Dong Ha, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Moto THIS!
Jun 11, 2006 (30 photos)

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 ...

Vietnam
Jul 20, 2005

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!
Jan 8, 2005 (3 photos)

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 ...

Lesson time
Jun 2, 2009

... 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 Tour to "Hell on Earth"
Oct 4, 2009 (21 photos)

... 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. Today ...

Doing hard time on a hard sleeper
Feb 26, 2007 (21 photos)

... 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 around, ...

DMZ Tour
Jan 11, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 cemetery ...

...and grey depression sunk in
Dec 16, 2008

... 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 Ha ...

DMZ Demilitarised Zone
Aug 10, 2007

Dong Ha

The Vinh Moc Tunnels - Highway 1
Feb 22, 2009 (10 photos)

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 Vietnam.& ...

Dong Ha....ummmm, where?
Jan 23, 2006 (34 photos)

... 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 ...

A one horse town
Jul 22, 2009

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 town, ...

Entering nam
May 12, 2009

... 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
Jul 14, 2009 (4 photos)

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
May 23, 2009

... 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 ...

Ding-dong on the way to Dong Ha
Mar 6, 2007 (1 photos)

... , we had a bus to catch so we paid our money and went to ask about tickets.  There we discovered that the regular bus to Dong Ha was full, but there was an enterprising man who was happy to take us on his minibus for 50,000 dong each, which was more ...

serata nel nulla
Jun 12, 2007

... 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 ...

The Rock Pile
Aug 5, 2009 (5 photos)

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Khe Sanh Combat Base
Aug 5, 2009 (19 photos)

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DMZ
Dec 7, 2007 (8 photos)

The bus made a breakfast stop at 8:00 AM in Dong Ha, where we were approached by a seemingly earnest man touting his services as a tour guide for the DMZ and the Vinh Moc Tunnels, which is pretty much right where we were.  Hue, a couple of hours south ...

Dakrong Bridge
Aug 5, 2009 (11 photos)

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Dong Ha - Vin Moc Tunnels
Jul 16, 2009 (13 photos)

The lonely planet guide book says there's no reason to vist Dong Ha, however we think differently. We arrived in Dong Ha by train and were picked up by a moto-taxi driver Mr Hoa who took us to our guest house. He is a really nice guy and he holds a wealth ...

Smiling Faces
Mar 17, 2009 (5 photos)

... with her pack, I expect that may have been an even bigger challenge than my wide load.  She was traveling through Vietnam before heading home after a year of teaching english in Korea.  She was obviously hard up for some English because we had a ...

Central VietnamTrip
Nov 20, 2003 (4 photos)

... little hearts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW ENTRY.... 2 weeks ago we were in Central Vietnam. Here's what we did: Dong Ha: Still pissed at our director for making us stay in this tiny ...

Touring the DMZ
May 15, 2008 (7 photos)

Hired some bikes and spent the day driving around the DMZ

Here for a few days to Explore the DMZ Zone
Aug 4, 2009

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DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
Dec 9, 2006 (30 photos)

... Dean konnte uns die Zusammenhaenge der langjaehrigen Kriegsgeschichte ein wenig erklaeren. Sie ist unheimlich komplex, Vietnam kaempfte eigentlich das gesamte letzte Jahrhundert fuer seine Unabhaengigkeit, der eigentliche "ami" Vietnamkrieg ist ...

Properly seeing the effects of the "American" war
Aug 28, 2009 (48 photos)

... we had every meal! They did the best noodle soup... We had read about betel nut which is something the locals chew for a buzz... In Dong Ha, we actually found a local woman selling it (or so we thought) and decided to give it a go. Unfortunately, due to ...

Visitando i luoghi colpiti dalla guerra. VIETNAM
Jul 29, 2009

Ore 9.00 am, siamo belli riposati... Si parte con un pulmino verso nord diretti alla citta' di Dong Ha (77 km a nord di Hue). Ore 11.00 am, noleggiamo uno scooter e partiamo per un tour autoorganizzato nella DMZ (zona smilitarizzata). Dal 1954 al 1975, il ...

The american war on northern Vietnam
Nov 21, 2006

Me again After a horrible night bus journey from Hanoi we rocked up at Dong Ha as a scheduled (well not to us) breakfast stop.  I hadnt slept much at all during the night and was just a little bit tired i have to say.  It wasnt until i was ...