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Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [1087]
Lianyi had been sniffling and coughing a lot and suffering from an
on-and-off fever since Halong Bay. That was Tuesday. We thought nothing
of it, just kept plying him with Panadol and Strepsils and their
Vietnamese equivalents. On Saturday I found ... Read more >
Tags: hanoi, vietnam
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [1136]
On Day 7, I woke up feeling pretty sad because Xai had left that morning. It would be a long time before we would see him again. I remember the next two days being quite aimless. I think we were quite bored of Hanoi by then. We'd overestimated the amount ... Read more >
Tags: hanoi, tam coc, vietnam
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [1453]
The Hanoi Hilton , so called by American prisoners of war, is a prison in downtown Hanoi, now serving as a museum to tell of all the ills inflicted on this country and her brave revolutionaries by the oppressive French colonialists, who built the prison ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Fri, 28 Dec 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Photo Gallery
These are the photographs from our trip in December 2007 and January 2008 to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, and Sydney in Australia.
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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [994]
That was some trip - hours in the air, madness on the streets, eventually we got to the hotel and recovered with 8 or 9 hours of the deepest sleep imaginable. We woke only to explore the Old Quarter , a wonderful but chaotic assortment of narrow streets, ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [950]
When I woke up that morning I opened the door and found Xai standing outside my room, about to knock. And behind him, a giant cliff passing by. Til today, that's still one of my very best travel memories. There's something magical about waking up ... Read more >
Tags: halong bay, hanoi, kinh do, vietnam
Wed, 26 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [802]
We woke up early, around 7 am, to take our bus to Halong Bay at 7:45 am. The bus was super crowded. It was really just a mni-van. Every seat was filled with a tourist and any other available floor space was filled with a backpack. The tour guide took ... Read more >
Tags: halong bay, vietnam
Tue, 25 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [1049]
Lianyi : Do you go up to attractive Hmong girls and ask them, "Do you want to do radio?" And then they say, "Yes," and you bring them to your house and you say, "Ok, time for a mic test."? Xai : "Can you take off ... Read more >
Tags: hanoi, vietnam
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 | By tmaskew | Views [433]
After our day in Ha Noi with Connor's family, he and Patrick traveled back to Thai Nguyen to visit the villages of their births (what Connor's family called "returning to the homeland"). Connor to Phu Lac, where the whole village turned ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [2710]
Well
really not much happened today. Lianyi and I took a Pacific
Airlines flight to Hanoi at 10 am. To board, we had to take a shuttle
bus from the gate to the plane. On the bus we made friends with
Raphael, a middle-aged Australian ... Read more >
Tags: hanoi, vietnam
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 | By tmaskew | Views [443]
Today we had the privilege to meet Connor's mother, brother, uncle and cousin. Their story is his to tell, not mine. It is a gift--one that so many adoptees will never have--to see one's roots, to gather information, to connect. From my perspective, ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Sun, 23 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [1826]
We booked a day trip out of Ho Chi Minh City today, to go to the Cao
Dai Temple and the Cu Chi Tunnels. It cost us only 6 US dollars each. We
set off at 8 a.m. A bus picked us up at our guesthouse after breakfast,
which was provided free at ... Read more >
Tags: cao dai, cu chi, ho chi minh city, saigon, vietnam
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By tmaskew | Views [782]
One of the main reasons we came to Viet Nam was to see the birth families of my sons. Tomorrow, we shall meet the family of my youngest son for the first time. I have no qualms about doing so. I've always tried to create a place where none of my ... Read more >
Tags: Family
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By beaker | Views [679]
I looked across to Bec from my position on the roof. “Ok, you ready with the camera?” “Yep.” “Right then. One……..two……..three!!!!!” I leapt out into the fresh air and found myslef sideways, arms and legs flailing about crazily. Bec snapped away with ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 | By tmaskew | Views [389]
One of the few memories Connor has about Viet Nam (he was about 5 years when he left) was "the red bridge." Today, we immersed ourselves in the Viet Nam we remember, and in Viet Nam the new. Some things never change--the wonderful maze of ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
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