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Phu Quoc Island Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam
Backtracking To Paradise
This is a top pick! ... breakfast we took a cab to the airport. Our flight took just over an hour. Destination: Phu Quoc, an island off the south coast of Vietnam surrounded by white sand beaches with mountains and jungles inland. We were travelling south to ...
Beached!
This is a top pick! ... with rain. We decide to eat in at the little restaurant that's part of the hotel and save exploring for tomorrow. Phu Quoc is basically an up-and-coming holiday destination, currently relatively unspoilt, but probably going to be pretty horrendous in a ...
First There was SuperFerry, Then Came Super Dong
This is a top pick! If you're looking to take the ferry to Phu Quoc Island, some 125 kilometres off the south coast of Vietnam look no further. Super Dong is at your service. For rates and scheduling don't google it, though. You'll get a thousand and one websites ...
Are We Beach People?
This is a top pick! It would be hard to classify Phu Quoc Island as an 'undiscovered' beach paradise but it was not so long ago, that it really was that. Now there is a fair amount of development taking place but its still a long way away from comparisons with Hawaii- just ...
Through the Delta to Mango Bay
This is a top pick! ... the Vietnamese-Cambodian border-town of Chau Doc, we headed southwest to the coast and hopped a ferry to Phu Quoc Island, one of the last areas of Vietnam that isn't overdeveloped and full of tourists. Our first night Suzanne particulary enjoyed our $2 ...
Sunshine - woo hoo!
This is a top pick! ok this keyboard is dodgy so bear with me, also the travel pod cant seem to find phu quoc island - which is a lovely little island just south of the cambodian border in vietnam, we spent 5 days relaxing on the beach and scuba diving, toms previously burst ...
Phu Quoc: "It's Wonderbar!"
This is a top pick! ... , eating, drinking, walking, visiting the War Remnants Museum, and enjoying the pre-Tet sights, but our destination was Phu Quoc Island, south of Cambodia and claimed by both Cambodia and Vietnam yet government control didn't seem to matter too much on ...
Storms, sea and sand
This is a top pick! We arrived at our beach side hotel on Phu Quoc Island where we had booked a 'bungalow' with a sea view for the princely sum of US$20 per night. To get here involved turning off the dirt track that served as the island’s main north-south highway and ...
Four Lazy Days...
This is a top pick! Day 151 ; Another early morning and we was on our way to Phu Quoc. Took a taxi from the hotel to the jetty, the boat was like a bus all numbered seats and packed in like sardines, both of us slept for about an hour or so of the two and a half hour ...
Cocktails by the sea
We were up bright and early after the toad mating incident so after a lovely breakfast we headed striaght for the beach with the intention of staying there all day. The weather had forecast cloudy intervals so we thought it'd be bearable. We were wrong!! ...
Good morning Vietnam!
... our way by bus to the nearest large town of Rach Gia, from where we would get the hydrofoil to Phu Quoc island. We immediatly realised that people in Vietnam ( outside the main tourist towns ) speak very little English, and it was not to be long before ...
Jen screamed i Fxxxxxx
Breakfast over looking the ocean, Mick went for a walk, leaving me sunbathing in the shade, managed to burn my back. Leisurely day, down to our local bar for lunch, chilling out for rest of the afternoon, after 2 beers each, why is it we drink beer on ...
Sol sol sol...Sol Sol Palmer...Strender. Sol!
Turen fra Rach Gia gikk fort og temmelig greit. Men da vi skulle av baaten var det fullt kaos da bagen med med alt vi har kjoept her nede (skreddersydde klar, souvenirer, maleriet etc) plutselig var borte. Heldigvis var det en engel av en mann som saa ...
long way down. lost my fear of heights
Today is Monday, we'll we think it is, one day rolls into another. Totally. Vegged out, and to make things more exciting Mick decided to get our drinks first hand, cut out the middle man climbing a palm tree. Found a really good beach fronted restaurant, ...
Not a pretty sight
Mick and I had a surprise visitor in our room, a greco climbing up the wall, Mick in his enthusiasm to get rid of it, armed only with a magazine and a waste paper bin opened the front door of our villa to shoo it outside, I screamed, Mick wondering ...
This place is beautiful!
... . In case some of you don’t know because I certainly didn’t until a few days ago, Face Book is banned in Vietnam. That really solved my mystery as I thought the Internet was just really poor here or that my laptop didn't like it anymore. ...
Good Morning Vietnam
... bus ride brought us across the border which made life nice and easy for departing Cambodia and entering Vietnam. Catching a boat then from Hatien to Phu Quoc , we had arrived at what we'd read would be a pretty underdeveloped and undiscovered island whith ...
We. Just. Want. To. Go. Swimming!
Just spent 3 days in Phu Quoc and after an EPIC nap, huge dinner and a good night sleep we were ready to go! Off to explore the island... However, the exploration didn't go so well... for some reason we couldn't find a swimmable beach on an ...
Why does it always rain on me?
... this is also due to the fact you have to walk a little way to the next restaurant and there are no street lights on the island so you definitely need a torch! It rained in the evening so we sat under out hut covers and played some games. This didn't end ...
Motocross
Wir mieten uns einen Roller und wollen diesmal den Norden der Insel abklappern. Der Vermieter erklaert uns den Roller sehr ausfuerhlich und weist uns sogar darauf hin, dass beim Linksabbiegen der linke Blinker gesetzt werden muss und beim Rechtsabbiegen ...
Happy New Year
Wir wuenschen Euch allen einen guten Rutsch und einen noch besseren Start ins Jahr 2011. Wir hoffen, bei unserer Rueckkehr noch mit den Ein oder Anderen auf das dann nicht mehr ganz so neue Jahr, anstossen zu koennen. Prost zaeme! ...
A Word on Happiness...
... as vast and endless as time itself. This, I realized as I was lounging on the beach for the 5th day in a row on Phu Quoc Island, is the world of traveling; this is life in its most genuine form. A world of unequivocal happiness. Disclaimer: You may think ...
We found paradise!!
... for the next bus departing in 20min. After 4hours we caught 2 motorbikes that helped us buying tickets for the last boat departing to Phu Quoc Island. It was actually possible to do it in the same day against what all agencies told us. The boat was very ...
Attempting a Moped
Where has the sun gone!!!? I've just woke up nice and early to brace myself for another beautiful day on the beach with some pool dipping, in hope of catching some more rays and the sun has vanished. ;-( humm well maybe I will just have to make do with a ...
I'm a beach bum today!
... . As I’ve said before fishing is a big activity here and it’s their money making business. I know Phu Quoc imports a lot of stuff from Vietnam so general supplies are limited but they export the fish to compensate. I enjoyed walking around the ...
When you're sliding into first and you're...
... but to cringe whenever the overused "American Devil" came up in the film. Thefollowing day I caught an hour flight down to Phu Quoc Island which is in the Gulf of Thailand on the coast of Vietnam and Cambodia. It's interesting to note that Phu ...
Sun, Sand and Complete Relaxation
Well, I have just spent the last eight days relaxing on a remote Vietnamese island called Phu Quoc Island. This place is fantastic - quiet, remote, not touristy at all! I just can't bring myself to leave. I am renting a room almost right on the beach ...
Living the Dream.
... that stage mom's are not just an American phonomenon. The next morning we woke up before dawn to catch the fast boat to Phu Quoc island. Our boat was called "The Superdong". I chose our boat strictly on the basis of it's name. However, the dong ...
Tam Biet Saigon!
... beach. Life here is very fast and we think it takes a lot out of your life expectancy. Not sure of the wifi capabilities on Phu Quoc; we'll be there for four nights. Hopefully we'll be able to continue writing during that time. We wish all our family ...
Beaches, forests and some mechanical failures
... Thailand off the west coast of Vietnam. Though famous as much for its production of fish sauce - popular throughout Vietnam - as anything else, Phu Quoc is increasingly gaining a reputation as an undiscovered gem, which means that it's on the verge of ...