Destination: Vietnam

The Road is Long,The Long Long Road, With Many Winding Turns...

Tue, 6 Feb 2007 | By cindyhowes | Views [350]

The Road is Long,The Long Long Road, With Many Winding Turns... Once back in Pakse we boarded another bus heading up to Sivanakhet for another 5 hours. Eventually, we arrived intending on ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

Dalat, Vietnam

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 | By fancyfree | Views [936]

Dalat, Vietnam – 3 to 5 February, 2007 As scheduled, we were picked up from our hotel early in the morning by a minibus. That in turn took us to the travel agents office where we waited for the big bus. While there we booked a hotel so we didn’t ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Return to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sat, 3 Feb 2007 | By fancyfree | Views [668]

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 1 to 3 February, 2007 We caught the puddle jumper back in HCMC and made our way to the hotel we had stayed in during our first visit. After arriving at the hotel only to find our internet reservations never made it, the ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 | By fancyfree | Views [1151] | Comments [2]

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam 27 January – 1 February, 2007 After checking out of the hotel in HCMC, the taxi driver that was to take us to the airport for our flight to Phu Quoc spoke no English, so we hoped we had communicated “airport” properly. We ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Hue

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [915]

Isnt it funny how we all can experience the same thing and have completely different perceptions of that experience? We met lots of people who really enjoyed Hue - mostly because it was chilled out. In my opinion it was really really boring, the people ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 | By fancyfree | Views [1186] | Comments [1]

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 25 – 27 January, 2007 The flight to Ho Chi Minh City was another uneventful trip. Once again we had no hotel reservations on arrival, and we saw a hotel reservation desk after clearing immigration and customs. We found what ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Danang and Hoi An

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [1526]

Because Danang was so far away we decided to splurg on our budget and take an overnight train. The idea is you sleep on board and get breakfast in the morning, all whilst travelling. Great idea, except they couldnt turn the heating off in our cabin, ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

Gallery: The Epic Journey

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 | By stin_kendra | Photo Gallery

motorcycle diaries

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 | By stin_kendra | Views [1292] | Comments [4]

quick apology before you start reading...this is going to be a long one!  we hope you don't get bored by the end.  we just had the most epic journey through the northwest of vietnam on an ancient russian motorcycle, the "minsk" (a 125cc, 2 ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains

Nha Trang

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [1362]

We were glad to get away from Dalat, even though we had a pretty good tour with the Easy Riders. Nha Trang is approx 4 hours from Dalat, and is a very big city - several million people. On the beach front lies the tourist area, and where we stayed. ... Read more >

Tags: Beaches & sunshine

Dalat

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [930]

We were told that Dalat was a major hightlight for several people: how wonderful the hill tribe people were, how amazing the Easy Rider tour guys were. In all honesty I found the place really boring apart from a couple of key experiences. We ended up ... Read more >

Tags: Misadventures

coastal meanderings

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 | By stin_kendra | Views [799] | Comments [1]

last we wrote we had just arrived in the beach town of Nha Trang, warming our bones from the cool mountain air.  we managed to even out our tans with a day on the beach, renting another motorcycle to find our secluded piece of sun at Doc Let's white ... Read more >

Tags: Shopping

Mui Ne

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [1234]

After arriving back from our Mekong tour, we jumped aboard a bus to Mui Ne and arrived at 12.30 am in the morning. Lucky for us there was a man sleeping out in the open in the garden with a torch - just waiting for us! The place is a typical beach resort ... Read more >

Tags: Relaxation

Gallery: Vietnam

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Photo Gallery

Saigon

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 | By shockalotti | Views [780]

After leaving Space Station 9 at Hong Kong Star Trek HQ we landed in Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City. This place was pretty basic compared to Hong Kong - reminded me of Fiji Airport actually. First thing that happened was a bunch of taxi drivers virtually ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road