Miitary Guesthouse 298 Long Hai

Today it's off to Chua Phap Hoa temple.


Actually it was quite hard to get into, as the gate was padlocked but a monk came and opened it so I could take some photos.

I got to met the head monk who insisted on have a chat with me. Though didn’t ...

Yes, I’ll try pretty much anything once! And it wasn’t so
bad. The snails and sour rice were in a soup that also had tofu, and it all tasted fine. The snails
were a bit tough and chewy, so texture was a little different, but not
bad. And I finally tried mangosteen yesterday! It’s a tropical fruit
that 2 different people on facebook told me to try, and it was good!
I’m not usually a big ...

So we took a day trip to Long Hai with the disciplinary staff at APU. Basically, all the monitors, a few of their family members, Becky and I. To start the morning off we got up and tried to leave at 6 A.M. After a few delays we headed out of town. We arrived and went swimming right away. Of course we wore clothes since we most VN ...

Here we are in beautiful Uncle Ho City. After a much travelled 24 hrs we were very tired and somewhat disorientated... which is funny being in the orient... Anyway.. enough about the geography... Singapore was only a brief stop-over after a rather turbulent flight...We saw lots of beautiful orchids and Koi fish in garden-like settings in Chaingi ...

We took the bus for the coast, hoping to cool down in the waters of the south china sea. When we got there of course it would have been too easy to book into the place they let us off at, so we walked around in the blistering heat and eventually found a nice place. Dropped off our bags and jumped straight into the ocean. God it felt good. That evening we went to a bar down the road and were treated to the most amazing thunder and lightning storm, they gave ...

... upon. We needed an ATM and wanted to find a restaurant that served a meal we'd heard we'd needed to try, a noodle soup with vegetables and beef called Pho, so we set out in search of one. Even after dark, the traffic did not stop. And we had our first experience crossing the streets, which was a good time because it's the least busiest time, but people still manage to come at you from every which way. Becca and Matt held hands, and I gripped Lauren's ...

dopo tanto fiume finalmente siamo tornati a sentire il profumo del mare... non proprio solo il profumo, visto che da queste parti sono famosi per la 'fish sauce', una roba terribile di pesce e crostacei vari stramorti e fermentati, incredibilmente e puzzolentemente uguale a quanto descritto nella guida del pah tak. Mitico pah tak! Ma andiamo con ordine. sveglia alle 4:30 del mattino per il giro in barca. Il tizio che ce l'ha venduto ci aveva assicurato che tutti si svegliano alle 4 in ...

Right so the idea was for me to travel from nah Trng to Saigon, Saigon to Bangkok and then Bangkok to Sydney. NO. what happens now is somewhat different to my plans, it has an x-ray, moped and headache involved!. So i got to the airport in Saigon and thought i better check with the embassy that i have my visa and i am ...

We are now settling in Saigon. There are about 10 million people in the city, with about 2 million motorbikes. We will go shop around next week to buy one, and will send you a picture of it. The friends are really, really nice and hospitable. Hope you'll enjoy these pictures.

... glow stick bracelets out while we were walking and broke them so they would glow - it was amazing to see the reactions of people even in the dark, especially the kids. I put them on their tiny little wrists and they thought they were the coolest things laughing and giggling and running all over to show each other how much cooler theirs was than anothers. I had made some good little friends that night. The dance performance was by the kids in the village that were our age, which ...