Ngoc Lan Hotel

... sun from hoi An has not followed us to the mountains but at least its dry and the temperature is bareable. Booking.com error? Our Hotel the Ngoc Lan is located a 5 min walk from the bus drop off on D Nguyen Chi Thanh, we get to reception and find out why ...

... i've said this before but business is done over drinks instead of lunches and what not.  After the festivities were over in the hotel reception area we all decided to walk down to a club and have some more drinks there.  Kind of fun, a lot of ...

... was in their store.  I ended up buying a few little things and for that the girls ended up giving us a ride back to the hotel on their scooters.       We only had about an hour and 15 before the bus was to leave, so it was ...

... Quy but this is reflected in the price, we had 4 dishes and 3 bottles of Saigon beer for 186,000 dong (£6). Straight back to the Hotel afterwards as we have a taxi booked for 7am to take us to the airport for our flight down to Ho Chi Minh City, or ...

... we decide to visit after breakfast. Getting there is easy as we find 5 or 6 smiley taxi drivers all lined up outside our Hotel to take us around! We were hoping to find the famous Easy Riders to trot us around with their motorbikes but decided to leave ...

... .  Anywho, yesterday was another clinic day.      Started out the morning early again b/c we were leaving the hotel at 6 30.  It was another hour and a half bus ride to the place where we were setting up for clinic.  I ...

... clean - and is most famous for the tonnes of flowers the people produce and transport throughout Viet Nam. My view from the hotel was of a lake, a big roundabout and of flowers. A short walk down the street was the flower market, and lining every balcony ...

... it was on early mornings before we needed to be anywhere. Everywhere you go the rooms are mostly very similar, and on par with a hotel room really.  Ho Chi Minh was one of our favourite places so far. There is plenty to see and do, most notably the ...

... like the northwest.  Cool and not humid.  We ended up eating at a Pizza place just across the street from our hotel and had a few beers.  Everything is extremely cheap here away from the tourist area.  Beers for at the most $1.  ...

... ? We kind of thought no, so I began packing our bags while Mike went down to see if there was a room available at a hotel a couple of doors down. When he got downstairs, the furious girl’s brother was there – the guy that we had originally ...

... from Hanoi pass through.  As it's low season we were lucky enough to bag a $6 dollar room on the 4th floor of a sea front hotel with floor to ceiling windows and an amazing view out over the bay.  In the high season these rooms go for as much as ...

... - the Hang Gnoc - in the middle of the old quarter. It's a great location, and turns out to be a wonderful little charming hotel. It's a 3-star (how déclassé) but it's exactly what we want. In all seriousness, it feels much more like how we're used to ...

... of it sitting in the cabin, sucking fresh air from a busted window and wrapped in the blanket I had smuggled from the hotel. Maybe it was because of the weather and visibility, or the expectations developed from seeing Apocalypse Now, but the karst ...

... de Bonne Esperance. Y'a la route de Jerusalem à la mer morte. Et puis maintenant je peux dire qu'il y a la route entre Ngoc Hoi et Phuoc Son... Poulalalalalalalalalalala. Jamais vu autant de forêt, de vallées vertes, puis de pure jungle, puis de forêt ...

On an "official" Kangaroo Cafe tour to Ha Long Bay, three days/two nights, we stayed on the boat the first night, which was relaxing and fun. From the boat we got a look at the spectacular Ha Long Bay scenery. The next night we stayed on Cat Ba island, ...