 | Good Morning Vietnam
2008-05-15, Saigon, Vietnam. By: stevoshell | | Our trip ends in the former capital of Vietnam, Saigon. A very busy city with millions of mopeds. Our group went for a walk and had our last supper and partyed to the wee hours of the morning. Plenty ... |
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 | Week eight - Hoi An - Nga Trang - Siem Reap
2008-04-07, Saigon, Vietnam. By: rabbitts | | Week eight feels like the week dedicated to being on the buses. Vietnam being the long snake of a country that it is meant I spent a substantial amount of my time on buses. The week started at 8am wi... |
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 | Saigon With Open Arms
2008-02-20, Saigon, Vietnam. By: mala | | It's not what I expected, which it never is, so I guess I should start expecting that. First of all, only officials call the place Ho Chi Minh City, which is a great relief because Saigon is much more... |
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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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 | 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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 | 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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| 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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| 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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 | Pilgrimage and Back
2007-03-14, Saigon, Vietnam. By: vtgemini | | Hello everyone,
What a journey! I just spent the last 3 weeks with Thich Nhat Hanh, and it has been just amazing. I've been moved to tears in many many moments. One of the most powerful incantati... |
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 | Candy Party
2006-10-26, Saigon, Vietnam. By: aw80sa | | Ahh...the thought of coming home looms in the foregrounds of my mind more and more these days. Thoughts of Christmas, family, friends, hockey, Tim Horton's etc. etc. and of course...the 2nd Anual Cand... |
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 | Good morning Vietnam (such a cliche title!)
2006-09-22, Saigon, Vietnam. By: tamtam31 | | Chảo! from Vietnam!
As a pre-note: this webpage does not have spell check, and every time I type a word it changes the letters to Vietnámese. I apôlogize in advance for any errors.
It’s ... |
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 | Good Morning Vietnam
2006-06-03, Saigon, Vietnam. By: hamjo | | Long time no talk, sorry
After Siem Reap and the mighty Wats we spent another week in Cambodia with no news worthy events transpiring, so we will cut straight to Vietnam.
After a 12 hour bus rid... |
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 | Hue, Hoi An, and English camp
2006-02-16, Saigon, Vietnam. By: jtanner | | Hello hello hello,
So it's been an exciting couple of weeks recently. 2 weeks ago, my group took a trip to the Central Coast of Vietnam. We took the train from HCMC to Quang Ngai. After 2 weeks in ... |
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| Mekong Delta!
2006-02-16, Saigon, Vietnam. By: jtanner | | Chao!
So many thing have happened over the past couple of weeks! I'll try to keep things brief. (Lauren, I promise I'll try to keep the unneccessary details out!)
The weekend before my group lef... |
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| Now entering Saigon
2006-02-16, Saigon, Vietnam. By: jtanner | | Chao cac ban!
There are supposed to be accents on some of those words that I don't know how to do on the computer, but that says Hello friends!
So, we finished our trip to Dalat with one super ... |
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 | Good Morning, Vietnam.
2005-05-03, Saigon, Vietnam. By: marklee | | Was there last summer...
Looking forward there again this summer en-route Phneom Penh, Cambodia.
Anyone wanna join?
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Saigon is now on the way to regain its heyday whe... |
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 | A Day's Description
2005-11-17, Saigon, Vietnam. By: Exploring | | Today I got a luxuriously late start to the day, and made it down the super narrow stairs in my guesthouse to the main floor without tripping over my skirt. Ahh, little victories. The family that runs... |
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| November 16, 2005
2005-11-16, Saigon, Vietnam. By: Exploring | | Saigon is a modern city that is fairly developed, and there are lots of big buildings, restaurants, parks, etc. There are more motorbikes here than anywhere else I've been so far, and lots of the kids... |
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| Vietnam
2005-11-15, Saigon, Vietnam. By: Exploring | | I'm happily in Vietnam. I was extremely excited to come here, and was certain that I'd really like it, and so far I do. I had a nice fiasco free bus trip, with only one flat tire, and made it here in ... |
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 | HCMC, PDQ
2005-11-02, Saigon, Vietnam. By: jeffhilton | | Oh no. After about two and a half weeks of fun, enlightenment and, well, beer, the time was rapidly coming to leave Vietnam. In fact, we liked it in Vietnam so much that as I write we are already a we... |
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 | Phew,
2005-10-08, Saigon, Vietnam. By: day1 | | Wellnow.
All is going well here in HoChiMinh city. have to say not the place for American patriotism.
Went to the Cu Chi tunnels tdoay and then to the War Remnants Museum.
BOth places prided themse... |
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| Miss Saigon?
2005-10-06, Saigon, Vietnam. By: day1 | | Just arrived in Saigon today. Spent ages at the vietnam border for some reason...they love a bit of red tape...like the french.
Phnom Penh was good. I really liked it there. Went on the piss by the r... |
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 | Untwist my back. Say you'll crack it again!
2005-05-01, Saigon, Vietnam. By: S0ck3t | | Oh. 30 year anniversary of the end of the American war (aka the Vietnam war). And I'm in Saigon. Luckily we didn't have our foreign policy dictated by the US back then so I don't think there's any har... |
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 | The streets of Saigon
2005-01-22, Saigon, Vietnam. By: seta76 | | Sometimes pictures say it all...so i've uploaded some pictures of Saigon for you!
The past week i've spent my days walking the strets of Saigon observing the marvels of the people. You can find ev... |
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 | Hello from Saigon!
2005-01-20, Saigon, Vietnam. By: seta76 | | Hello from Saigon! Saigon is a sea of motorcycles...about 3 million of them to be exact...and with most of them being women it looks like i'm surrounded by bandit women sporting face masks and hats o... |
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