 | There, I've figured it out
2009-11-23, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: lotschurin | | Here you go, this is what I'm traveling for.
To learn how to live by the day, or better even, by the moment (you mentioned this before Miriam).
To learn how to accept that things never exactly go ... |
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 | Hot Vietnam Travel Adventure
2009-11-12, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: puretravel | | There are few places on earth as captivating and as energising as Vietnam and if you are considering a vacation there then you should definitely make time to visit the former capital city, Ho Chi Minh... |
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 | Vietnam, Hanoi, Keep going
2009-09-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: mynewlife | | Vietnam is a buuuuusy place, with motorcycles and winding roads is one of those places you can get lost easily. We ate breakfast very late, visited a city close by called Bat Tranh where there are a l... |
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 | Charming Ha Noi Vietnam
2009-07-14, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: paradissa | | Hanoi is the elegant capital city of Vietnam sprawling its way along the Red River banks. There are many lakes, parks and leafy quarters which make the city just freshly green all year round. Ha Noi w... |
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 | Leaving Hanoi
2009-04-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: zoejess | | Happy liberation day! This is our last morning in Hanoi, so while we still have a guarantee of a free internet connection we thought it would be a good idea to update you on our journey so far...
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 | The adventure begins
2009-04-25, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: zoejess | | We are currently sitting in hostel number one at 10.45 pm listening to the roar of Vietnamese traffic as it whizzes past (this makes a nice change from looking at each other and the interiors of airp... |
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 | Motorbikes, moterbikes, motorbikes everywhere we look
2009-04-24, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: aimee | | Oh yes, Hanoi is full of motorbikes! They are everywhere and it's very scary especially because they like to drive on the pavement as well as the road. "Don't worry," said John "they won't come too cl... |
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 | Halong Bay
2009-02-10, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: sayer | | Hello......
We have returned after visiting Halong Bay (google it to see some pics!). We started with a three hour bus journey, which was good because we got to chat with everyone. We then got onto... |
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| Busy Hanoi!!!
2009-02-07, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: sayer | | Hello people of snowy England!!! Yesterday was a really nice day here, the sun was out and it got to about 30 degrees C. We booked the Ha long bay trip for tomorrow and we also found a nice little hot... |
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| Arrived in Vietnam safe and sound!!!! Read me!
2009-02-05, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: sayer | | Hi everyone,
Hope you are all alright?
We are here in Vietnam now, to be fair so far it's pretty dingy but taxi was reliable from the airport to the hostel. We loved the taxi journey, though we... |
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 | War and Peace
2008-11-19, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: katsmith | | Hello again!
Firstly, I realised after publishing it that in my haste to get something on to my blog (in order to reassure you, Mom, that I am infact still alive) I managed to forget a few things ... |
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 | Hectic Hanoi
2008-10-01, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: rossnkaren | | Scooters everywhere. No one checks their mirrors or blind spots so they just beep their horns to let each other know they are coming past. The result is chaos and noise.
Beer and food here is v... |
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 | Ha Long Bay
2008-10-02, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: alexvale | | So we've been in Vietnam about four days and just got back from the Ha Long Bay boat tour. Stopping in a quality hostel called Hanoi Backpackers which is where all the cool kids hang out. If anybody c... |
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 | Arrived!
2008-06-15, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: SilverAsia | | Hey all,
So I made it safe and sound to Hanoi, Vietnam. After the dinner/karaoke/dance party with my community in Sompoi, I headed back to the house to pack and then head to the bus at Chatturat ar... |
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 | Now in Vietnam
2008-03-10, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: GBrownlie | | On the 10th March we said a fond farewell to Laos as we boarded the plane to Vietnam, after having our final beer Lao at the airport. We arrived in Hanoi 1.5 hours later and began the search for our h... |
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 | A Walk In The Old Quarter
2008-02-27, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: mala | | From our window in the Old Quarter of Hanoi you can observe the ins and outs of daily life: motorbikes plowing through crowds of bicycles plowing through crowds of ladies with fruit hanging from their... |
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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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | Exploring Hanoi
2007-02-28, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: cmciver | | As promised a more detailed overview of our recent tour, starting off with Hanoi city in Vietnam.
Hanoi, 26th-28th of February
We arrived in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, in the evening on the ... |
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 | Goodmorning Vietnam
2007-03-02, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: gtontour | | Hey all,
After a successful, but stressfull border crossing from HongKong to Vietnam we eventually arrived in Hanoi after two overnight bus trips a taxi and another mini bus ride (were we had 17 pe... |
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 | Le Mat (Snake Village)
2006-12-18, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: Dids | | It was my last day in Hanoi and I was a bit bored of sightseeing by about three o'clock. My train didn't come till much later that evening so I decided to hit the Bia Hoi bars in the Old Quarter. Af... |
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 | Visting hanoi and sapa
2006-12-07, hanoi, Vietnam. By: socrates | | For me to visit a capital city like Hanoi in the north of Vietnam is very different from the typical capitals of S. E Asia. In Hanoi you will find lots of communist influences (as in the hammer and s... |
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 | Last day in Hanoi
2006-11-04, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: vietnamben | | Today we fly down to Danang and then take short drive to Hoi An on the mid-coast. The past two days I've been very sick with some kind of food poisoning so I've been doing alot of sleeping and not muc... |
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 | Work begins
2006-10-31, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: vietnamben | | Dear friends-
Happy Halloween! I'm having trouble uploading photos to this site so sorry I have nothing to show you yet but fear not we shall overcome.
Today, Tues., the consultant team (me and Ed... |
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| Humanity in your face
2006-10-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: vietnamben | | I toured Hanoi yesterday by taxi and motorbike. I had hoped to see Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum and learn about him but it was closed when I arrived. So this motorbike driver approached me and convinced me... |
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| My itinerary
2006-10-30, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: vietnamben | | 10-28: arrive Hanoi
10/29-11/4: Hanoi
11/4-8: Hoi An- Cu Lau Cham MPA
11/8-11: Nha Trang- Hoi Man MPA
11/11-13: Ho Chi Minh
11/13-15: Phu Quoc Island
11/15-17: Ho Chi Minh debrief
11/17: Depart... |
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 | Snake Village
2006-05-11, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: Digtacular | | My friends Mike and Buffalo Joe were determined to eat snake, and so was I. We wanted to see if the blood, actually had viagraic effects like the Lonely planet claimed. We asked our moped-taxi drive... |
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 | 9 Days in Nam...
2006-09-11, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: jandtrish | | Only 9 days...
The Vietnamese Embassy issued the wrong date on our visas which made our brief visit to Vietnam even more brief. Every time we were asked how long we were staying the response would ... |
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 | Good afternoon Vietnam, (Hanoi)
2006-08-26, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: hrd1977 | | We touched down in Hanoi, the Capital of Vietnam, mid-afternoon and took the transfer to our hotel in the old district of the city. We ventured out for a quick look around, quickly adopting our Chines... |
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 | Too many Vietnamese, not enough brains.
2006-06-03, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: hamjo | | Long time no story tell. Hanoi was interesting we had some of our most frustrating travelling experiences here. We constatly struggled not to get ripped off from hotels right down to buying a bottle... |
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| Good Morning Vietnam
2006-06-08, Hanoi, Vietnam. By: emmaken05 | | Hi Everyone,
Hope all is good back in Ireland cos i will be back there soon!! Feeling a bit sad this is nearly my last journal. Cant believe it. This time 2 weeks i will be on the plane back to sun... |
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