 | Our last day in Vietnam
2008-02-22, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. By: bennicci | | Goodevening everyone!
WELLLLLLLL WELLL WELLLL...Ben has handed over the task of journal entry tonight to ME! (on our 3rd last night, thanks benny!!)
As it was our last day in vietnam today, we ... |
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 | Good Morning Vietnam!
2008-02-21, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. By: bennicci | | In the famous words of Robin Williams... GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!
Yes we have finally made it after a tedious bus ride here. Was meant to be six and turned out to be more like 9! Although it didn't ... |
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 | Until Next Time Vietnam.........
2008-01-10, Nam Xoi, Vietnam. By: Damo | | The cycling part of my last journal entry finished on somewhat of a sour note due to the fact that I had ingested more mountain dirt than food over the previous three days. However, I said that I wou... |
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 | Now they won't let us leave!
2008-01-20, Ho chi minh city, Vietnam. By: hamsouth | | Well grabbed our last 12 night bus down to Ho chi min city and planned to spent 1 and a half days here before heading back over to Thailand to relax in the sun before heading home.STORY NOT FINISHED |
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 | Scamming capital of the world!!
2008-01-08, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: tonyandbex | | Vietnam is amazing, if you decide to go remember to fasten your seat belts! You will go through a rollercoaster of emotions! Hanoi was our base and getting to a bar for a drink was a challenge as yo... |
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| Shopping and beaches
2008-01-14, Hoi an, Vietnam. By: hamsouth | | After a five hour journey we arrived at Hoi an but this time we just took the normal seated night bus and although the driver was all over the place again it wasn't as bad.
Now this a place that al... |
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| Historic sights from the vietnam war
2008-01-05, hue, Vietnam. By: hamsouth | | After Hanoi we jumped on what they call the night sleeper bus down to hue.It was a 12 hour journey driven by yet another crazy vietnamiese bus driver.There's no seats on the bus just bunkbeds and bloo... |
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| Hello Vietnam
2007-12-29, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: hamsouth | | Well we arrived in Hanoi at about 8.30amish and by 10'o'clock we were checked into our guest house and down at a place called beer corner that we'd heard about from friends, with an Irish lad called R... |
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 | Merry Christmas from the Depths of Despair
2007-12-12, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: Damo | | From Halong Bay I travelled to Vietnam's beautiful capital; Hanoi, where I was to have a three week holiday away from the tour while waiting for some bike parts to be shipped from Australia. It was g... |
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 | Mekong Adventure 2
2007-11-23, Can Tho, Vietnam. By: sandman | | I Left Mui Ne and headded for Saigon(Ho Chi Min City) after the rain wouldnt quit. It was nice to be in a big city again. Saigon is a much more modern city than Hanoi, I really enjoyed it. I took in t... |
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| Waterfalls and Waves
2007-11-26, Saigon, Vietnam. By: sandman | | Dalat was a really awsome place. I met up with this Kiwi girl who had just come from a year working in Canada at Sunshine Ski Resort in Banff. I convinced her to go Canyoning which was one of the best... |
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| Typhoon Dodger
2007-11-10, Saigon, Vietnam. By: sandman | | Wow ....have I ever been lucky! Somebody is on my side because I have been all over Vietnam in the last 6 weeks and I havent seen 1 flood! I talk to people every day that say how terrible their trip t... |
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 | Farewell My Love
2007-11-10, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: Damo | | With the weather failing to pass in Kham Duc and feeling the urge once more to get back to the well-trodden path where I can at least be semi-anonymous, I began the 130km journey to Hoi An.
Despite... |
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 | Ho Chi Mihn-ee Motorbikes
2007-11-11, Saigon, Vietnam. By: dilleybug | | I am in Saigon which has been renamed Ho Chi Mihn after the Vietnam war, which they call the American War here by the way. I went to the war museum and the Cu Chi tunnels and it has taken me a little ... |
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 | Little Update
2007-11-09, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: dilleybug | | Shit. i just wrote a whole thing and it got erased! The Darn Vietnam internet connection!
okay well here is the jist: Went to a beach party, very fun. lots of stars and ocean and redbull vodkas. Ye... |
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 | Making Plans
2007-11-05, Hue, Vietnam. By: dilleybug | | I made it safely to Hue. The origional empirial capital of Vietnam. it is raining and there are 'floods' here. Basicly there is just water everywhere. a whole crop of this years rice was lost to the w... |
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| 1st Tour of Duty in NAM
2007-10-20, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: sandman | | OK
I have been on the move this month, my last entry was in Laos I believe so I ll go from there! I flew from Ventine Laos (the capital city) the same day that I had arrived there. I really had not ... |
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 | Dragon Cave
2007-11-03, Ha noi, Vietnam. By: dilleybug | | Captains Log stardate 93459837459832475
The "Mouth of the Dragon" Cave formation:
The sentinals watch the river and guard over it. Hovering towers of forested mountain - where the jungle has was... |
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| Good Morning Vietnam!
2007-10-30, Ha noi, Vietnam. By: dilleybug | | So getting here was like Forever. But i met four Finnish girls on the bus that let me tag along with them to the hostel. which ended up being very lucky as it was dark, rainy, and far. More fun to exp... |
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 | "Hello!"
2007-11-01, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: Damo | | After my first journal entry on Vietnam, my buddy, Tam, emailed me to say that she was sorry my experience in her homeland hadn't been a delightful one. I hadn't realised the entry had that sort of t... |
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 | Chasing The Monsoon
2007-10-02, Da Lat, Vietnam. By: Damo | | I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to getting out of Cambodia and into Vietnam, a country about which I’ve received so many mixed responses from fellow travellers. Some say the people ar... |
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 | The March To Saigon
2007-07-25, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. By: mashman | | This bus ride then, was a monster. Hoi An straight through to Saigon, 25 hours, a new record...
Fortunately sleeping wasn't a problem for me at this time as my health was still very mediocre at be... |
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 | On The Buses
2007-07-20, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: mashman | | Back on the buses then with no time to lose and next stop Hue, only 12 hours this ride so survivable. I befriended Van, the likeable lawyer from Hanoi who chatted with me at length for a couple of ho... |
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 | A Showstopper in Sapa
2007-07-13, Sa Pa, Vietnam. By: mashman | | I'd been lucky so far. The extent of my health woes had been limited to food poisoning and a minor head injury up Everest, the bamboo swing impact to the ribs in Laos, and my unfortunate leap into a ... |
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 | The Peak District
2007-07-10, Ha Long, Vietnam. By: mashman | | I didn't initially loiter in Hanoi and opted to get straight on the road east to Halong Bay, one of Vietnam's most stunning areas of geography. A short bus ride and I was at Halong City boarding one ... |
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