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VIETNAM | Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [19]
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 >
VIETNAM | Monday, 11 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [23]
DESPITE THE PERSISTENT DRIZZLE we walked the three miles along the Perfume River to Thien Mu Pagoda, part of the Complex of Hue Monuments. The term “pagoda” is confusing, as is much about this entire UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thien ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Sunday, 10 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [38]
IT’S A LONG WAY FROM SYDNEY TO HUE—nine hours and 4300 miles through four time zones to Saigon another 600 miles to the Imperial City. Fewer than half of the A330’s seats were occupied on the Sydney-Saigon leg so we each had an entire ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Saturday, 9 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 7 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [48]
AS WE CONTINUED OUR SEARCH for the elusive Rock Warbler on Wednesday, we were side-tracked not by the Three Sisters but by three Superb Lyrebirds scratching and pecking in the leaf litter along Cliff Walk Trail. We watched until an irate Kookaburra strafed ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 3 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [54]
IT WAS NICE TO SLEEP IN A BED that wasn’t rocking after nearly three weeks afloat. Chiltern, our final AirBnB in Australia, is a charming cottage surrounded by lush gardens in the beautiful Blue Mountains of New South Wales. It’s spacious ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Friday, 1 Mar 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [36]
THIS WAS OUR THIRD TIME IN HOBART—first in our campervan, the other on a cruise—so we felt justified in just running some errands instead of sightseeing. Connie has been trimming my hair every three weeks or so but her hair was in desperate ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 29 Feb 2024 | By spacemanafrica | Views [62]
Back in the day, it was common, whilst travelling, to write postcards to your friends and family. It was a bit of a chore though, to be honest. Who could be bothered to take time out of their holiday and think of something to write on the back of a postcard? ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 25 Feb 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [40]
WE HAD AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE UPON LEAVING Sydney for Tasmania. The Captain of Majestic Princess had agreed to participate in an anti-pirate exercise with the Australian Navy. Since we had faced a possible pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden a couple ... Read more >