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Ho Chi Minh .. Saigon, tunnels, the American war and Mr. Bean.

We arrived in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh to people who live outside of the city) after our long, bumpy crowded bus trip from Nha Trang. It was 5:30 in the morning when we arrived and we started off on foot, turning away all the moto drivers towards where we thought the hostel was. Turns out...

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ECRadventure on October 30 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Nha Trang, ... scuba diving and animal horror shows

We arrived in Nha Trang late in the evening and headed right for our hostel, checked into our little room and headed out for a bite to eat after our long, frustrating train ride. We walked around the backpacker area of town, where our hostel was and we knew that we had arrived somewhere we...

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ECRadventure on October 26 from Nha Trang, Vietnam

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Hue ... Rain, more rain and more Moto's!

We arrived in Hue early in the morning, the train ride took almost 12 hours. This train, the SE-1 that leaves every day from HaNoi, to Saigon is a little older and not quite as nice as the train to Sapa. Around 10 at night, just before turning out the lights to go to sleep we spotted a few...

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ECRadventure on October 22 from Hue, Vietnam

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HaNoi .. where are you going? You want moto?

Hanoi! S.E. Asia, we’ve arrived! We landed at the airport, made it through customs without any hassles and even passed the medical thermo-imaging camera. Turns out neither of us has a fever, although there is a chance we’re simply immune to it all and we’re passively spreading it around...

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ECRadventure on October 18 from Hanoi, Vietnam

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The rest of Vietnam

After killing a few days back in Hanoi, & Allan departing, Smalls & I got our overnight sleeper train. We were setting off on our way down the East coast of Vietnam, with our first destination being Danang - a 12hour ride away (Vietnam is bigger than I had expected). The primary purpose of...

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johnnoble on July 24 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Frenzied in Hanoi

We had heard a slew of negative things about visiting Hanoi - "the people are aggressive," "you will get hustled," etc... The Lonely Planet said that scams were common, especially when booking excursions out of the city. We were pleased that during our three days in Hanoi, we found, with an...

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bhkann on July 17 from Hanoi, Vietnam

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Ha Long bay

Through our hostel we arranged a two-day, one-night excursion to Ha Long Bay. Ha Long Bay is in northern Vietnam near the Chinese border. It is a bay dotted with thousands of limestone cliffs. We boarded our boat and set off. The scenery was breathtaking, and, as seems to be the pattern on...

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bhkann on July 17 from Ha Long, Vietnam

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Vietnam

Before we had arrived in Vietnam we had all agreed that we were going to treat ourselves to a really nice hotel - having spent a considerable amount of time over the past couple of weeks either in the jungle, on buses/planes (LOTS of time spent travelling), in shabby guest houses, & all in the...

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johnnoble on July 10 from Hanoi, Vietnam

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Beautiful Ha Long Bay

Halong Bay So we have reached one of the stand out highlights of the trip! Ever since the infamous Top Gear moment of drinking G&T's from a floating village while the sun was setting; we have been looking forward to this! Halong bay is a gorgeous area off the north east coast of Vietnam, it...

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Michael Russell on July 5 from Cat Ba, Vietnam

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