Sinh Cafe

This travelogue is from my honeymoon trip I took to Vietnam in May 2001. We flew into Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) and trek'ed our way up to Hanoi to fly home. For us there is a before and an after Vietnam... With two weeks only we didn't finish our trip... ...

... ! You quickly get used to the traffic, though. One of my favorite pastimes has always been people-watching from the safety of a cafe. This took on a extra dimension when I got to enjoy spotting the newbie tourists trying to cross the road, hesitating, ...

... is the Court House and various other places.  For the most part, time in Saigon consist of just hanging:  Drinking Cafe' (coffee), you don't really have to drink coffee but thats what they call just going to a shop and hanging out,  ...

... by a bottle of red wine (50,000VND) some beers (20,000VND) and a pack of cards, good times :D Day 3: We headed down to The Sinh Cafe to book our bus to Hoi Chi Minh for the next day, grabbed some food and headed back to our hut where we had hired out a ...

... we get further into town and into the backpacker zones, it seems to gain a little more character. we are dropped off at the sinh cafe, where hundreds more touts swarm on us for our business, meaning we end up sheltering from them within the doorway of the ...

... were served what I believe to be the worst lunch we have had on this entire trip (very poor impression of Vietnamese cuisine - Sinh Cafe should be ashamed of themselves!) We then went to watch people feeding the crocodiles bred on the island for food and ...

... I complained about the mosquitos and booger on the comforter at FCC? Oh, if this were only like the FCC, I'd be soooooooo happy. Sinh cafe is truly the backpacker's travel agency. Let's just say that I've had more mosquito bites here in the last few ...

... shaved, and straight out again to purchase bus tickets from Sinh to go to Phnom Penh, Cambodia the next day. We stayed at Sinh Cafe to meet Jess, K's friend from her South America trip earlier this year. Both she and her travel companion, Bo, proved to ...

... taxi arrived at 7.30am (to take us to where the bus was leaving from...just around the corner!); and we weren't going with 'Sinh Cafe' as we'd been made to believe, instead looking after us would be 'Vietnam Open Tour'. We were supposed to be travelling ...

... After having another pho hoa breakfast, we went around and tried asking other travel agencies in the areas and we found this agency called Sinh Café Travel with address at 28 Bat Dan Street. There were a lot of Sinh Café Travel agency in the area and ...

... tour company, the Sinh Café (now actually called The Sinh Tourist) before. Well, in Hanoi, we literally saw at least fifteen Sinh Cafes – no exaggeration. In one tiny street alone, where one of the two real ones is located, I counted five of them. ...

... to deliver a good product. The number of copycats that now exist in the Old Quarter of Hanoi is crazy. I counted four separate Sinh Cafe stores within the space of a couple of hundred metres on the same street - in two separate locations. I might have ...

... . For example our friend Philly told us that the Sinh Cafe were good for booking tours and bus tickets through. According to the Sinh Cafe website and Lonely Planet there are two Sinh Cafe offices in Hanoi, we counted 16!!!!! We later found out that there ...

... passport-size picture. Money can be changed in an open-air bank, 40 metres to the right just outside the exit of the arrivalhall. Sinh Cafe has an excellent one-day trip to the Mekong Delta. It costs $8 and even includes a packed lunch. Our guide had ...

... at great speed, very impressive! We then all sat down at a little open air restaurant for lunch where a slightly cringey "Welcome Sinh Cafe" sign was hanging up on arrival. We were given vegetable soup and barbecued pork on rice. I only just avoided ...

... aside from the major cities (Hanoi & Saigon) it was my favorite place in Vietnam, and even then I liked it better than Saigon. We hopped on another bus from Sinh Café to Nah Trang. Writing this with hindsight, I wish we hadn’t bothered. ...

... aside from the major cities (Hanoi & Saigon) it was my favorite place in Vietnam, and even then I liked it better than Saigon. We hopped on another bus from Sinh Café to Nah Trang. Writing this with hindsight, I wish we hadn’t bothered. ...

... Busticket und konnten unsere zerflederte Quittung abgeben. Das tolle daran war nur, das Ticket war nicht wie eigentlich gebucht ein 'Sinh Cafe Ticket', sondern ein uns nicht bekanntes 'Camel Travel'!?! Wir dachten uns dann, erstmal in Hoi An ankommen und ...

... not come close to comparing to the cooking class she took in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We booked our onward bus tickets to Hanoi from Sinh Café for 180,000 dong each on an overnight sleeper-style bus.  Hanh Café also offered this trip, but at ...

... now know they will have a steady stream of travelers coming through since so many people totally rely on the guide books.  Despite Sinh Cafe's convenience, try using some of the smaller companies - they may still have good service! :p ...