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VIETNAM | Sunday, 24 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [5]
LODGING IN VIETNAM’S NATIONAL PARKS has been surprisingly good—certainly an upgrade from Ngoc Linh. Our room in Yok Don National Park had both wifi and air-con, a bed with a sheet and duvet and hot water—all the essentials. Dinner and ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Saturday, 23 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [10]
GREEN HOTEL IN MANG DEN SEEMED LIKE a palace compared to Ngoc Linh. Both Connie and I played catch-up after two nights sans wifi—she was adding to eBird while I tried to update the journal. I won’t be able to accurately account for all the ... Read more >
OMAN | Saturday, 23 Mar 2024 | By krodin | Views [36]
Impressions of Muscat. (FYI - I can't get the photos to load,sorry!)
For years, I have wanted to visit Oman, but the timing was never quite right. This year I decided that waiting any longer to make my way to Australia and New Zealand was nonsense ... Read more >
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VIETNAM | Thursday, 21 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [37]
HOANG GIA TRANG GUEST HOUSE in Ngoc Linh is as low as we can sink, lodging-wise—at least we hope it is. It’s the only game in town and features rock hard beds with a single sheet and blanket in which we wrapped ourselves like human burritos ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [32]
AS WE ASCENDED INTO THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS of Vietnam the quality of our lodging began to decline. We spent Saturday night at the Green Hotel in Khe Sanh, a step below our place in Phong Nha. When I mentioned we were near where for the first half of 1968, ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 17 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [33]
BY THE TIME ANDRE JOINED US for dinner on Friday in Phong Nha, we had already seen 27 species—eight new ones for Connie. While it never actually rained on Thursday, the dense fog and drizzle made photography difficult to impossible. Fortunately, ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Thursday, 14 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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VIETNAM | Thursday, 14 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [31]
WE SPENT THE NIGHT IN DONG HOI after traveling 170 kilometers from Hue. Booking a private car rather than taking a bus assured a timely arrival and gave us a chance to stop and stretch our legs along the way.
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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [43]
WITH ITS ANCIENT FEEL, IT IS EASY to forget that Hue’s Imperial City isn’t a contemporary of Cambodia’s 9 th Century Angkor Wat or Sukhothai in Thailand. The country we know as Vietnam has existed only since 1802, when Gai Long—... Read more >