Destination: Vietnam

The Bamboo Cafe experience.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [439] | Comments [1]

Picture in your mind 1000’s of bamboo sticks latticed together to form a kind of wicker looking house. Put this into a restaurant, on the walls and the ceiling and then you have got the bamboo café. It would have looked cool about 30 years ago. Now it ... Read more >

Hoi An and Danang

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [823]

The bus from Hue to Hoi An takes 3 hours with only a couple of stops.   At Danang, An, one of the bus company’s employees, started talking to me.   He served with the ARVN in the Americal Division during the war and we reminisced about ‘the good old ... Read more >

My Tho is Bleeding!

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [2259]

My Tho is very interesting. When taken with students that is. Our trip there from Saigon took about an hour and a half and the road surface was much more forgiving than the previous outing to Cu Chi. I could even read. For a short while. Until ... Read more >

Tags: bee farm, heart of darkness, joseph conrad, mekong, my tho, snake farm

Our rest day trip up to Halong Bay

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [522]

Not much happened which was unusal today, we took a boat and went up to Ha Long bay to see some caves and to see various other sights. We also went Canoeing and snorkeling. So I will mention about the people we went with. A couple from Lithuania Who ... Read more >

Gallery: Trip to halong bay

Sun, 9 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Photo Gallery

Luang Prebang

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 | By katandstevie | Views [410]

Hanoi to Hue

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [931]

You can get a visa for Cambodia at most border crossings from Vietnam.   With the operative word being “most” we decided to get ours at the Cambodian embassy in Hanoi.   What is normally a 2-day process was expedited to 10 minutes for a few dollars.... Read more >

Butterfly valley

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [717]

Butter fly valley. This is THE place to climb on Cat Bat Island. We travel there by motor bike, we could travel by one bike which is cheaper. But it seems more beneficial to the guys we rent the bikes from to hire two and go with two bikes. Before ... Read more >

Gallery: Butterfly valley

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Photo Gallery

Don't Be A Prick (-ly customer)!

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [639]

Don’t drink in Saigon. It’s cheap and tempting I know. I agree it’s alluring to sit on those flimsy little plastic chairs with your rotund backside nicely nestled at your local bia hoi, however stand up and the chair is still surprisingly stuck ... Read more >

Tags: bia hoi, drinking, drunk, vietnam

Gallery: My Toe's Been Cut Off!

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Vietnam; Around Hue

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Photo Gallery

The US Elections as Seen From Hanoi

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [603]

We have been out of touch on a junk cruising Halong Bay for the last couple of days.   Just because we didn’t know the results of the election doesn’t mean that we weren’t answering questions about the campaigns, the candidates, the electoral college, ... Read more >

Goodbye, Vietnam!

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 | By bongobunny_unterwegs | Views [428] | Comments [3]

es gibt mal wieder reiseanfaengerfehlerpeinlichkeiten zu berichten: ihr haettet bestimmt gern unsere gesichter gesehen, als der besorgte china airlines mensch uns am checkin in tokyo leider sagen musste: "sorry, i cant let you go on airplane. you ... Read more >

from Hong-Kong to Hanoi

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By manu-sean | Views [578] | Comments [1]

I have mustered 3 words in vietnamese: hello, iced coffee and thank you. Not bad?! so far... so wet. we're finally getting some respite from the typhoon rains that have blighted Vietnam in the past few days. Hanoi was completely flooded, we left on ... Read more >