City Guides

Too many times watching those skycrapers on TV and two travel guides that I haven't worn yet. Yes, I can explain many excuses to go to NYC but there is just one: I need some rest after my previous heavy-travels and this time with the best company I could ...

... ! All of Canada only 33 million! Unbelievable. City, the areas we have visited so far, is much clean than travel guides say. Tons of monuments, squares, historical buildings, and a whole lot of history. Truely fascinating beyond my words I will ...

... statue in the heavens.  South—The three-dimensional, miniaturized version of the temple shows the levels, which the guides explain.  The importance of family is stressed and is depicted in many of the square's sculptures.  Assembly ...

When you get around city of Saigon(Ho Chi Minh City),it's better off not on foot. Touts, "guides" and motorbike taxis will follow you every few metres or stand in your way, calling "hello!" or "oniisan!("mate/brother!" in Japanese).　It's so ...

... winding, rough trails. Phil was the trail ride leader on Chavez, and I was second on Rainbow. Fred, one of our two tour guides, was a strange but friendly old cowboy. He shared some of his life stories with Phil along the way. Shortly after we began, ...

... of reef - with waves crashing over the reef!  You could see why the cruise ship cancelled the tours.  The snorkeling guides were excellent and very professional too - good safety talk and safe method in the sea.  The snorkeling itself was ...

... We read that we should contact someone named Oscar at Roots restaurant and he would set us up with some of the local guys as our guides.  Arrangements were easy, and we all showed up at Roots at 8am, having been warned to NOT BE LATE!  Or the ...

... of their own history and don't have enough English to answer cultural questions. 9.  The French speaking Vietnamese tour guides always have mush better language comprehension than the English speaking ones, and I understand more of what they are ...

... slippery I had a few slips but Junior was cruising. Had a great night sleep in the hammocks and fantastic dinner thanks to our great guides. Day 2 After checking out our mossie bites We set off on a 4 hour trek and today was a more down hill which I ...

... D.F. only about 3 or 4 hours later than we had hoped. On Mexico City: we had, of course, been terrified of the city, being that all the guides and all the news is DANGER DANGER DANGER. We had decided, though, that it would be worth it to go for ...

... Minh City".   Nous avons été les premiers à descendre du navire.  Derrière une barrière se tenaient plusieurs guides, chacun portant un écriteau avec le nom de leur client.  Nous n'avons eu aucune difficulté à trouver le ...

... single display in the museum, it would take twelve years to get all the way through it!  We started by getting audio guides, which were very helpful since we were not on a tour.  The guides explained the history behind each section of the ...

... out though. We wanted to visit the war museum back in HCMC but unfortunately ran out of time before it closed. Our motorbike guides were very nice and friendly, very different to the north Vietnamese. We went back our guesthouse road which was busy with ...

... were everywhere; there were people with a rack, which was nearly as tall as them filled with copied books - mainly Lonely Planet guides. The quality was fine for our needs but the photos were usually poor. Someone told us we'd be able to buy these books ...

... post, but apparently our trip is 'off the beaten track' compared to the usual tour groups, with a smaller group, friendlier guides, a bit of biking, staying with a local family, a few meals included etc. We'll soon find out, so fingers ...

... are a long white shirt / robe type of thing. Their hair is also long. They come to get a pack of biscuits from the guides! We pack up everything and head off. I try the boots today but make slow progress as it hurts the heel going uphill. Downhill is ...

... cheeping noises. We also saw toucans, trojans, mot mots and many other kinds of birds that we need to identify from the field guides. I was transfixed by some of the weird spiky and humpy trunks we saw. One we could see had little wood off-shoots ...

... as large as thirty people. The guide seemed genuine person and was not pushy, which we both liked and agreed to join the group. Guides name is Castro and only today I know how lucky we were to have him as our guide. We arranged to meet him ...

... hop of nature of the tours we ended up taking a few different buses which meant we got to listen to several different tour guides which was good as each of them gave different bits of information about the various sights, including one lady who came to ...

... plazas with a nice sea breeze.....We had lunch in a nice authentic cafe. We were lucky enough to bump into two local tourist guides wondering around and they offered to take us on a free walking tour of the sites of interest with fully history...So, we ...

... fifth, and the only quiet time was between 2am and 5:30am!)   We took a few tours - really cheap - with the hostel guides. First day just went for a look around the zocalo, saw heaps of indigenous people in full traditional dress either dancing or ...