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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
trekking around Sapa
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
trekking around Sapa
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
pictures from the boat
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
pictures from the boat
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
several days in Hanoi
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Views [750]
Took the night train from Hanoi and arrived into Lao Cai, about 1.5 hours away from Sapa the final destination for a overnight trek and homestay. After a cramped minibus ride to Sapa we arrived at the hotel handling our tour and were met by 20 local ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Views [765]
After a cramped minibus ride to Halong Bay we boarded our junk boat for lunch. Halong means descending dragon and legend has it dragons came to fight the devils who were going to attack the villagers. The locals also believe dragons never left and help ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Views [573]
I toured Hanoi for the day including visiting the infamous Hao Lo prison otherwise known as Hanoi Hilton. This is where American POWs were held during the Vietnam war including John McCain. It was a quick tour and the prison actually has more interesting ... Read more >
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By seesea | Views [1654]
Saturday night’s ten-hour, 340 km train ride from Hanoi to Lao Cai was hardly the Orient Express but it is the most convenient way to reach Sapa and Vietnam’s hill people. We shared a sleeper coach with a couple of like-minded travelers from Christchurch, ... Read more >
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 | By seesea | Views [746]
Today was a day of history and culture with a bit of political indoctrination thrown in for free. The history of Vietnam is interwoven with 1000 years of Chinese influence. Vietnam declared its independence from China near the end of the 10 th ... Read more >
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 | By kim_gilmour | Views [389] | Comments [3]
Xin chao (pronounced sine jow) everyone! I'm going to try really hard to keep this brief as it's getting late and we're in an internet cafe. We have been in Saigon or HO Chi Minh City as it's known to most Americans. We arrrived here Monday morning on ... Read more >
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 | By seesea | Views [772]
There isn’t much about the Narita Airport that we don’t know, after six hours of wandering around yesterday. Our JAL plane to Hanoi left on time after a bumpy beginning the five hour flight smoothed out but o ur promised ride to the Golden Lotus ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 | By seesea | Views [1272]
Lynn and Hector dropped us at the Days Inn near DIA on Friday night so we could catch our 6AM Saturday flight. We flew to Dallas, changed planes and headed westward. Thirteen hours, three movies and two and a half meals later and it is 3 PM Sunday ... Read more >
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
coast
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Sun, 19 Oct 2008 | By houdyman | Photo Gallery
vietman
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