Six Gun City

... , This is a travel blog for our trip around the world. Starting off in Japan, which will involve snowboarding fresh powder at six resorts and checking out Tokyo and Kyoto, we will then make our way to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, before heading to ...

... ;  We got our shit together, and about two hours later than requested, we left with our guide to head off on a six day hike to the Lost City and back. The Lost City is an ancient ruin rediscovered deep in the jungle only 20 years ago. To get there we ...

... for one small valley it was completely covered with barren mountains. Overall, it was a very interesting place to visit. Carson City - Getting here was an experience - the highway has hairpin turns and 15 percent grades (not for motorhomes). This is the ...

... you are jn New York, walking is the fastest mode of transport and so I suck it up and spend the day exloring the city. I stumbled across this fabulous place called Bryant park, full of locals, it is a christmas market and a outdoor ice rink. Tasted the ...

... the tactics of the VC, many of the prisoners sent here never came back and died horrible deaths. Today HCMC is looking forward, a city trying to pull it's foot from the mire of history to stride into a future of prosperity. There are few reminders of ...

... memory that they have already started two major wars in the twenty first century. Did you know that there are six million motor scooters in Saigon, a city of 10 million people? We do because we saw about half a million when we tried to cross the road ...

... of the details out of this entry. There was just too much going on over the few days we were there. This is a great metaphor for a city so large and all encompassing that there is no way to see it all in one lifetime. However, I have fallen deeply in love ...

... entry points. All in all, I was very impressed by the Vietcong's design and implementation. The next day I left Uncle Ho's city for a 14 hour, no aircon, hell ride through Cambodia to Angkor. All I have to say is that I was very angry the AC ...

Hello from HCM city (as they call in it in the north) or Saigon (as they call it everywhere else) So much for reunification... I spent three days in Nha Trang being a typical tourist, lying on the beach, eating ocean critters, going on boat cruises, ...

... Lao area of District 1 dodging the insane traffic on the streets.  We heard that there are between 3 and 4 million motorcycles in this city and after walking around the streets it is easy to see that this is true.  There seems to be four main ...

... blog again. Rachel: After a long bus journey from Nha Trang on Friday we arrived safely into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon, though many people still call it Saigon). The bus dropped us into the touristy backpacker area, District ...

... for a while Then I tried to get into machine gun bullets. I bought some stock, and sent it through a machine gun into a target range. Then I had no more stock. Six hundred thousand dong down I decide to get out of machine gun bullets. It was a good ride ...

... thought that a few decades after the fall of Saigon, there would be a symbol of America in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City?  I didn't buy anything in Ho Chi Minh City because unlike Bangkok this is all the real deal. These people are rich. Nothing makes ...

... it all back home By Sharon Margolis I'm here with John Sinclair - former manager of Detroit's proto-punk band Motor City 5, cultural revolutionary, artist, original hippie - at the Vox Pop café in Brooklyn, New York.  It's appropriate ...

... beer and tequila and played pool with the local’s.  I won! Once that place had closed we moved back to the Six Gun City – home of the $2 Margarita’s! We spent the rest of the night in there talking to a policeman from Cardiff and ...

... pair of khaki shorts, but pulled out at the last minute (they lied to him about the sizes).  We walked into the Saigon City Center across from the market, and were shocked at what we found.  Ethan Allen, Mango, an Italian furniture store, and a ...

... in HCMC (Saigon)... kinda sad as we have gotten used to our surroundings - we have spent our first six nights in this area (three in the city and three in the Mekong Delta). Everything around our hotel seems familiar and that is both comforting and ...

... in the GM Recording Studios in what was then known as East Detroit (now called Eastpointe), he and an accounting professional from New York City whom we had also engaged to help us, a creep named David Newman (not to be confused with his antithesis, the ...

... find as exciting now as I did when I was ten years old?! Okay, so I have a ‘thing’ for New York City! Actually, I love the United States in its entirety. The people are hospitable, welcoming and friendly. They seem to like us Brits for some ...

... . The higher up you go on the hotel floors the cheaper the rooms. Hence we were on the 7th floor! Saigon is a city that is going through a massive transformation. Huge modern glass buildings are popping up everywhere and the downtown area is full of chic ...

... everything at a shout or starting to empty the bins and mop the floor (and shout) at 5.30am. We came to Mexico City via a six hour bus trip. The landscape is incredible. This is an immense, ancient country so very different from our land of pointy ...