 | Gollum on holiday
2002-01-31, Ha long, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Andrea and I got picked up to go to Halong Bay ... via the obligatory craft shop on the way, selling carved wooden tigers, dragons made from bone and hideous embroidered scenes of everyday life in Vie... |
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 | Flame spewing horses
2002-01-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Took a walk around Hanoi, to Haon Kiem lake and past the omnipresent communist motivational propoganda. Touts hounded us all the time, incredulous as to why we didn't want to buy more fake Lonely Plan... |
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| Good morning Vietnam ... again
2002-01-29, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | The rows and rows of waiting trucks and the grey drizzling rain was the signal that we had finally got to the Vietnamese border and had to leave the bus. The usual haphazard "checking out" proceedure ... |
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| Pregnant Pirate
2002-01-20, Hue, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Hired a boat for the day complete with pregnant crew casting us off. Within seconds the decking of the boat was covered with cards and statues being handed to us for inspection. Rice boats floated pas... |
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 | Theatrical Oranges
2002-01-19, Hue, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | A grey and drizzley day. We took a walk over the river to the imposing Imperial enclosure and the forbidden city. A dark fat bullet riddled tower squatting infront, with a Vietnamese flag the size of ... |
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| Bat wee!
2002-01-18, Hue, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Early in the morning we had a heated discussion at the reception of the hotel about the green marks that had appeared over our laundry. Money, threats and insults were thrown from both sides, tears we... |
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| Happy Birthday ... SPLAT!
2002-01-17, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Took a taxi along the raised road that ran through paddy fields on the way to My Son. A walk along a rickety bridge and a jeep ride took us to the Cham Towers set in jungle undergrowth in a basin surr... |
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 | Pool Warrior
2002-01-16, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Hoi An ... a quiet little place with very few cars, just the swish of silent sweaving cyclists to watch out for. Lots of dark wooded houses covered in mother of pearl lettering, a Japenese covered bri... |
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| Hyundai Bum
2002-01-15, Hoi An, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Look the morning bus to Hoi An, driving along roads that hugged the moutainous coastline. Below a flotilla of homogenous blue fishing boats with yellow stars on red flags flapping behind them. Stopped... |
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| Drowning Fly
2002-01-13, Nha Trang, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Spent the next two days diving. First dive reminded me of the importance of making sure that you take enough weights with you, as I flapped about on the surface like a drowing fly trying to break thro... |
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| So thats where they went
2002-01-11, Nha Trang, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Left the guest house and made our way up the coast. The entire family came out to wave us goodbye as we left. Drove past fields thousand shades of green being tended by people on conical hats ... even... |
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| Nam War Wound
2002-01-10, Phan Thiet, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Took the bikes and headed off to find some of the local sand dunes. On the way we passed some stalls, where some of the proprietors had decided to jump into the road waving to their cafes in order to ... |
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| Hell´s Grannies
2002-01-09, Phan Thiet, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Found a local place to have breakfast where we sat on childrens plastic chairs with our knees up around our ears. No menu, the old lady just brought us bread, fried eggs, chinese tea and thick sweet s... |
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| Wales in the summer time
2002-01-08, Phan Thiet, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Took the bus heading north to Phan Thiet. Passed lots of x-American army trucks that had been converted to more mundane tasks. Also ancient overloaded buses with large water tanks on the roof. When th... |
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| Nasal Napalm
2002-01-07, Saigon, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Day trip to the Mekong Delta with slight alcohol induced headache, not significantly helped by the guide who insisted in pointing out old American bunkers, the benefits of rice wine and how snake wine... |
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| Frothy crabs and slobbering old men
2002-01-06, Saigon, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Walked to Ben Thanh marketand mingled with the locals as they bought clothes, perfumes, stainless steel pots, flowers, fish, sweets and hideous tasteless glassware. The fruit stalls were full of unide... |
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| Terrible Jars
2002-01-05, Saigon, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Andrea went to the war remnants museum where they had a completely objective (ahem!) display about the Vietnam War and all the American war crimes. There were captured helicopters, tanks, jets and bo... |
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| Marshmellow Juice
2002-01-04, Saigon, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | A bit of an errands day broken up by sitting by one of the stalls by the side of the road looking at what the postcard touts had to sell and drinking from glasses full of tar like coffee with a layer ... |
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| Laaandslide!
2002-01-03, Saigon, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Yet another bus ride along crappy roads to the border crossing with Vietnam. Managed to pick the seat with the broken back, so sat most of the journey like an Apollo astronaut, every bump I was jettis... |
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 | Chaos
2002-04-06, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: sasha_shei | | Hello again, hope everyone is well. Sheila and I are great, been in Vietnam for about a week and have had a fun time so far. It is very different to Laos. We hopped on the overnight bus from Vientiane... |
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| Rain and fog
2002-01-31, Ha long, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Our trip to Halong Bay started early in the morning. We went without Uli and Matthias becuase they only wanted to go on a one day tour, whereas Neil and I really fancied staying on a boat for a night.... |
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| Just how I imagined it
2002-01-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Back in Vietnam, we arrived in Hanoi in the rain. Hanoi is just how I had imagined a South East Asian City. Full of hussle and busstle, pointy hats and bycicles. Here you can really see the Communist... |
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| A bus ride to remember
2002-01-18, Hue, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | The weather was horrible, the sights boring and our hotel grotty. Not really a place I would recommend. We only spent a couple of days there and where happy to leave. Unfortunately Hue was also the st... |
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| Things that make you happy... or not
2002-01-12, Nha Trang, Vietnam. By: nsuffield | | Next stop was Nha Trang. The only place in Vietnam were there is organised diving. We checked out the several dive operators and decided to go with Rainbow divers. They were really professional and ni... |
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