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Dong Ha
Travel Blogs from Dong Ha, Vietnam
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Moto THIS!
This is a top pick! Please don't arrive in Dong Ha without enough money in your wallet. It will only cause problems. Dong Ha is the capital of Quang Tri province, and as such has the most resources of any city in the area. That is a frightening prospect. However what ...
Turbo Charged Escapes
This is a top pick! ... though, which are not only better cycling food, but mean we can chill out on our own in the quiet. Anyway, when we arrived, Dong Ha was another large city and after cycling round and checking it all out, we found a 3* hotel which had a clean £10 ...
Overnight bus rant
... However whilst we were waiting for them to call us back miraculously a bus showed up. Woohoo we don’t have to stay in Dong Ha! The bus driver rushed us onto the bus and went to the back supposedly looking for a bed for us and then turned ...
Vietnam
This is a top pick! This morning we caught our bus to Dong Ha - Vietnam which is near the DMZ (demilitarized zone) that used to separate North from South. Once we were in Dong Ha we booked our ticket North to Hanoi that night and wandered around while we waited for our night ...
Easy Riding!
This is a top pick! What a great decision to stop off in Dong Ha - this will definitely be one of our most memorable and random days! Dong Ha is a town right in the middle of the demilitarized zone in Vietnam and the most bombed during the American-Vietnam War as we saw from ...
Dong Phu Vieng Trekking
Kelly and I have just returned from a National Geographic adventure. We spent three days and two nights trekking in the eastern part of Laos with an eco-tourism company based in Savannaket. The company prides itself with local travel, local food, ...
The DMZ
Hue is around 70kms south of the former Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), that split Vietnam into two - north and south. The north being communist, and the south capitalist and occupied by the French after WW2 and later on the US. We both decided to do an all-day ...
Doing hard time on a hard sleeper
... followed up with another six month stint years later because the he didn't get as educated as he should have. The area around Dong Ha was garrisoned very heavily by the US during the war and saw quite a bit of fighting. In our day driving ...
DMZ Tour
... cleared by napalm. All that was left of the base was one concrete bunker. We listened to stories and asked questions about the Vietnam War. Mr. Bin gave us a lot of information that we did not learn in school or from Hollywood. At the national ...
Tanks, Tunnels and Thunder
As I arrived downstairs for breakfast this morning Tri was there, ready to pack up my bag onto the back of the bike and get going. He put my bags into plastic bags and then tied them tightly onto the back of the bike. We got going on the main highway ...
...and grey depression sunk in
... and I were lucky to get two hours sleep) by our train steaming into a station - a quick rush suggested this might be Dong Ha, but further investigation found that it was Dong Hoi, Dong Ha's 95km northern neighbour. We eventually made it to Dong ...
Lesson time
... book. Especially for a country with whom you're not actually at war - America were only ever officially in Vietnam in an advisory capacity, they never actually declared war. I'd heard of the Tet Offensive but didn't understand the scale, ...
The Vinh Moc Tunnels - Highway 1
The afternoon took us through Dong Ha to the Vinh Moc Tunnels. These are larger than the Chu Chi Tunnels out of Ho Chi Minh City. We passed over the Ben Hai River which originally acted as a demarcation line between North and South ...
Dong Ha....ummmm, where?
... getting out at Dong Ha. Hue is the next big tourist attraction to the south offering up fantastic beaches and a lively nightlife. Dong Ha, on the other hand, is a small, grey industrial town just north of the DMZ. It boasts very little of ...
Endlose Stufen im Nationalpark
Frueh aufgestanden, ein wenig gefruehstueckt und dann ging es auch schon ab zu unserer (Paul, Silvia und ich) Trekking-Tagestour. Unser angeblich englisch-sprechender Fuehrer sprach zwar einige Brocken Englisch aber verstand kaum etwas. Den Anfang der ...
A one horse town
We set off for Laos today. the bus took us to a town on the Vietnamese side of the border, called Dong Ha to spend one night there before being picked up by another bus and taken across the border into Laos the next morning. It was a bit of a nothing ...
DMZ Tour
... much, but the experience was a little better than the train ride to Sapa I think. Anyway, when the bus stopped for breakfast in Dong Ha about 6:30 AM, we got out of our bunks and had some coffee. I don't think I've talked about Vietnamese coffee ...
The DMZ
... brief pit stop back at Dong Ha for lunch, then back on the bus, passing: Truong Son Cemetery: Vietnam's biggest military cemetery, just outside Dong Ha, where over 10,000 soldiers are buried. Hien Luong bridge: big steel thing built by the French over ...
The Tour to "Hell on Earth"
... of the Australians was a Vietnam war veteran – which surprised us because we didn't know that Australians fought in the Vietnam war. It took 2 ½ hours to reach Dong Ha. Dong Ha is in the center of the DMZ and was the site of a major US base. ...
I left my heart to the sappers 'round Khe Sahn...
... This was to be the first major victory for the North Vietnamese Army in 1973. It was then that the capital was relocated to Dong Ha. Eventually we left and made the trip out to visit Khe Sahn. Unfortunately as the weather was rather crappy a great deal ...
Entering nam
... so we went back to Pakse for a few days and also Savvanakhet for a day. We got a bus from Savvanakhet to a town in Vietnam called Dong Ha. Had fun at the border on the way, had to have our temperatires checked (maybe something to do with swine flu). They ...
Dong Ha
Hierher kommt eigentlich niemand :-) Dong Ha dient allein als Night Stop, um anschliessend nach Laos weiterzureisen. Wie bereits erwaehnt nehmen die meisten Touris einen direkten Bus von Hue nach Savannakhet in Laos und nur die Spinner gehen auf eigene ...
North South divide
... all our questions which was good as some times the tour guides are useless. First stop was and old field around 16km outside of Dong Ha which was preivously a US base. You could see were bunkers had previously been and we stood on the hill were a watch ...
Hassle's at the Border!!!
... been going on. Thankfully everyone was just laughing. A couple of hours later we were dropped off along the side of a highway somewhere near Dong Ha. No station. No town. Nothing! We just stood there. 'What should we do?' we wondered. So we stayed for a ...
Happy Woman's Day
... ) about how he hopes that all Vietnamese people I meet will be as friendly as this school (ha) of teachers and that relations between England and Vietnam can always go forward. Some other general talk and the conversation ended with him giving me his ...
serata nel nulla
... a Hue mi hanno detto che volendo avrei potuto prendere subito il bus per il Laos. Quello che pero quel demente non mi ha detto e' che non potro comunque passare la dogana di notte. Quindi ora sono in una citta piccola piccola con solo vietnamiti in giro ...
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