Vietnam - Blogabond

Hiking in Rice Fields

Sapa has been an intense and amazing 4 day excursion. I am traveling with Vivian, Jocelyn, Carl and Aaron. Getting to Sapa involves an overnight train from Hanoi. There was excitement right from the start when the train started moving while some passengers were off the train. A brief chase...

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benjgolf on June 17, 2007 from Sa Pa, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Tour de Asia

Honk honk!!

If there's one thing I've noticed since arriving in Vietnam, it's that people like honking! The honk filled cacophony of Hanoi, Sapa, and even the trail through the different villages due to motorbikes has been amazing...and trying on the head. Carl, Joc, Ben, Aaron, and I wrapped up our 3...

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GoBlue on June 17, 2007 from Sa Pa, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Viv's Voyage(s)

Chiang Mai memories...

My fellow travelers have written some great reports about our time in Chiang Mai ... sightseeing, elephant riding, trekking, bamboo rafting, mini-cliff jumping, cooking, eating, lounging at the Jasmine Rice Village, swimming, "Catch Phrase" playing, rock climbing, etc. Here's some pictures to...

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GoBlue on June 17, 2007 from Hanoi, Vietnam

from the travel blog: J-Mac's Junket

Into the Jungle!

T minus two hours to departure for our Sapa trek. After a sweltering overnight train ride during which we all got very little sleep, we arrived safely in Lao Cai (on the Chinese border) and then took a one-hour bus to Sapa. The countryside here is absolutely gorgeous, and I am looking forward to...

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GoBlue on June 14, 2007 from Sa Pa, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Joc's Journeys

Good Morning Vietnam!

After an incredible week in Thailand, good people, good food, good countryside, we have landed in Vietnam . . . To give you a sense of how I feel about the place so far, I'm going to rank order the cities I have visited so far: 1. Sydney 2. Chiang Mai 3. Melbourne 4....

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GoBlue on June 14, 2007 from Hanoi, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Carl's Circuit

The Cost of Ignorance

So far, the running tally on the cost of ignorance (defined as the amount of additional money we've spent because we didn't know better) is somewhere around $75. The first major incident was a few weeks ago in Bali, when a taxi driver accepted 3 thousand-rupiah notes from Carl, who thought they...

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GoBlue on June 13, 2007 from Hanoi, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Joc's Journeys

Arriving to Viet Nam!!

סין צ'או (שלום בויאטנמית) לכולם! החל מאתמול אנחנו רשמית בויאטנם.לפני יומיים עזבנו את ואנג-ויאנג אחרי הרבה פיצות ושידורים חוזרים של "חברים" ושיט אבובים מהנה במורד הנהר. העברנו חצי יום בויאנטיין(הבירה של לאוס) בבית מלון מאוד נחמד ואתמול בבוקר המראנו לויאטנם. החלטנו לקחת טיסה ולא ליסוע 24 שעות...

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Omri Har-Shemesh on June 4, 2007 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Traveling to Thailand (and Laos, and Cambodia, and Vietnam)

Escape from the city!

Hello again everyone! Firstly we would just like to thank all the people that have commented on our Blog, it's always lovely to get your messages. Keep 'em coming! Well, after our Mekong Delta adventure we decided that we needed a well deserved rest, so Thursday was spent having a facial at one...

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corinne_sarah on February 5, 2007 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Thirteen weeks

Cruising on the Mekong Delta

It's been a lovely few days here in Vietnam. After the excitement of the Cu chi tunnels we decided to have a chillout day on Sunday and went for a walk around the city to see a few sights, we went to see the Post Office (doesn't sound exciting but was a very beautiful building), the big statue...

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corinne_sarah on January 31, 2007 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Thirteen weeks

Temples and Tunnels

The day after the Rickshaw rollercoaster we decided to give ourselves a day off and went to the Statravel office to book a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels, an underground network of tunnels which the Viet Cong used to sneak up on the US soldiers, and the Cao Dai Temple, which is the largest in...

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corinne_sarah on January 27, 2007 from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

from the travel blog: Thirteen weeks

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