Destination: Vietnam

Gallery: Vietnam; Hoi An and Dalat

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Photo Gallery

Road to Dalat

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [1387]

The first raindrops fell as our bus left from Hoi An.   And it poured all night long.   The sleeper bus is a good concept.   It has three rows of reclining ‘business-class’ beds, two levels high.   Unfortunately they are designed for shorter, narrower ... Read more >

A Hoi An Morning

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 | By seesea | Views [653]

Five AM is the most peaceful hour in Vietnam.  There are no trucks or buses on the street; only the occasional motorbike putts by.  A lone woman trots to "her" spot on the kerb, her pho pots bouncing up and down suspended from a bamboo pole ... Read more >

Oh Holy Ground!

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 | By willpeach | Views [516]

There was once an arguably great British band called Athlete. They once had an arguably good little single that went something like this: “You got wires, going in. You got wires, coming out of your skin”. Wires? In skin? What the deuce? ... Read more >

Gallery: Sapa and the end of our Trip

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Cambodia

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Saigon onto Mekong Delta and Cambodia

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Heading South

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Photo Gallery

Gallery: We Arrived

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Photo Gallery

The Bamboo Cafe experience.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 | By supertopoz | Views [398] | 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 [733]

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 [2214]

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 [474]

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 [388]