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Wed, 9 Jan 2008 | By ciaranandruth | Views [1369]
It's all about the war. Well, maybe it's our obsession, but it seems that everything's about the war. Every government building has a remnant of the war at its front. Some are Vietnamese planes or weapons. More are American. Maybe they were careless, ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 | By tmaskew | Views [466]
What a trip! We went from the farthest northern point of Sapa, to the Mekong Delta and many places in between--doing exactly what I had hoped--introducing the boys to their homeland. An adventure it was and it will no doubt remain with us for many ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 | By ciaranandruth | Views [3010]
"Saigon, ...., I love the smell of a freshly made omlette in the morning." Sitting down for breakfast, you don't think there's likely to be an apocolypse any day now, not inside the hotel walls anyhow. And not up on the rooftop pool. Maybe ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 | By ciaranandruth | Views [1059]
Where's the sun? Seriously, this is a bit ridiculous. It's 30 degrees, hot and humid, but no sign of the sun, moon, stars or even the sky. You feel the smog on your skin, in your lungs. Maybe it's just down to our mild irritation, a natural consequence ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 | By tmaskew | Views [310]
I spent today in Saigon, poking around Cholon (Chinatown) and searching for a peaceful pagoda where I could spend a couple hours--unforunately "peaceful" and "Saigon" are polar opposites. While I nursed my sore body, the boys hopped ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 5 Jan 2008 | By tmaskew | Views [457]
Today we made our way to Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City to all but those who live here. This is a huge place--with a decidedly international feel. If they weren't selling Pho on every corner, I'd swear I was in New York...Frankly, I'd pick Hanoi ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Wed, 2 Jan 2008 | By tmaskew | Views [434]
We hopped a train from Hue, headed to Hoi An. I was still deep in thought about being in Central Viet Nam. It was a very emotional day, as I watched the countryside go by and we passed places whose names are burned into my conciousness--Khe Sanh, Da ... Read more >
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Tue, 1 Jan 2008 | By tmaskew | Views [431]
We left Hanoi today (sadly) and headed to Hue, the ancient capital of Viet Nam. We visited the ancient citadel and saw remnants of the Nguyen dynasty and then traveled out to a small pagoda on a hill overlooking the river--a place of immense calm and ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By ciaranandruth | Views [889]
Led by a tiny map we navigated through the labyrith of tiny streets and crowded alleyways of the Old Quarter in search of Bach Ma temple, the oldest of all the buildings in that quarter of Hanoi, apparently. Eventually, after much map gazing we gave ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | By cisoux | Views [1016]
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 [1072]
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 [1327]
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 [924]
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 [879]
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
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