The majority of travelers I had met during my first couple of months on the road who had been to Vietnam were not what you would describe as overly impressed with the place.  Mostly they complained of rip-offs and attitude issues.  Things like changing prices, agreeing to a lower price and changing it back to t...

Salut tout le monde! Je suis arrivee a Hanoi, au Vietnam hier matin. On va rencontrer Nic ce soir et faire un petit bout de chemin avec lui, alors on a decide d'aller dans son hotel. La ville est charmante. L'architecture est tres differente de la Thailande. Les odeurs aussi beaucoup plus agreables jusqu'a present! Il y a des motos partout!!! C'...

The flight the following day was very efficient. The airport is very smart, although I get the idea that it doesn't have a huge amount of people using it. The plane was on time and we had a pretty uneventful flight. As we were arriving in Hanoi after dark, I booked Marc and myself into a hostel (hotel really) which promised a free pick-up. Once ...

Had a lie in and fantastic french bread with butter and jam and a coffee (feels weird doing this in Vietnam but they sell french bread and cakes everywhere). Decide to just wander today so virtually walk through every street in Old Quarter seeing markets, shops selling everything you could ever wish for and some of the more interesting things e....

On our sixth day we decided to head back to Hanoi and try to get there in a single day. This would mean that we had a distance of 370km to cover today, a new record for us and our 125cc Minsk. The journey was long and made longer by the changing weather along our route. At one point we felt pretty lost as we had crossed over the same river more ...

Don't worry mom I'm not in love with a man. Eew! But rather with this country. Today is my second day and I'm already planning my trip back. Everything is so different than China. China schmina! Onwards and upwards {sorry Dennis}. People here are so friendly...I feel instantly at home. Despite its tragic and somewhat gruesome past this is a coun...

We spend a month in Vietnam travelling down to Saigon.

Bonjour a tous, Nous avons passe 3 jours a et autour de Hanoi, en voici ce qui m'a le plus marque, dans un ordre aussi chronologique que possible ;-) Le Viet-Nam, au cours des 60 dernieres annees, a ete un pays souvent ravage par des guerres et des tensions, tant nationales qu'internationales. Les deux plus grandes guerres a avoir afflige le pay...