Quang Ngai, Vietnam Travel Blogs

Quang Ngai and Around
Mar 8, 2009 (4 photos)

Itching to get a little off the beaten track we took a bus from Hoi An down the coast to Quang Ngai a smallish town without much domestic or foriegn tourist interest and then a motorbike to the nearby My Khe beach. We had trouble finding somewhere to ...

My Lai
Feb 2, 2004

... it forever changed the public opinion in the USA and was one of the key factors to ending American involvement in the Vietnam War.  Only 6 of the soldiers faced court martial and only 1 was convicted.  A Second Lieutenant by the name of ...

Quang Ngai and the My Lai Massacre
May 15, 2009 (22 photos)

... time between Da Nang and Nha Trang, we decided to spend a couple of nights at a small town called Quang Ngai. A very undeveloped part of Vietnam, yet to discover its full tourism potential, its only claim to fame is a sad one at that. About 2 ...

40 Years and 1 Day
Mar 30, 2008 (14 photos)

... a name coined by the US. All locals call the village where the massacre occurred Son My. Son My is 8km to the west of Quang Ngai, which is a mid-sized coastal town. Son My was and still is a small rice-growing village which now also has been set up ...

Seeing Vietnam by Bike v. Biking and Seeing Vt'nam
Jan 24, 2009 (9 photos)

... 's a bit of a culture clash going on.  There are on this tour people who are clearly more interested in biking than seeing Vietnam (in any kind of depth).   And then there's me.  I am the only person in the group who at home  ...

Pinkville
Jul 19, 2007

... Ngai, but the nice conductor managed to unlock the door before the train was moving too fast so I could jump out.  Quang Ngai is an impoverished provincial capital--my main goal was to arrange a train going to Saigon.  I managed ...

Good days, bad days and my ongoing beauty regime
Aug 20, 2007 (23 photos)

... disabled children get some interaction as they don't go to school at all. On Thursday Brenda, one of the volunteers, left Quang Ngai to go to a placement in Tam Ky. There were various goodbye cups of tea with different placements (apprently this happens ...

Fundraising for Ngai Hanh
Sep 18, 2007 (22 photos)

... physical therapy. GVN Volunteers provide additional physical and mental stimulation for the children. One volunteer who has been on Quang Ngai program saids about this center in her online journal that "Another place on our agenda for teaching English ...

Massage, mysiticism and Kareoke!
Aug 13, 2007 (40 photos)

... Nang placement. My first Vietnamese minibus experience. We got on at 12:15 and sat in the station for 40 mins, before driving round Quang Ngai until after 2 o' clock to pick up more passengers. In the back there were 4 rows of 3 seats, and a double seat ...

Christmas Cheer and the end of volunteering
Dec 27, 2007 (62 photos)

... hour and a half opening ceremony, after which the doctors were there for 2 hours. They would only see children from Quang Ngai city, so our children from rural placements couldn't come, after that the TV cameras and all the doctors swan off to ...

Rain.
Oct 2, 2007 (46 photos)

... came out pretty well... In the evening we went to an exciting bar where they have music and dancing- almost unheard of in Quang Ngai! Unfortunately it was closed so we ended up at good old Kareoke again. Drinking in Vietnam is a curious thing. It ...

Teachers' Day and other things
Nov 11, 2007 (28 photos)

... moments this month. I'm looking through my diary to help me write this and I can see smiley faces. We discovered a bar in Quang Ngai that serves gin and tonic, which is obviously fantastic news! I taught some new action rhymes to the children at the ...

Birthday Weekend- I am now Hai Bãy years old!
Aug 30, 2007 (39 photos)

Well I am a little late updating my blog this week. Everything has been crazy as Martin and Vicki (the other August volunteers) are leaving so we are being invited out every night to say goodbye to people. Last week we were out every night either teaching ...

Quang Ngai
Aug 2, 2007

Hi all, I am at my placement in Quang Ngai! I arrived last night and was inducted into Vietnamese life by going to a Kareoke bar: very surreal. A local girl, Lily,  who has befriended the vlounteer house, had rented a room for her 25th birthday. I& ...

Photos (fingers crossed)
Aug 8, 2007 (32 photos)

Fingers crossed that all the Vietnamese people are asleep so there is some free band width (is that the right term?) to load up my pictures... I am OK, despite being a bit off colour yesterday. I crashed into my bike handlebars on Monday, after one of ...

SCUBA time.
Sep 10, 2007 (2 photos)

... (sorry for the inside teacher-speak!) but my Vietnamese isn't good enough for that. I am gradually getting to know Quang Ngai, cycling round more and more little streets and matching them up in my head. Given that I still get lost in Cambridge and ...

Story time
Sep 21, 2007

... while, I thought I should put it in here. I got in the boat on Sunday and went out to sea! I met some people from Quang Ngai, bizarrely. They both work at the Industrial Zone just out of town building an oil refinary and one of them knows a couple of South ...

Train route III
Dec 29, 2006

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The North Coast N Soul Searching
Dec 26, 1999

... I be a big 'Lang Dinh An chicken' and return home and continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. We arrived in Quang Ngai late in the evening. There isn't much more to write. We sat for dinner at the hotel and then went for a walk. ...

Petrovietnam
Mar 20, 2008

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Petrovietnam
Mar 20, 2008

My 3rd overseas working trip...

Family ties
Jun 16, 2009 (9 photos)

... don’t seem to be any rags to riches stories here. Today we went to visit the children and grandchildren of the third son, in Quang Ngai.  They made an amazing meal for us, and the food didn't stop.  Such amazingly generous and sweet people!