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The Wrong Time of Year in Sapa – Sapa, Vietnam
The Wrong Time of Year in Sapa
Sapa, Vietnam
Sapa is 380km north of Hanoi and situated in the hills. This area contains Vietnam’s highest mountain. In the middle of winter, we found Hanoi chilly so it came as no surprise that Sapa was cold. However, I didn’t realise how wet it was.
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Vietnam Travel Facts
The Basics
City Name: Ho Chi Minh City
Where is it located?: Ho Chi Minh City is in southern Vietnam on the Saigon river near the Mekong Delta.
Why do people go there?: Once called Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, is Vietnam’s economic and cultural capital, the second most populous city in the
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Hanoi Travel Facts
The Basics
City Name: Hanoi
Where is it located?: Hanoi is in northern Vietnam on the Red river.
Why do people go there?: Hanoi has a good mixture of both French and Asian influences to make it worth a peak. The impressive Halong Bay isn’t too far from here.
How do travelers get there
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The Millennium Trip – Letter #13
Mickey Mouse walked into the cafe closely followed by Pluto. He was dressed in battle fatigues and he had a green handkerchief tied over his head in the way favoured by GI’s during the war. He had cut two holes in the top of the handkerchief where his ears stuck out.
“Where are y
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Backwards in Hanoi – Hanoi, Vietnam
Backwards in Hanoi
Hanoi, Vietnam
A woman in leggings and a baggy t-shirt is attempting to jog backwards, waddling like a disorientated duck, arms pumping and sweat pouring while we watch on smugly, lazily sitting on tiny plastic chairs drinking cold Sprites and Fantas. We are in Lenin Park in
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Nineteen Hours from Home (and about twenty hours more of just hanging around) – Saigon, Vietnam
Nineteen Hours from Home (and about twenty hours more of just hanging around)
Saigon, Vietnam
One o’clock in the morning is not a good time to be stumbling off an airplane preparing to drive yourself home. It was the end of the longest Fourth of July of my life. I had endured a thirty-six
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Breaking Up on the Road is Hard To Do – Hue, Vietnam
Breaking Up on the Road is Hard To Do
Hue, Vietnam
“How did you sleep last night?” asked the guest house owner, a bit more solicitous than when I had arrived the day before.
“Very well, thank you.”
“Oh, the boy, he changed rooms yesterday, so I wondered.”
Bre
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Tin Tin in Vietnam – Vietnam
Tin Tin in Vietnam
Vietnam
The taxi drivers badgered me the instant I came out of the Hue train station.
There were too many drivers for too few customers. I was surrounded. I was also pretty tired and in no mood for their antics. My ‘death stare’ was useless.
One driver was calm an
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Water Skiing in Vietnam – Circa 1970 – Vung Tau, South Vietnam
Water Skiing in Vietnam – Circa 1970
Vung Tau, South Vietnam
What possessed me to get into a speedboat with four mates and head out into the murky waters of Vung Tau Harbour is something I still question, thirty-five years later. Who would want to water ski in water that looked like and s
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Vietnam Revisited: Face to Face With the Enemy – Again: Part 1 – Vietnam
Vietnam Revisited: Face to Face With the Enemy – Again: Part 1
Vietnam
“We need you to conduct a Training Needs Analysis in Saigon, Richard, are you available?” For the compulsive traveler it is so difficult not to immediately yell out YES when dream projects come along like t
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Vietnam Revisited: Face to Face With the Enemy – Again: Part 2
Vietnam Revisited: Face to Face With the Enemy – Again: Part 2
Vietnam
David from BP, picked me up at the residence and drove to the Golden Phoenix restaurant at the Equatorial Hotel were we met up with Ian, an American biologist working with the Vietnamese government in Hanoi and the a h
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A Cultural Feast – Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam
A Cultural Feast
Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam
I found a monkey under my table at breakfast this morning. I wasn’t sure if this was normal or not so I tried to ignore it, but kept thinking of that movie “Outbreak.” I was digging for my camera when the owner of the cafe hu
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Horn Happy – Vietnam
Horn Happy
Vietnam
‘Meep… Meeep……. Meeerreeeerrepppppp”… Went the crackling horn as our bus passed another vehicle.
‘Meep… Meeep……. Meeerreeeerrepppppp”… Again as we passed an entire family on a motorcycle.
‘MeepR
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Laos Visa Scam in Hanoi – Hanoi, Vietnam
Laos Visa Scam in Hanoi
Hanoi, Vietnam
I want to warn travellers in Vietnam who are planning on going to Laos to be wary of hotels and guesthouses that offer to get your 1 month Laos visa for you. I had my hotel in Hanoi do it for me, and they totally scammed me. The name of the hotel is Camill
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Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail – Central Highlands, Vietnam
Riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Central Highlands, Vietnam
Orphans in Kontum At our journey’s end, we again found ourselves in the jungle and I was reminded of Dung, on that first day, yelling back to me, “You see real Vietnam.” I came to understand in the days in-between that li
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My Vietnam – Vietnam
My Vietnam
Central Vietnam
A child brought me to Vietnam. My lifestyle does not afford me the time for my own children. Nor does my wanderlust allow for it. Over the years I have sought out other people’s children to love. Whether by spoiling my own niece, Mara, babysitting for friends or
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Hanoi Heaven – Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi Heaven
Hanoi, Vietnam
Temple of LiteratureEven the taxi drivers were very entertaining. There was the one taxi driver who, upon seeing that we were looking around for a bar to have some drinks and probably wanting to put us in a party mode, popped Dragostea Din Tea by O-zone into his CD p
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Please Pass the Gonads – Vietnam
Please Pass The Gonads
Vietnam
It was an instant connection. Tong offered his pointer finger and moved his head in a manner that lured me to tug it. I did, he farted, and we laughed.
With flip-flops in tatters and a quick smile, my new nineteen year-old friend strolled the streets of Hoi An wit
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Along The Way In Vietnam – Vietnam, Asia
Sunset in Vietnam
Traveling in a small tour group provides more opportunities to touch lives than traveling in large groups. A trip to Vietnam with two plus and a guide showed us that. We went from Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap, Cambodia to see Angkor Wat, then Hanoi to Sapa, on to Hue
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The Road to Da Nang – Vietnam, Asia
I am paralyzed with fear. Sitting in the backseat of a taxi with my wife and ten-year-old son, there is not a seat belt to be found. My son’s fingers have turned white as he grabs my pant leg. His eyes are closed, most likely from fright not fatigue. I sit clutching a door handle foolishly thin
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