 | Week seven - Vang Vieng - Hanoi - Halong Bay - Hue
2008-03-31, Hue, Vietnam. By: rabbitts | | The aftermath of the storm was quite evident, trees uprooted, rooves partly blown off but the hammers came out and rooves were fixed and debris cleared up. The owner of Bamboo Bar where we sheltered r... |
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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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 | 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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 | 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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 | Beautiful Hoi An & Ancient Hue
2007-03-24, Hue, Vietnam. By: sjwacnc | | We made our way from Nha Trang to Hue. We stopped along the way at a cute little town Hoi An. It is know for its taliors, artists and great food. Christine was in heaven! We got our feet wet at China ... |
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 | Citadels and Motorbikes
2007-03-03, Hue, Vietnam. By: cmciver | | On our first day in Hue we did a little relaxing by the pool and then had a guided tour of the city's Citadel. This was once a magnificent city which was systematically destroyed, firstly by the Frenc... |
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 | The Cold Wet . . . Center
2007-03-21, Hue, Vietnam. By: tannerscot | | As I had figured, Quy Nhon turned out to be a pleasant break from the tourist rat-race. One day I rode a bike out to this beach a few kilometers from town . . . the guide book recommended hiring a mot... |
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 | Rain
2006-12-14, Hue, Vietnam. By: Dids | | Well it's raining. I think we've caught the edge of the typhoon that people have been talking about. So I'm in some internet cafe in Hue after finally deciding to add something to this thing. I've ... |
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 | Rails, a rip and a few threads
2006-04-24, Hue, Vietnam. By: gemandyoz | | Vietnam is remarkably similar to China, most obviously in the food, temple architecture, and in the peoples desire to want to beep their bus, car or motorbike horns as much as possible. Another thing ... |
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 | Hue
2005-12-26, Hue, Vietnam. By: janinemo | | After originally planning on taking the train from Hoi An, we decided to take the bus, which cut down our actual travelling time quite substantially. Of course, the guy that we bought the bus tickets... |
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 | Hue
2005-10-23, Hue, Vietnam. By: graham78 | | We arrived in Hue mid morning having got the overnight train down from Hanoi. The train and first class sleepers in Vietnam are not a touch on those in China. They rattle and shake around a lot, which... |
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 | Hue know it makes sense
2005-10-23, Hue, Vietnam. By: jeffhilton | | Local man: "Where you from?"
Jeff: "England"
Local man: "England!!! Football good!!! Michael Owen"
Jeff: "Yes"
I must have had this conversation about 350 times already since coming to Vietnam. ... |
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 | Poor Hue didnt get a look in.
2005-10-24, Hue, Vietnam. By: day1 | | Hellllloooo again. Actually in Hanoi now but will get to that later. Firstly, we stayed longer than intended in Hoi An cos we met up with Sean and Ann for a few nights and had a great laugh with them.... |
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 | Hey You! You wan ride? How bout smoke?
2005-03-31, Hue, Vietnam. By: tcassie | | After being held at the border for an extra two hours....long story involving one American guy from Montana and the 48 Bibles that he was trying to sneak into the country....we finally arrived in the ... |
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 | One day with a South Vietnamese war veteran
2005-01-10, Hue, Vietnam. By: seta76 | | Wrapped in a home-made seran-wrap poncho, ridding behing a South Vietnamese war veteran on his motorcycle, we rode around the city of Hue for the day. It was raining and all the Vietnamese were on th... |
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 | City of the Emperors
2004-09-10, Hue, Vietnam. By: wts | | We took the night train at 7pm from Hanoi and headed towards Hue. The trip takes 13hours so you get there in the morning. The train trip is pretty noisy but comfortable enough and its always enjoyable... |
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 | and the walls came falling down......
2004-01-13, Hue, Vietnam. By: todd_rach | | This is an express travel update - had to share with everyone todays travel highlight....
It started off innocently (and uncomfortabley) enough with a 16 hour train ride from Hanoi to Hue (pronnoun... |
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 | Wedding Bells!!
2003-03-07, Hue, Vietnam. By: scottyg | | 8th March 2003, Today we have reason for a special short journal entry! One Eye, our best mate dropped us an e-mail from him and Kerri to announce they're getting married on the 25th May, in Brisba... |
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 | Back by popular demand...........
2003-03-04, Hue, Vietnam. By: scottyg | | 4th to 8th March 2003, Back by popular demand, our continuing travel journals! You can all stop stressing now and read on…………! Where were we?? Oh yes, Hanoi train station! We boarded the train in... |
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 | Guys from Vinh
2002-07-04, hue, Vietnam. By: chefgrad | | We were almost robbed! Those darn cyclo drivers. “Hello my friend… We are broda… You want cyclo cheap?” After some bargaining the price went down to 25000 dong for each cyclo. We headed off to the mar... |
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| all in one day
2002-07-03, hue, Vietnam. By: chefgrad | | Hue is like a little of many places. Laid back feel of the old California, hip café scene of Paris, (at night) the dreamy feel of those white houses along the shores of Greece, and the genuine friendl... |
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| Darn coke bottles!
2002-07-02, Hue, Vietnam. By: chefgrad | | In the Lotus hotel and I’m very satisfied. This is probably the best hotel we’ve been to so far! We arrived in Hue at about 8:30 this morning. Because of the annoyances, that we’ve experience on the t... |
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 | Hanging Out with the Head Monk
2002-11-18, Hue, Vietnam. By: sbirch | | We drove by bus to the next town of Hue along the way we stopped at china beach and the marble mountains where we watched people carve giant sculptures out of the marble. I got an idea to have someone... |
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 | Air horn crazy
2002-11-24, Hue, Vietnam. By: fatseas | |
20 Nov 2002 - Savannakhet to Dong Hene 89km
After killing time for a week in Savannakhet with relentless eating and (slow) internet surfing, we finally get our Vietnam visas and start cycling aga... |
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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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| 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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