Quy Nhon, Vietnam Travel Blogs

The few days at Qui Nhon...
Sep 26, 2009

... ,000 in my hand, we settled at 60,000 Dong. The bus was already full, but there isn’t such thing as a full bus in Vietnam. I piled in the back with a middle aged woman half way on my lap, an older lady against the window on my right, a middle aged ...

Quy Nhon
Mar 30, 2008 (15 photos)

... fishing village that is not really on the tourist map yet, but may soon be. We stayed four nights about 15 minutes south of Quy Nhon in a beachfront hotel called Life Resort. It was quite nice and we met some interesting folk there. It was really a rest ...

Barbara the Shining Light of Quy Nhon
May 20, 2009 (27 photos)

Our second stop on the journey to Nha Trang was at a small coastal town called Quy Nhon (pronounced Wee Non). We had read in the Lonely Planet that a small backpacker haven could be found in the shape of a cafe run by a Kiwi woman called Barbara. All ...

Leo thật cao, đi thật xa
Nov 15, 2009

... 273;ến bằng tour du lịch “bụi”. Bạn Hồng Anh (Khoa Ngoại ngữ, ĐH Quy Nhơn) đ� c�ng 4 bạn trong lớp thiết kế tour du lịch “l�n rừng, xuố ...

Same same but different Vietnam
Dec 13, 2009 (34 photos)

... do than lie around the pool. If you want more to do I suggest going to Nha Trang. Well this evening we are heading off to Ho Chi Minh by train arriving tomorrow morning early for our last days in Vietnam. Cheers, Ivo & Annemieke 

Quy Nhon
Dec 16, 2007 (63 photos)

Quy Nhon in Vietnam

Quy Nhon
Mar 12, 2009 (4 photos)

... ; Following our performances we were invited over to one table (like the stars that we are) and bought drinks by a prominent Quy Nhon business man. After more drinks we were invited on an all expenses paid tour of the town the next day with ...

Quy Nhon
Jul 7, 2009 (38 photos)

Da haben wir ein kleines Paradis entdeckt :-) Quy Nhon liegt wie Nha Trang an der Kueste des chinesischen Meeres, ist aber noch voellig ohne Tourismus. Kilometerlange einsame Straende, schoene Promenanden und ueberall hat es Fischerboote. Die meisten ...

LEAVING ONE MORE COASTAL TOWN
May 17, 2008

... view the town by bike and still leave time for a Cham tower. The Cham people lived for a thousand years in the stretch of Vietnam that extends from Da Nang in the north to just short of Saigon in the south. In the 12th century they got displaced and ...

Quy Nhơn - Th�nh Phố Biển
Nov 15, 2009 (1 photos)

... ;c gi�p huyện Tuy Phước v� huyện Ph� C�t, ph�a nam gi�p thi xa S�ng Cầu của tỉnh Ph� Y�n. Quy Nhơn nằm trong phạm vi tọa độ từ 13�36' đến 13�54' vĩ Bắc, từ ...

Life Resort
Sep 20, 2007 (4 photos)

Our next stop was Quy Nhon which is a quiet coastal town. It wasn't very exciting but it was very beautiful.

The Adventures of the Quy Nhon Xe Om
Dec 8, 2007 (1 photos)

... open up and get us a room. We slept in a little late this morning, and spent today walking about with another British couple. Quy Nhon is not really a pretty town, but it is fairly interesting for a couple of days I guess. Its more of a working ...

Poo on the beach and shaking bunk beds
May 24, 2009

... tell me how long the ride will take?  It's not like I've got a choice. Grrrr. I stayed in my first dorm of Vietnam and other than the story to come later the place was really nice.  A bit too much on the backpacker fare, not everyone has a ...

Beautiful but boring!
Oct 7, 2008

... we were getting pretty fed up with bus journeys so we decided to break up the trip to Hoi An with a stop in Quy Nhon. Quy Nhon is apparently an up and coming beach destination and although the beach did look quite stunning it is advised that people don't ...

"But no matter, the road is life." - Kerouac
Sep 26, 2009

The rain died down, so I took a stroll out to the sea wall. As I watched the waves curl in and come crashing to the sand I had another one of those moments. One of those moments where you stop for a second and think about where you’re at, ...

Wee yon sucks!
Jul 23, 2009 (7 photos)

Our bus abandoned us in a petrol station somewhere out of Quy Nhon. We managed to negotiate a moto-taxi each. Normally they put your backpack in front of them, between their legs and resting on the handle bars, but the bikes seemed smaller, or our packs ...

Day 42 - Train pour Saigon / Train trip to Saigon
Nov 3, 2009

Dans le train pour Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Depart 13h20 Arrivee a Quy Nhon : 18h20, puis 14 heures d'attentes a cette station, le temps aux ouvriers de reparer les rails abbimees apres les inondations dues au typhon. Au matin, les reparations etant trop ...

Cycle ride
May 23, 2008 (5 photos)

Quiet and nice place

Back to Vietnam
Apr 20, 2009

wip

Life Resort
Sep 19, 2007 (12 photos)

Our next stop is Quy Nhon, a quiet coastal town. Our hotel in Hoi An organized for someone to drive us there. It was as cheap to do it this way as it is to go on the train so we took advantage of the door to door service. The 5 hour journey was ...

Quy Nhon
Jun 11, 2007 (56 photos)

... . In seven months here, I've only seen three ballet-type performances.  Perhaps the most impressive was at the Quy Nhon school.  I can easily appreciate the costumes, music, choreography and story-telling.  For me, ballet is a mood- ...

a palace...
Apr 27, 2009

hello today we are staying in a palace. not a literal palace but the most beautiful room you will get for 200,000 dong ($12.5) which is so awesome. the guide book says that all the rooms are different so if anyone is searching its name right now we are ...

Continuing North
Apr 30, 2009

Wanted to break long bus trip to Hoi An so stayed a few days here on coast. Met German Chief Engineer on a container ship Interestig conversatio. Dinner with three young German men. Good time. Beach nothing special.

Nighmare journey, beautiful place
Sep 15, 2009 (53 photos)

We tend to either have a really easy, smooth journey between places or a complete nightmare! Getting to Quy Nhon was definitely the second of the two! We managed to get a bus ticket from Hoi An to Quy Nhon fairly easily but were, unfortunately, turfed off ...

Kiwi barb
Aug 3, 2007

...  did not help my mood at all.  Life just isn't fair sometimes. Again with the digressing.. we arrived in Quy Nhon on a miserable night, pissing down rain with a driver that didn't understand English but assured us he know where we wanted ...

Born to be wild!
May 9, 2009 (4 photos)

... popular (and hence more heavily touted!) beaches of Mui Ne and Na Trang a miss and hit this coast side town instead. Quy Nhon (pronounced wee yawn), experiences little tourist traffic, which was evident from when we landed. We were definitely a novelty to ...

Qui Nhon
Mar 15, 2008

Quy Nhon

Day 3
Jun 17, 2008

... so we wouldn't have to lug it around vietnam with us.  We will hit up the shops and markets during our last day in vietnam.  It is a free day so we figured it would be better to do most of our shopping then.       ...

Riding The Reunification Express
Apr 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... to visit her mother and 11 brothers and sisters and did I want to come, I said sure. We left Nha Trang for Quy Nhon (pronounced something like "William") on the Reunifcation Express train that runs from Saigon to Hanoi. We arrived after four hours ...

Hell bus
Dec 5, 2007 (1 photos)

... the street there were plenty of rice fields to cover the other favored meal of asians: rice. After four hours we arrived in Quy Nhon, main bus station. Attacked by the usual Xe Om drivers (explanation: motor bike drivers, which want to take you to their ...