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A Night on the Road to Mui Ne – Vietnam, Asia
The SceneI left Saigon at 8:30 P.M. on a tourist bus bound for Mui Ne, to meet a friend at a resort. The trip took about five hours, not a bad experience. Since it was a night trip, many passengers nodded off to sleep a couple of hours into the journey. The vehicle was a big tourist-type bus th
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The Vietnamese Haircut – Thai Nguyen, Vietnam, Asia
Getting a haircut overseas can be a hairy experience. Hesitant, I delayed getting one in Thai Nguyen, Vietnam until it became an absolute necessity. When the day ultimately came, I gathered my courage, strolled down my street and hopped in the first sidewalk chair available.
Draping a drip clot
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Memories of Days and Nights in Mui Ne – Vietnam, Asia
Wind and Kite Surfing
Mui Ne has an international reputation for being one of the places in the world to be when it comes to windsurfing and kitesurfing. It’s hardly surprising then that resorts, bars and restaurants stand side by side along the miles-long stretch of beach to cater to the inc
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Sapa by Motorbike -Vietnam, Asia
Adventure changed to trouble when I rounded the bend of a narrow road that had long ago turned to a sloppy single track of red mud.
A tempting sight leads to an exciting experienceDown in the valley below and barely visible through the mist was Sapa. I had taken my rented motorbike down a dirt
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How to be a Taxi Driver in Saigon – Vietnam, Asia
Positions Available: Applicants SoughtJob Title: Taxi DriverLocation: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)Qualifications Required: Driving license or some previous experience of having driven a car preferred, but not essential. Applicants must be heavy smokers. For non smokers, stale cigarette "air
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Return to Ho Chi Minh – Vietnam, Asia
Seven hours after leaving Sydney, I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, for the second time in six weeks. As soon as I stepped out of the airport, I felt like I had never left. All the familiar feelings came back. It was then I realized the very things I had once hated, were those I missed the most.
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Of Love and Backpack – Vietnam, Asia
This story begins, as most of my stories these days do, in an exotic locale where I'm desperately trying to win the affections of a disinterested 19-year-old European woman. It is composed of the usual ingredients: forbidden love, wild beasts, a quest for harmony between nations, a beach
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The Ho Chi Minh City Must Sees – Vietnam, Asia
Miss Saigon
While everyone knows these days that Vietnam’s capital is called Ho Chi Minh City, it’s a harder to romanticize about a man with the goatee than a melodic image of "Miss Saigon" in her ao dai and conical hat. As all visitors are aware, Ho Chi Minh City is
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Agent Orange – Vietnam, Asia
The Spock-haired waiter surprised us at our table; he asked if we were German, showing off his few blackened teeth resembling winter corn. When I admitted “American", his salamander smile slid off his face abruptly, then he announced with a piping castrato voice, “Spring roll with nuoc ma
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Bed Sacks and Leech Socks: Vietnamese National Parks – Vietnam, Asia
Richard Craik, our British expat bird guide, gave each of us two gifts when we arrived in Vietnam: a silk bed sack and a pair of canvas leech socks. My silk sheet was magenta in color and the leech socks were dark, camouflage green. The sheet was like a narrow sleeping bag and the socks looked
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Hoi An: A Stitch In Time – Vietnam, Asia
As the pretty young gal competently took my measurements,
her colleague distractedly recorded them in a jumbled notebook. I attempted
mental conversions from centimeters to inches, with the tape measure sizing up
the circumference of my neck, the size of my biceps and wrists, the outer
limits
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Caodai Calling – Vietnam, Asia
“What on my first two visits has seemed gay and bizarre (was) now like a game that had gone on too long.”
– Graham Greene, on Vietnam’s Caodai Cul.
It really didn’t make sense. There in front of me outside the smudged bus window was the Great Divine Temple at Tay Ninh, Vietnam –
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Worlds Collide in Hanoi – Vietnam, Asia
Pulling into Hanoi in the early hours of the morning on the night train from Hue, the streets were already busy. As the train rattled its way slowly through the city’s outlying suburbs, people everywhere seemed to be engaged in various forms of exercise: some walking in large groups that moved
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Sapa, Vietnam – Getting Out of Hanoi
Sapa
The night is cool and crisp and we are boarding our train from Hanoi,
Vietnam to the northern mountain town of Sapa. Our train is a modern
overnight sleeper; clean, comfortable, and sparkling white. The rest of
the station is like stepping back in time. Ancient boxcars darke
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Getting a Late Night Meal in Hanoi, Vietnam
As an undergraduate student I was fortunate enough to study abroad in Australia for two semesters. While there, I embarked on the traditional backpacker’s tour, jumping from hostel to hostel across the country. Backpacking in Australia is what I imagine being in a traveling rodeo is like; you
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In Vietnam, Capitals and Culture That Dazzle
Buddhist monks at the Citadel, Hue
The classic nearby way to get away from the city is a day trip to the Perfume Pagoda, and its cave of Buddhist shrines. Several travel agencies offer van rides down to the riverside embarking point, where visitors are led down into rowboats, which local wome
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Best BootsnAll Travel Photos: May 2010
Another month has passed, which means – among other things – it’s time for another article featuring some of the best travel photos we’ve had on WhyGo, our . I probably won’t use all the photos you send in immediately, but it’s highly likely I’ll use th
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How to Have Custom Clothes Made in Hoi An, Vietnam
Hand-tailored clothing has always been for the well-to-do: refined elitist fashion that fits like a glove but can cost an arm and a leg. Or at least it was, until word got out among savvy travelers about a tiny coastal town in the middle of Vietnam where hundreds of shops filled with fine fabri
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Motorbikes and Menu Roulette in Saigon
I survived Saigon on the back of a motorbike. There ought to be a medal for something like that.
You know how you’re driving and sometimes wish you could just turn around in the middle of the road, reverse until you get to that exit you just missed or haul ass down a one way street going
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Hues of Huế, Vietnam
Why are hotel breakfasts so awful and why am I always surprised by how awful they are? The only thing that marked this breakfast out from a thousand others was the procession of ants on the breakfast table, dispatched from this veil of tears by the killer hands of my wife and her napkin of terr
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