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Thursday, 11 Jun 2009 | Views [127]
Following the tour crowd off the bus from Halong Bay lead us to the Blue Star Hotel on Bat Dan Street. They tried to give us a really pokey windowless room for $12 but on declining a much better room with Air Con and wifi became available for the ... Read more >
Tags: heatwave, fan, power cut, movie, moped tour, mausoleum, barber, guard, history
Monday, 8 Jun 2009 | Views [88]
We didn't get much sleep due to the generator but we got enough. It turned out that the $65 couple's AC didn't work anyway. After a simple breakfast we stopped for 10 minutes to allow those who wanted to jump off and have a swim. The American and English ... Read more >
Tags: singing, bribery
Sunday, 7 Jun 2009 | Views [175]
Day two of the Halong bay tour started surprisingly similarly to day one. Claire was in the shower when the phone rang. The voice said ”Finish! Leave hotel now!” I looked at my watch: 7.10 and we had been told to meet at 7.30. Ignoring what had been ... Read more >
Tags: tour, island, trekking, island, beach, boat, canoe
Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 | Views [144]
It was an inauspicious start to the trip. We had slept through the alarm and were awoken by a heavy thumping on the paper thin bedroom door. The thoughtful receptionist had given us a 20 minute headstart before the promised air conditioned minivan ... Read more >
Tags: tour, island, boat, mate, cave, passport, karaoke
Friday, 5 Jun 2009 | Views [153]
The
first impressions of Hanoi in the taxi were that of a French city. It
was after all the colonial capital of French Indochina so it
shouldn't have been too surprising to be passing through ... Read more >
Tags: city, moped
Wednesday, 3 Jun 2009 | Views [155]
It
was only a four hour journey to Hue from Hoi An but we still had the
bizarre “sleeping bus” to semi-horizontally not sleep in for
the journey. We allowed ourselves to be taken to the suggested
guesthouse ... Read more >
Tags: hangover, citadel, history, culture
Sunday, 31 May 2009 | Views [185]
We
lucked out with the bus to Hoi An – it was quite a bit more modern
and seemed to have been designed with passengers in mind unlike its
previous incarnations. This time there was a space for your bag
rather ... Read more >
Tags: tailor, beach, bike
Thursday, 28 May 2009 | Views [428] | Video
We
had decided to do an island tour from Nha Trang - the punters on the boat were an
eclectic mix of English gap year types, Filipino engineers working on
the soon to open Nha Trang Marriot and a few locals ... Read more >
Tags: beach, boat, bar, island
Monday, 25 May 2009 | Views [211] | Comments [5]
As
usual, the bus was late. After half an hour of waiting patiently in
the travel agency we went across the road for some beers, their
arrival, of course coinciding with that of the sleeping bus to Nha
Trang, ... Read more >
Tags: beach, omelette, scam, casino
Friday, 22 May 2009 | Views [338] | Video
Crowds of overpriced baguette-wielding hawkers thronged around the bus as the rucksacks were crammed into its belly. They had a captive market and knew it – expensive la vache qui rit baguettes for breakfast it was then. The return trip to Phnom ... Read more >
Tags: moped, history, tunnel, religion, temple, crash, home
