Royal Hotel Tuyen Quang

... and many rice terraces. We did not know how high we were in the mountains as Steve left his GPS on the train...good to say it was recovered and is now back in our possession. We arrived yesterday afternoon at our Vietnamese home stay, there were initial issues with the home we were placed in but our guide was able to resolve. We looked over a stream,there was a couple from Denmark who were vary nice, and the family was nice.Our guide stayed with us, and ...

... Spirit House. This place seemed ok but Eve didn't take a shine to it so we decided to break the habit of our travels in Asia so far and set off to find another hotel. Whilst walking through the narrow streets of Hanoi we were approached by a friendly looking man who said he had a nice hotel to show us. We duly followed him, largely due to the fact that our bags were weighing us down and he offered to carry Eve's. We arrived at the hotel, the City Gate, and were pleased to ...

... train arrived here from Sapa at 5:30 in the morning and our hotel room was not yet ready so we made our way to the lake to watch all the Tai Chi, jogging, aerobics, badminton, fishing, bike riding, weight lifting, and meditating you could imagine. It was like Elgin Street on a Saturday night after a Sens game, except this was at 5:30 AM and the heat was only 32 at this point. We sat there on a concrete park bench, eating our 'petite baguette's' wondering - why ...

Hanoi...je m'en souviens deja moins car nous avons pris du retard dans notre blogue. La ville est superbe et on a mange comme des rois. On s'est meme senti un instant communiste en voyant le corps preserve de Ho Chi Min dans un genre de ...

My journey began from city of Manila. Arrived evening during easter time. We thought shouldnt had any problem for accomodation but we're wrong. The location for hotel and guest houses is the same location so not that hard to look. We asked any hotel that book had been recommeded but all of them seem full. Finally we managed to found one just enough to stay for a day ( our plan is only stay for a day in Manila). Price so high and ...

Nathrang. Trip from Dalat to Nathrang took around 5 or 6 hours ( unfortunately that time the travel agent wasn't very good to organised the bus trip seem so complicated) but managed to get there. Well, this is the story took us few hours then arrived at the city everyone seem tired just wanted off but the bus driver make some arrangement with one of the hotel to drop us there, far outside from the ...

Dalat. It took 6 hours by bus which we arranged from the travel agent. Climate was very pleasant that time it said the temperature always the same all around the year. Not big city so to stay for a two days is enough to see and cover the area. To find the hotel is easy because plenty of them in the same street not need to walk to far. There's lake in the middle of central ...

Everybody should experience "The Minsk Effect". For those of you as ignorant as I was prior to this adventure, a Minsk is a Russian motorbike, built to last but only under protest. It makes a noise like several buses and often refuses to start at all. It needs to be cajoled into running in the morning (much like Pete)- usually by revving the engine resulting in clouds of blue smoke and wildlife scattering for a surrounding kilometre ...

We said goodbye to Adrian and Nicole in Hanoi as they decided to get a flight direct to Hong Kong. Meanwhile we took an overnight train to Sapa - a very comfortable ride in a 4-berth cabin that we shared with some very nice English-speaking Vietnamese tour guides. The train actually goes to Lao Cai, on the Vietnam-Chinese border, so we jumped in a minibus and went a further hour through villages and paddy fields to ...

· Dia 15: HaNoi. Llac Hoan kiem. Pont japones del llac que accedeix al temple de Ngoc Son. Ciutat vella (amb carrers gremials). Pagoda Quan Thanh (al llac Truc Bach). Mausoleu de Ho Chi Minh. Pagoda de Chua Mot Cot. Teatre municipal de water puppets. Temple de la literatura. Pagoda del perfum (Chua huong) ( a 70km). Catedral neogotica de St. Joseph. Mercat Duong Xuan. Pagoda Tran Quoc (al llac Ho Tay). Temple Hai Ba Trung, i ...