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Dong Ha
Travel Blogs from Dong Ha, Vietnam
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Quang Tri, the DMZ and nearby Khe San
... is a national hero. Once freed from centuries of Chinese, then Japanese, French and then American occupation and left to itself, Vietnam has flourished. Traveling here is so bitter sweet for us. We love Vietnam, but are ashamed and hate what America did ...
Riding on Motorbikes with Boys
... ride into Tibet and we arrived feeling almost refreshed having slept the entire ride sitting up. Going against the entire tourism industry in Vietnam, we had the bus driver drop us off at DongHa, right in the middle of the former DMZ, to let us explore ...
Back on the Bus
... ordinance) from war torn Asia. I look at the pictures of them working side by side with villages from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam; lifting 500 pound bombs; brushing away dirt on buried rockets; carefully sweeping a narrow strip of land inch by inch with ...
Dong Ha
Arrived in Dong Ha at around 5 30am, to find that half the hotels wanted nothing to do with us at that hour in the morning so ended up having to wait around feeling extremely tired from a pretty bumpy 12 hour bus journey. After looking around for the dmz ...
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"
... a couple of dollars.. squeezed in the back we chopped through the rain and made our way through the towns and villages heading east towards Dong Ha. The book says there's not much to see here, but it was home to the Americans in the Vietnam (if ...
Freedom riding the Ho Chi Minh Trail
... a very clean cut college guy from New York who arrived in a Mercedes van. I can't help but wonder how Americans feel visiting Vietnam, maybe they have family who served or died here...I guess its kind of the same as being British in a lot of countries, ...
Dong Ha fin du Vietnam
Salut a tous!!! Enfin nous avons trouves une famille super sympa au vietnam (Dong ha) pour notre derniere soiree!!! Une lueur d espoir, hors des sentiers touristiques. Les parents ont combattu pendant la guerre du Vietnam. Le pere parlait anglais. C etait ...
Freed Fire Zone
Went on a tour of sites around the DMZ: Tunnels, bridges, outposts and trails. Led by a former soldier of the South Vietnamese ...
Ausflug in die Vergangenheit.....
... Früh geht es schon los. Der erste Programmpunkt ist die Stadt Dong Ha, ca. 70km nördlich von Hue. Dong Ha war während des Vietnam Krieges die am nördlichsten gelegene Stadt in Südvietnam. Sie diente den US Marines als wichtiger Beobachtungsposten in ...
Motorbike tour from Hue to Hoi An!
... . Quy was very knowledgable about everything, and it was obviously a topic close to his heart as his dad had fought for North Vietnam. Outside the museum there are old and massive bomb shells and an original american bunker. But the best was the chinook ...
Back to Vietnam
... his mate to bring round another motorbike and they took us for a tour of the demilitarised zone. At this time of year, January, Northern Vietnam is cold and wet. This was the first time on the trip that weather had been a problem and we weren't prepared. ...
DMZ Zone
... on what happened. RECOMMENDATION: Rent a motorbike and visit the Vin Moc tunnels independently. Such a fun ride out there. From Dong Ha, head north on the highway and take a right, right after the bridge. You then ride out on this narrow ...
DMZ Tour und die Vinh Moc Tunnel
Die DMZ ist eine militaerische Zone waehrend des Vietnamkrieges, welche die damalige Grenze zwische Nord- und Suedvietnam bildete und wo einige der blutigsten und verbittertsten Schlachten des Krieges stattgefunden haben. Wir haben uns dort einige ...
DMZ - Khe Sanh
... norteamericanos que pobladores locales. Ahí estaba el grueso de las fuerzas así como el Estado Mayor con coroneles, generales y todo el bombo. Desde Dong Ha salía la ruta 9 que corre de este a oeste y llega a Laos, que era el lugar por el que primero ...
DMZ - cuevas
... que se ser un asesino serial con permiso, es ser además un atrevido. Esa fue la última parada del día, de ahí volvimos a Dong Ha antes de volver a Hue. La experiencia de ese día en Vietnam fue una de las más fuertes en el viaje, comparable al ...
fantastic sights, cute children and great markets
We head south through Dong Hoi headed for Hue. The road scene is one totally fabulous wonderful sight after another. The roads are very good with great shoulders. Most of the traffic is truck traffic with scooters and bicycles on the shoulders.There are ...
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