Asia Ruby Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

... of ended at 3.30am with us commandeering the bar on the top deck and singing Rod Stewart and Oasis at the tops of our voices! The next day was spent on our own private Island called castaway beach...name says it all really! Had a great day relaxing in the sun, snorkeling and playing volleyball. There was a BBQ on the beach, and yes possibly more oasis and rod Stewart a lot later in the evening :)

Other highlights in Hanoi included a trip to a snake ...

... of more upmarket fashion stores. It's only been 11 months since we were here last, but it could've been a couple of years.

Checked into the hotel. It's nice, with free wifi. Thanks to Sandra, Dave, Keiran and Jamie for paying for it. So nice to have a luxurious place to start our trip (it's all downhill from here).

Pretty much hit bed as soon as we got in and got showered. Busy 24 hours. Tomorrow, it all begins.

... bag which she attached to the bike, were soon speeding down Bui Vien to the hotel.

On arrival I checked in then was told to put my luggage with some other bags at the foot of the stairwell. I assumed someone would be bringing it up for me. The woman on reception, the owner, then led me to my room, up and up and up the stairs until we finally emerged on the fifth floor. What a mission. She showed me into the pleasant room, then asked me to wait at the top of the ...

... After his shower, while he was still in his birthday suit, he heard a knock on the door and asked if it was me. A little mumble came back from the other side and he assumed that it was me since i had been gone for a while. So he opened the door... needless to say, he got the shock of his life when he saw the startled face of a young girl and proceeded to bang the door into her face. It was the girl from the hotel, bringing us our clean laundry, she ...

... NZ for dinner. After eggs and coffee in a cafe around the corner for breakfast we tried to plan our next few days in Vietnam. On a stroll around our area we ended up finding some bargains, buying some knock off sunnies, a dvd boxset and some Wii games which in total only came to about NZ$30. At 6pm we went down the road to meet Leath's brother Regan at Cyclo bar. Regan has been working here as an international teacher for a couple of years - we were hoping to get ...

... i Sa Vĩ, nét bút đầu tiên tạo hóa vẽ nên chữ S của VN. Phóng tầm mắt ra xa là đất Trung Quốc.
Khung cảnh thanh bình thật khó để người ta c ...

... com/khach-san.html) Kizhi là một hòn đảo trên hồ Onezh( Onega) tại Karelia, Nga (tọa độ 62°04′vĩ bắc, 35°14′17″kinh đông) rất nổi tiếng với các nhà thờ ...

... prison where they pretty much executed every prisoner that went in there. i don't even want to wright about it so i won't go and check it out.
us lads where all about depressed in the day in phnom penh so at night we would go out have try and have a good time, the bars in phnom penh we found where closed to lakeside then ended up in heart of darkness every night. i pulled an irish girl!!! next to siam reip. x

... spot and told me I had scratched my cornea. Ouch. I tried to tough it out, so we went to the Independence Palace, also known as the Reunification Palace. It is at this site that General Minh of South Vietnam surrendered to the North in 1975. He is reported to have said to a VC soldier, "I have been waiting since early this morning to transfer power to you." The ...

... we had some lunch, and then headed to the market. We were really surprised by the incredible number of knock off items (many of which we bought) for such cheap prices. It was a ton of fun to haggle with the shopkeepers and people in the market.

Afterwards we headed home and got some dinner before retiring for the night, a pretty uneventful day really.

The next day followed a very similar patter to the first ...