had just come from an island but it was suppose to be very nice and I decided to try and get there. A moto driver ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, phu quoc island
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [694]
Teaching, travelling and living. Not a bad way to see the
world eh? In the meantime however, one has to put up with sudden pangs of
horror. “Oh Christ, I’m actually a teacher and therefore expected…” Whilst row
upon row of young eyes bear into me, ... Read more >
Tags: abroad, celta, efl, english, teaching, tefl, tesol, vietnam
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [475]
Jack Kerouac.
Why did I not discover this man earlier in life? He is my hero with a voice of which I’ve longed to articulate. Seriously, his mantra is mine.
Just finished reading The Dharma Bums, the successor to The Subterraneans and the second ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [394] | Comments [1]
This week I have been so busy. I get up at about 4.30 do my lesson planning and then go to school and print out my work to make the class. Which is really bad because I hate spending 3 hours creating a class. I would never do that any where. But having ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [1521]
I first 'visited' Vietnam in 1968. During my time 'in country' Richard Nixon was elected president, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and the massacre at My Lai became public knowledge. In the US (back in "The World' as the GIs called it) the ... Read more >
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [1077]
Our trip into the Mekong Delta wasn’t exactly what we believed we had signed up for. Instead of a relaxing boat trip along the river we took a crowded tourist bus to My Tho. Most of the others also felt they had been deceived. It is a case ... Read more >
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [415] | Comments [1]
The Weekend of the 15th and 16th of November. This weekend has been hectic, I flew from Hanoi to Saigon on Saturday afternoon, and spent much of Saturday evening looking for somewhere to stay. Basically because the person who promised Lan a room changed ... Read more >
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [584] | Comments [1]
Trip to the Perfume Pagoda. We took a mini bus at about 8am and set out for the perfume pagoda. All went well on the trip. There are a few good highways in Vietnam, but even the best ones have areas with large potholes. The most crazy thing of course ... Read more >
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