Palm Garden Hoi an

... the vegetables as well as discover the use of vegetables in traditional Vietnamese medicine. You will take a trip around the vegetable garden and join the farmers in preparing the land and fertilizing it with seaweed from the local lake. You will take ...

... open onto the bathroom which has a lovely sunken granite bath tub and a floor to ceiling window looking out onto a private courtyard garden. There are more windows next to the vanity and the toilet, also with garden views. The balcony has two lounges and ...

... cement causeway.  A little further past the Japanese tomb is a small village that is built around an enormous vegetable garden.  We rode through the village and watched the people working in the gardens.  They were the most organized and ...

... ! After a good tour we enjoyed a lunch set out by Mrs Phong which was enjoyable. We watched the children play in the garden, climbing the trees to try and get the fruit called Milky breast –at least this is what the Vietnamese to English converts ...

... . Many entry fees and far less entertaining than riding on the motorbikes. We all ate out together that evening at the Tropical Garden restaurant from which I was turned away the previous night because I wasn't a couple on valentine's Day. I could have ...

Still more photos.  What else are you gonna do for 22 days.  We are safely in Hawaii.  From here, we will come back to Oregon for a few days, pick up the dog and the rafts and travel across the US for a couple of months.  Anybody want ...

Looking at earth from space. The hotel is impressive, and reality just outside ...

...  studying Vietnamese.  That is a lot of how we have learned the language, along with help from others.  Hoi An has an amazingly busy and robust local market, selling everything from fresh produce, live fish, plucked chickens and quail ...

... of the vegetables as well as discover the use of vegetables in traditional Vietnamese medicine. You will take a trip around the vegetable garden and join the farmers in preparing the land and fertilizing it with seaweed from the local lake. You will take ...

... headed straight for the beach. The beach had perfect white sand, clean turquoise water and plenty of palm trees for shade. We tried some of the local Hoi an dishes - Cau Lau (doughy flat noodles combined with croutons ,bean sprouts and greens and topped ...

... a fun place called the "DMZ Bar." The next morning we arranged for a car back to Hoi An where we spent two more days at the Palm Garden hotel. We checked out this morning and are now on our way to Quy Nhon, a five hour drive. We are stopping on the way ...

... villa complexes are completed, maring the view and majorly increasing tourism to the area. We arrived at our accommodation, the Betel Garden Homestay, and were immediately invited to join in with a local celebratory lunch for the owner's mother-in-law's ...

... tea time a few of us journeyed nearby to a proper tea house/ cafe housed in a small old French cottage with a splendid garden, nestled among the skinny rectangular four story homes on either side. It offered every kind of tea for every kind of ailment - ...

... to Kimberly, BC before moving to Vietnam) and he showed us around the place. The grounds were one large garden of coconut-bearing palm trees and other jungle foliage. Nestled amongst the flora were small, rustic bamboo beach huts with little else than a ...

... mass grave where they would be made to kneel down. They were then ruthlessly killed using work tools such as hammers or garden hoes. As for small children and babies, they were apparently often killed by picking them up by their legs and swinging their ...

... 'Vegas' strip of restaurants on the cliffside overlooking the beach. Helen was staying at a chilled place called Shiva Garden near another guesthouse/ restaurant called Johnny Cool with a good garden space. Mahashivaratri Festival or the 'The ...

... ; I also saw a Vice President's Reception Room, a big conference room and some sleeping and dining areas around a second-floor garden (where some elephant feet were displayed).  On the third floor, there's a First Lady's Reception Room, a library, a ...

... when we will be told to hold our hands like in school. In the complex, there is also Presidential Palace, his house, a pagoda and garden with small house and lake. It was quite nice. Afterward, we went for a walk around West Lake, there were some nasty ...

... my bungalow was the furthest from the beach I could still see it and it had a great view of the palm fronds in the surrounding garden. I walked down the beach with great disappointment. Although it was a beautiful beach with hardly a soul on it, it ...

... , dried ginger and sweet puffed rice cakes. A significant amount of shopping was done after the tasting session. Later at a Bonsai garden we were shown a variety of more unusual fruits and were offered longans, rambutans, pomelo as well as the more usual ...