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Tue, 24 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1110]
Hoi An is the custom clothing factory of Vietnam. People come from all over the world with pictures and catalogs displaying the articles of designer clothing they want to have duplicated and tailor fit to their bodies. Silk and fabric shops line the ... Read more >
Tags: Shopping
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1198]
Hoi An is a quaint, colorful town, full of character, culture and atmosphere. Walking through the streets we find ourselves in a swirl of brilliant colors. Vietnamese silk lanterns hang from shop windows and decorate the exterior of buildings. Their ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1119]
Every trip, on or off a bus, train, plane, or car is an ordeal. We assemble our back pack straps, pulling them out of their big protective sacs for bus/plane ride protection, and load p for our usual peruse through town to find a spot to sleep. Our ... Read more >
Tags: Packing & gadgets
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1375]
We hop aboard our An Phu (pronounced by us as An "POO" for their quality of service and bus) to Hoi An. It's a 12 hour overnight bus, and is supposed to be a nice, big, A/C coach with reclining seats. What picks us up, instead, is similar ... Read more >
Tags: planes trains & automobiles
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 | By lissaur | Photo Gallery
best ride so far.
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Sat, 21 Jul 2007 | By beckydidulich | Views [262]
So I've now
been here exactly a week, and in some ways feel like i've been here forever.
Still remember the first impressions, so I can compare those with my thoughts
now, and it feels like a lot has changed. Information overload. Also in terms
of ... Read more >
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1262]
By 6:30 a.m. the sun is ablaze and I'm finding it difficult to breath on my early morning run. We decide to kick it on the beach under the palapalas for the day, until we catch our overnight bus to Hoi An. If you love seafood, Nha Trang is the place ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
Fri, 20 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1054]
Travelers along the way have told us, while in Nha Trang, the thing to do is take Mama Lin's Boat Cruise... the best value $5 USD will get you in all of Vietnam. We boarded our usual mode of transportation, a bus, at 8:00 a.m. and were happy to see ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | By lissaur | Views [1804] | Comments [3]
the bikes are running smooth now after getting refited in saigon with some new spokes and relined brakepads. turns out that after all my searching it is next to impossible to buy shimano pads for disc brakes, so at their insistance, i didnt really want ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1260]
We arrive Nha Trang mid-morning. Stepping off the bus, we could be in any major ocean resort town in the US. Big hotels and tall skinny mini-hotels line the streets. Beach huts, palapalas neatly line the beach front. Every third shop is a scuba ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 | By beckydidulich | Views [263]
First up was my farewell Saturday night, with a
little help from Tams, Remi, Owen and Annie. I had a
fantastic time, and it was well worth the 5:30am finish. Tams and Rem took me
to the airport, and I only just managed to hold it together. Fast ... Read more >
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1249]
The Peace Cafe is the hip spot in Dalat to socialize with the locals. it's also a main meeting point for the Easy Riders. We sped hours at the cafe over many beers, learning about how these Southern Vietnamese guys feel about the war, and how they feel ... Read more >
Tags: People
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | By rjallen | Views [1296] | Comments [3]
We are now in Saigon! Home to 6,000,000 motorbikes and about the same amount of people. We came here via bus from Phnom Penh, nothing particularly scenic or memorable about the trip, but easy nonetheless. After leaving Sihanoukville we decided to ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | By ktphelan1980 | Photo Gallery
Asia Cup Game in Hanoi!
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [4024]
Dalat is an outdoor adventure sport enthusiasts dream. The climate, the mountains, rugged landscape and spirit of the people have all come together to develop a great outdoor sporting infrastructure... so many cool things to do, so little time. We chose ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
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