 | Motorbike Madness
2007-07-07, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: mashman | | 23 hours on a bus is never a good idea, as my journey from Vientiane to Hanoi proved. Glumly climbing aboard there was an eerily depressing atmosphere, as if everyone knew what lay ahead. To make ma... |
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 | 2nd attemp
2007-08-03, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. By: TackYoan | | Tomorrow (4Aug), we will try again our trip to Vietnam after we fail our 1st attemp last week (28/Jul)...
Last week, we flew from shanghai to Guangzhou planning to take the VN flight from Guangzhou... |
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 | Leaving Vietnam
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | My last week in Hue was a mixture of excitement to be going home and sadness that I was leaving everyone that I have met there. Especially the kids. I found it really upsetting. I had to say goodbye t... |
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| For Auntie Connie & Rebecca
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hi. thank you or keeping in touch with me on this...i really love when i get guestbook messages from home as its starting to feel like a while since i was at home. i am sure that the baby orphanahe es... |
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| Teaching 14th June
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hey. just though i would write a quick entry as i had a really good day yesterday.... i taught a class of monks at the university last night. it was quite intimidating at first but they were extremely... |
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| Update 9th June
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hey
just thought i would write a little update...i have finished my first full week working. it was pretty tiring so i am glad to have the day off today. i am really exhausted as i have been having... |
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| My Phone Situation...
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | Hey Everyone. Thank you so much for the messages that you have been leaving in my journal guestbook. Im so glad I started it as its by far the easiest way to keep in touch and I love when u leave me m... |
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| Went to the baby orphanage today...
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hey. things have really got a lot better now that i have begun teaching. i have started to see how worthwhile what i am doing really is. and although the accomodation is horrendous i have joined 'la r... |
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| On the road.....
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hi - glad you liked the photos. yeah mum i am tired. shattered actually. its really hard to sleep here at night i think it is about 85 degrees in the room and there is only one really small fan on th... |
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| Arrived in Hue
2007-05-30, Hue, Vietnam. By: vicgordon | | hey. thats me in hue, the city where i have been placed. to be honest i am really struggling. its not at all what i expected...i have been taken off the baby orphan programme and i am teaching adults ... |
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 | Shopping and dinner with family
2007-05-24, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: jax2asia | | Our last day in Hanoi we spent the morning shopping buying all the last minute souveniers but it was so hot we only lasted until lunch. Here is my disclaimer: I know we have been complaining a ton ab... |
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 | Touring Halong Bay
2007-05-23, Halong Bay, Vietnam. By: jax2asia | | Hi Everyone. We are a day behind updating our stories. We got in late last night from our day trip and couldn't even function anymore.
We had an amazing day! We left the hotel around 8am and off... |
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 | Yes...there are hardships as well.
2007-05-11, Danang, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | I may have just witnessed a murder!
Viet, his male cusins and myself went to the beach this evening. It was the same there as in Ghana; all of the men are swimming and playing in just their shorts... |
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 | Pho for Breakfast and Some Sightseeing
2007-05-22, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: jax2asia | | We started off the morning with some authentic Pho. Martin's cousin and his friend picked us up a the hotel and rode scooters again to the noodle place. We discovered last night that you can only ha... |
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| The light at the end of the tunnel!
2007-05-22, Saigon, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | Viet and I have said good bye to the family and are now in Saigon waiting to fly out tomorrow.
The last week with the family was both wonderful and exhausting. They are all truly wonderful and fun... |
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 | Day Two - In Hanoi
2007-05-21, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: jax2asia | | We woke up today at 5am, not bad considering we manageed to sleep through the night. Only thing is we totally passed out 6:30pm the night before! Had breakfast here at the hotel and got ready for ou... |
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 | Survived the trip down
2007-05-20, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: jax2asia | | It's 3:42 pm Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting here debating if this journal should be called Day 2 or Day 3, it sure feels like day three. Even though our flight out of Vancouver was late we made it ... |
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| Tidbits
2007-04-04, Da Nang, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | This is the first third world country I've been to where you don't see packs of dogs roaming the streets. I just found out why.
Yesterday Viet and I descided to take some time to befriend his aunt... |
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| Cat Tien
2007-03-27, Saigon, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | We spent four days at a national park/preserve outside of Saigon, which is famous for the protection of the endangered Java rhino. The park has only 8, while the remaining population live in Indoneas... |
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 | More from Vietnam
2007-03-31, Da Nang, Vietnam. By: vtgemini | | --I am in love with Nuoc Mia- Sugar cane juice- here in Vietnam. It is so good, especially on a hot sunny day. There is a Sugar canr juice vendor on every street corner in Vietnam, and even in the cou... |
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| War
2007-03-22, Saigon, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | Vietnam has had a long history of ocupancy and war. Centuries before the vietnam/American war, which captivated the west, they fought against Chineese rule, Khmers, Chams, Mongols, French colonialism... |
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| Birth, Life, and Death
2007-04-02, Da Nang, Vietnam. By: elishabee | | We had the blessing early on in the trip to meet Viet's great grandmother (96 years old). Though very much alive and aware, she resembled a corps with sunken in skin and very little flesh. We layed ... |
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 | skipping off
2007-03-28, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: tannerscot | | Hanoi the second time around has been slightly less abrasive; luckily I've been able to tag along with two cheery Londoners who've made my last day here much more positive. Ha Long Bay was really a gr... |
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| pit stop
2007-03-25, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: tannerscot | | Hue was wet and relaxing . . . especially compared to my present location: Hanoi. I didn't do a whole lot in Hue, checked out the old royal city, went on a tour of the DMZ, and got rather lost on a bi... |
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