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Travel Blogs from Vietnam, Vietnam
Hoi An - Suit you sir!
This is a top pick! Drop your chopsticks, Hoi an is tourist friendly, perhaps too much. Once we arrived in town we immediately knew we had travelled south, the weather was hot (it's been a while). Hoi An is a UNESCO world heritage sight, on our third day we took ...
Leaving Halong en route to Danang
This is a top pick! ... noodle soup that has all kinds of fresh ingredients. We love Pho and Vietnamese food so I'm confident that this visit in Vietnam will be the culinary highlight of our vacation. After breakfast, we debarked via tender boat and our driver was ...
Cruising Halong Bay
This is a top pick! Instead of joining the rest of the cattle being herded in and out of Hanoi every day to visit the stunning Halong Bay we decided to be a bit adventurous and do it somewhat on our own. So, on Wednesday we took the seemingly confusing but actually seamless ...
Cu Chi Tunnels via Speedboat on the Saigon River
This is a top pick! ... , lists of political sympathizers, and an assassination attempt on Robert McNamara. By 1969, B-52s were freed from bombing North Vietnam and started "carpet bombing" Cu Chi and the rest of the reason called the iron triangle. Ultimately it proved ...
The Heat is on
This is a top pick! ... point) it does also talk about american soldiers also affected by agent orange, and so feels more like a commentary on humanity, than exclusively Vietnam. We decide to try and make our own way, by foot, back to the hotel, and of course get very, very ...
Day 75: Scooter Dodging
This is a top pick! ... looking coffee houses surrounding this area, but today's dinner would be had elsewhere. As I don't have my bootleg photocopied Vietnam LP guidebook beside me, any attempt to remember this restaurant's unpronounceable name will be futile, but this was ...
Soaking It Up In Sapa
This is a top pick! Showerless after three days on the bays we arrived back in Hanoi with half an hour to spare before our next tour started. We ventured out to our favourite New Day Restaurant but it was so busy that after sitting and waiting until our deadline we asked ...
Snip snip, chop chop. (hello chopping)
This is a top pick! ... open way after dark, helping make the narrow quaint streets beautifuly lit. We all agree that Hoi An is already our favourite place in Vietnam. 13/9/2011 We start the day with a four hour bicycle tour around the suburbs of the city. We pass miles of rice ...
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!
This is a top pick! Hoi An is beautiful, no one can really argue with that. The old town is a UNESCO world heritage site and it is full of restored traditional buildings and interesting architecture. It's setting on the Thu Bon river doesn’t hurt as well in ...
Day 77: A Day on the Delta
This is a top pick! Breaking the Saigon stint neatly in two was a short Wednesday foray into the uppermost town on the Mekong Delta. Ideally the delta is explored slowly over 3-4 days but logistics and time were not on our side; we figured one day would be better than ...
Last stop Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... the town and surrounding rice paddies – the perfect place for sunset pictures :) I think we have mixed views about Vietnam. Everything was really enjoyable but nothing really stood out as amazing like it did in Cambodia, except for maybe the ...
Beautiful Halong Bay
This is a top pick! My watch has died. This is a sign. The rest of the trip needs to be more relaxed. Yesterday, we headed for Halong Bay, about three hours outside of Hanoi. A private car out was included in our tour, but were we to do it again, we would forgo the car, ...
Dunes and Nightmares.
This is a top pick! ... what we done day by day as it was a while ago now! The place was full of Russian people as we found out that Vietnam is a holiday place for them like Spain is for us. Lots of seafood restaurants but Elle didn't fancy picking something for its execution ...
Hue - Tomb Raider
This is a top pick! The sleeper bus came to pick us up from Ninh Binh at around 10pm for the long drive to Hue. My heart sank as I stepped onto this rolling prison cell, the realisation dawning on me that I would be sleeping in a bed no bigger than a coffin. Not only that, ...
Hanoi - Mopeds, mopeds, mopeds
This is a top pick! ... teach us how to prepare and cook traditional dishes such as spring rolls, chicken and catfish. You can find Pho everywhere in Vietnam and our hotel offered it for breakfast. It's a sort of noodle soup with chicken or beef served with onions and ...
My Son Ruins
This is a top pick! ... visit. My Son contains anywhere from 25 to 70 buildings (depending who you ask) from the ancient Cham civilization of Vietnam. The Hindu religious complex was built in stages from the 4th to the 13th century and has been designated by UNESCO ...
Bicycles & Mopeds, Shopping in Hoi An Ancient City
This is a top pick! ... to buy Christmas presents here. It seems that a lot of this stuff that we pay American prices for are actually manufactured in Vietnam. So, we're getting the same stuff that we have in the US without paying the prices. I can't mention ...
A Little Time a Hue
This is a top pick! After stopping to enjoy some more beautiful coastal scenery our bus arrived in Hue a little late. We were immediately surprised that despite being only about 150 kms north of Hoi An, this area is much cooler. Cloudy skies and temps in the ...
Backtracking To Paradise
This is a top pick! ... south coast of Vietnam surrounded by white sand beaches with mountains and jungles inland. We were travelling south to north in Vietnam but based on other tourists' advice we decided that we couldn’t miss this spot. It’s dotted ...
How to Make Rice Noodles
This is a top pick! How to Make Rice Noodles: 1. Soak rice in water for 6 hours or overnight. 2. Grind rice into watery flour and tie in bag. 3. Let bag sit and dry for 2 days. 4. Take semi-dried flour block out of bag and boil for 50 min. 5. ...
Vietnam - Overview
This is a top pick! ... Bia Hoi beer! The War is an unforgettable truth, but one the Vietnamese are not keen to dwell on forever. The manner in which the people address this paradox in the 21st century now makes Vietnam such a ...
You'll Never Walk Alone
This is a top pick! ... friendly, kind natured and always smiling and its a nice change from pushy selling we had experienced in other parts of Vietnam. One lady, who says her name is Mong, latches onto Claire. She follows us around town and laughs at everything ...
Cool Riders
This is a top pick! We are all quite sad to leave Hoi An as it would have easily filled another day wioth just wandering around, but nevertheless we have to get going on the 4 hour bus journey to Hue. We stop twice along the way. The first is at Ngu Hanh Son, a ...
Cultured Hue
This is a top pick! We flew to Hue this morning on Vietnam Airlines. The flight felt nicer than all of the US domestic carriers and many international flights I've been on. The flight attendants were friendly and we had a beautiful landing into Hue with rolling hills rising ...
Easy Riding through Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... avoid running into James the horny Brit, so teaming up with Thai the Easy Rider was the perfect way to experience Vietnam first hand. Language lessons at gas stations over green tea. Stupidly sweet sugar cane juice next to old military ...
Voyage to Vietnam
This is a top pick! From Phnom Penh, we booked an 'express boat' to glide down the Mekong River into Vietnam. We were highly entertained by a few older European tourists (mostly French) who all but refused to get on when they saw the boat. This first boat was ...
Hue - Day 19
... , switching between my iPhone and my iPad, but it kept saying "network error". Turns out that Facebook is actually banned in Vietnam, but in the vast majority of the country they managed to get round it by changing the Internet settings so it appears the ...
So cold...
This is a top pick! ... the largest island in Halong Bay. Our mission- a 6km trek through the interior. It started out a bit rough, and then got like a Vietnam war movie. Mud, dense jungle, random holes in the ground, I felt like an US Army Ranger. Luckily, we were dropped off ...
Hanoi
This is a top pick! ... file with our hands at our sides. Heading south we dropped in at the Temple of Literature, the first national university in Vietnam. We dismounted our horses as requested by the inscription on the gate and waltzed on through. This was ...
Halong Bay - Day 17
An early start once again but at least we were in time for breakfast and toast was on the menu, perfect, exactly what I needed. The bus was late and by the time it came, I was starting to panic that it may never arrive and had forgotten us, fortunately ...