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Fri, 18 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [1461]
In the minibus coming back from the River Kwae were A. and R., two
Brisbanites. "I thought you were foreign so I was speaking to you
really slowly", said A., on discovering I was also Australian - the peril of
being half-Japanese, ... Read more >
Tags: General
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [785]
I think the last time I'd been to a zoo may have been Ange and Kieren's
wedding reception; the only visible animals small and tasty. Saigon's
Historical Museum was closed on Mondays, however, and since the zoo was
adjacent it seemed a waste of a ... Read more >
Tags: General
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 | By taroso | Views [1143]
History is fungible Every War Museum I've been to has presented its own version of events; I suppose that the history presented by the Australian War Memorial is similarly individual, but since it presents a history aligned with what we learned ... Read more >
Tags: General
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 | By realeyes | Photo Gallery
Saigon, Nha Trang, Hanoi
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Tue, 1 Aug 2006 | By realeyes | Views [2551]
Koreans work a brutal amount of hours in a week, and a brutal amount of days in a year, and unfortunately that means that so do I. On my blink-and-it's-gone vacation time in July, I jetted off to Viet Nam with my co-worker-friend Shawna looking ... Read more >
Tags: Misadventures
Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | By leelefever | Views [910] | Comments [1]
Anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes on the streets of SE Asia knows the street hawkers – the people selling goods and services on the street. The most dominant and tenacious of the hawkers are the drivers- people offering rides on their tuk-... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 | By leelefever | Views [631]
We are suckers for cool places in the mountains. Da Lat, Vietnam lured us with temperatures in the 60's and the promise of experiencing Vietnam's vacation and honeymoon capital. What we found was an intersting look at Vietnamese vacation ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2008]
I woke up with itching, burning lips and the skin under my lip, going half-way down to my chin was red, flaky and itchy. The skin on the inside of my mouth approaching my gums also had sores on it. The doctor diagnosed this as a fungal infection probably ... Read more >
Tags: doctors, hospitals & health, true claim stories
Sat, 20 May 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Views [947] | Comments [4]
Sailing down narrow tree-lined streets on the back of a Honda Dream Motorcycle. Through small villages, high-fiving the local kids, we made our way from the city of Hue out into the unvanquishable Vietnamese countryside. A kingdom of rice fields and ancestor ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 13 May 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Views [2343] | Comments [1]
We're now on day 4 in the lovely town of Hoi An. We plan to stay for another 6 nights so our pace has slowed down accordingly. We have weaned ourselves from the A/C to save 2$ a night, and of course, so that we can adapt in preperation for the humidity ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Fri, 12 May 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Photo Gallery
Our lazy days in Sapa, Hanoi & Hoi An
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Mon, 8 May 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Views [2371] | Comments [1]
Hanoi. A city drenched in sweat like a french cake marinated in a lusty liquour. It's hot and the change from the dry mountainous climate of northern Yunnan has given our bodies much to complain about. We are trying to use the AC as little as possible ... Read more >
Tags: Scams & Robberies
Tue, 2 May 2006 | By smelt_and_gizzard | Views [629]
After bus mix-ups and the dreaded 10 hour sleeper bus from Kunming, we are now settled in at a hotel with a view in Sapa, a hillside resort town 35 km from the Chinese/Vietnamese border. For $5 a night we have a gorgeous view of a valley of rice paddies ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 | By doherty1957 | Photo Gallery
Beach resort, I went native
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Fri, 21 Apr 2006 | By doherty1957 | Photo Gallery
Where the commies used to fight the yanks
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