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Travel Journals: Hanoi, Vietnam


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adventuring

I'm in Nepal - it's AWESOME Pokhara was such a weclome relief. india was amazing, inspiring, spiritual, challening, and sometimes hard work. The noise, smell, amount of people... after 3 months it was starting to get to me. We couldn't get the b...

Member: Faye
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South-East Asia 2006

around town did lonley planet walk up to no 10...

Member: samantha
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OCEP Vietnam 2006

Well our grand plans for a nice two-day cruise of Halong bay were buggered up by the typhoon that conveniently hit the bay on Friday. We'd booked the tour through one of the many travel agents here so we decided to just change to two one-day tours. Fir...

Member: Shalini
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South East Asia, New Zealand & Japan 2004-5

Check out the blog and archives December 2004 and January 2005 ;o) http://lunamodule.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_lunamodule_archive.html...

Member: Luna
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S.E ASIA 2006

We had a little less than a week to fill in before meeting Chris (Andrews older brother)in Laos so decided to spend it on yet another tropical island! We didn't have enough time or funds to get down to the desired southern Thailand islands so we settle...

Member: Andrew
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Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Thailand

Travel using public transport...

Member: Gerhard
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RTW with Steph and Dion

Written by Dion August 11-12, 2006 We decided to spend a couple of days in Uruguay, so we boarded the 9:00AM Buquebus ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay on Friday morning. The ferry itself was quite nice and the rid...

Member: Dion & Steph
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Vietnam

"The bees," our guide announced, indicating the hive in front of us, "are tourist-friendly, just like the Vietnamese people." Tang smiled, trying to assure us that we could hold the hive for photos. I was delighted at the unintentio...

Member: Dave and Hayley
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Our introduction to Vietnam

Here it is!! We'll obviously we arrived it was a long flight and thankfully “yes” Dan was at the airport to greet us, the weary yet excited travelers - so bring on the adventures. Our 1st day: To start I was almost electrocuted by the precariou...

Member: Jennifer
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South East Asia 2007...

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Member: Becci
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Europe and Asia Extravaganza 2006

Hi! I have skipped over this entry temporarily. I have someone anxiously waiting on news about Ireland. I will come back to it as soon as I can. Best wishes from Yangshuo, China, Tiff...

Member: Tiffany
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2003 was good

March 8, 8:44 pm Ho Chi Minh City: Park View Hotel Saigon is by far the most congested and unorganized cities I have ever seen or heard about. It is unreal. There appears to be no traffic laws whatsoever; everyone simply drives wherever they please. ...

Member: Dave
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Vietnam

If I had to summarise in one word, Dalat is cold, not rainy cold like Hue but actually wearing all the layers you packed cold! The locals are totally OTT though, I actually saw a poor kid wearing a snood! They must really feel it because they're wrappe...

Member: Emma
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VIETNAM

Saigon: probably our favourite place in Vietnam. We met some really nice local people - among them were little Lynn and her even littler brother - street' kids - who we met on a nightly basis for an impromtu game or fifty of 'paper, scissors, stone'. ...

Member: daveandmonaregone
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Southeast Asia

Phnom Penh Revisited We had a conversation with a very well traveled gentlemen who disagreed with my less than favorable opinions of Phnom Penh. He told me that he found the city to be developing nicely. He commented that what ever city you visit fi...

Member: Kelly
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SE Asia 2006/07

After catching the "Scam Bus" from Koh Chang (yes they do exist outide of the Kao San Road) we eventually arrived in Siem Reap having got the bus company to pay for a Taxi from the border at Poipet!!!!. We travelled all the way from Koh Ch...

Member: Rob
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Vietnam & Laos 2007

May 12, 2007 We had a free day at our leisure in Vang Vieng. For a healthy start to our day we had breakfast at the Organic Farm Cafe... if you want something mulberry, they've got it here! Neither of us had tasted mulberry before and we were afra...

Member: Carla
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China bear rescue

Monday 24th September Early start taxi at 6:30am, bag man of hotel bless sleeps on floor in lobby area, I felt bad as I woke him up on leaving but needed to get out of padlocked door and get passport oh and yeah pay too. Traffic jam on way to airport ...

Member: sarah
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Thailand & Vietnam

17 Oct 06 We've had another action packed day! We both think we might actually be doing too much, though overall we know we have to make the most of our 8 days here in Vietnam. We are loving it here. 8 days really isn't long enough. We booked a ...

Member: Charlotte and Dyce
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Around the world...

Arriving in Dalat was a bit odd as it is right up in the Highlands and is about 10 degrees cooler than we have been used to. We had a great couple of days there. The town is pretty quiet but there are some great waterfalls and lakes in the area around ...

Member: Sarah and Ricky
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Justin's World Tour 2006-2007

Greetings everyone from the heart of the former evil empire. Yes I am still alive...this is a good sign haha. Anyways my god do I ever have alot to talk about. Russia is just incredible, lets just say its the most crooked, culturally intense, beautiful...

Member: Justin
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Chasing Winters aka A Blind Man's Guide To S.E.Asia

So now it’s finally onto Cambodia. A Dutch couple travelling the opposite direction told us to expect a two and a half hour bus trip from where the boat berths. Jason came to the conclusion that we should expect the worst. The worst I’d heard was that ...

Member: lloyd
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skandinavien runt

Filippinerna...

Member: Fredrik
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Our Travels

Left Holland today and arrived in San Francisco. Left for Kauai on the 19th. Spent about 5 nights there, had wonderful time on the many beaches including glass and barking sands beaches as well as driving around in our Mustang convertible. Also star ...

Member: Anoosha and Olaf
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Chris and Lisa World Tour

Follow our travels round the world...

Member: Chris and Lisa
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Vietnam

After what we was told would be a 4 hour journey and ended up at 6 we arrived in Ho Chi Minh city or Saigon, to be met by a man chasing another one down the street with a meat cleaver, thinking oh my god we quickly found a gusethouse. HCMC is like t...

Member: JasonandCharlotte
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Vietnam

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Member: Kristian
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Southeast Asia 2006/07

Well after arriving from the so clean city of Singapore, I quickly made my way to the southern bus station direct from the airport. I caught a bus to Damnoen Saduak and the following morning booked out a boat from a nice man Aree (081 9415952). That...

Member: Allan
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South East Asia 2006

Okay, Well we made it. After all the fuss the bus wasnt too bad. We arrived at the Vietnam-Laos border around 5am and had to wait for teh border guards to open it up at 7am. However that gave us a chance to watch teh sunrise in the mountains which w...

Member: Andrew
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Sarah's big adventure

Having finished with Ayutthaya, we arrived in Chiang Mai last week, and have been staying in an amazingly clean guesthouse that's only 190 Baht per night (about 3 pounds) so we're rather pleased with that. It's a fair bit cooler up here as well, so we...

Member: Sarah
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