TRAVELERS' TIPS 1. GENERAL NOTE 1.1. Weather Expected temperature and weather in locations in your itinerary Hanoi - Halong: Sunny and hot: 22 -30oC Hue - Hoian: Sunny and hot: 24 -35oC Saigon -Mekong: Sunny and hot: 23- 34oC Seam Reap - Phnom Penh: Sunny and hot: 23- 34oC 1.2. Local flight schedule could be changed at short notice. This is beyo...

Welcome to Hanoi, the capital of the Social Republic of Viet Nam. We expected the same atmosphere we had experienced in other Asian countries, but nope - very positively surprised. Modern new cars, huge signs of advertising everywhere, modern bridges and streets are our first impression as we drive from the airport into the city. ...

Det blir inget mer arbete har i Vietnam. Istallet har jag nu ledigt en vecka innan det pa torsdag ar dags for hemfard. Och med ledigt menar jag nu ledigt pa riktigt, utan att leva i forvissningen att det kanske blir ngt imorgon, eller nasta vecka. Ja, jag har kommit fram till en hel del angaende den har typen av arbete. Ni som ar intresserade la...

Going to try to make this quick since internet costs so much over here in Laos. I forgot to mention my hair wash in Sapa before.  Two bucks got me a quick massage and a deep wash for the locks, which is great since self-washes are few and far between.  I caught a ride, with incident of course, down to Lao Cai Friday night.  I...

we think our bus forgot about us leaving hue to hanoi, because usually with an equal amount of tourists and vietnamese people, we ended the last people on the bus with all vietnamese people.  not that that was a problem, the problem was we got the last seats on the bus, and had a very long uncomfortable ride with the wheel well under our le...

I didn't know much about Vietnam before arriving.  I, like every product of post war America, have images in my head from movies, news footage, and that vivid photo of children running naked from the jungle with their skin melting away.  Just the name of the country - Vietnam - brings forth an ominous feeling with nothing attached to i...

Well hello, hello! here we are for another installment only this one doesnt involve motorcycles...what a nice change... So we went to Da nang where we spent 5 days in the Quang Tri province meeting patients who have had their sight restored thanks to The Fred Hollows Foundation. It was a bit of a different experience to when I did it in Cambodia...

Our trip to the airport in Hue was interesting. Along the dual carriageway we were lined up for a head on with a moped swerving all over the place. At the last minute it moved and caused our driver to jump out and vent a bit of rage - the moped driver was oblivious - drunk we think! Our flight to Hanoi was fine and it was reassuring to hear a pa...

Hallo liebe Freunde der leichten Unterhaltung, hier ist sie wieder, nach wohlverdienter Pause- Eure Stimme aus dem Osten. 1 Monat nix getippt. Mit gutem Grund: 5 Laender in 5 Wochen, da kommt keine Langweile auf. Was war los? In Hanoi esrtmal sich durch die knatternden Motobike/Cyclon Lawine von einer Strassenseite auf die andere geschafft. Das ...

We arrived in Hanoi at 5 am on a sleeper train. Our wakeup call was some loud vietnamese pop song over the intercom system, kinda catchy once your brain has turned on. Hanoi is 3.2 million people, and 1.5 million motorcycles! Although at 5 am when we arrived most of them were just starting to rise. We found 2 motorcycles to take us to the guesth...