Nha Trang was nice, not alot of character to it but te weather and beach means that you can deal with it! Pretty much like a baking hot Blackpool or somewhere else in the UK. Hot enough to give us all sunburn. My lesson that I learnt : get someone else to lotion your back. [...]
Hue….. We spent a couple of days here and it rained non stop! We arrived in the afternoon after spending the day traveling. We had read that the train ride between Danang and Hue is meant to be stunning so we got off the bus in Danang, caught a moto to the train station and [...]
Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park lies in Quang Binh Province – the central Vietnam. Covering an area of about 200,000 hectares, Phong Nha – Ke Bang situated in Quang Ninh, Bo Trach, Tuyen Hoa and Minh Hoa districts, is 50km northwest of Dong Hoi City. Phong Nha – Ke Bang can be compared to [...]
The border crossing between Prek Chak in Cambodia and Xa Xia in Vietrnam has been open for a couple of years now. Even so, recent travellers’ blogs have reported that it’s not an easy journey between the two main towns either side i.e. Kampot and Ha Tien. The concensus seemed to be that you need [...]
Saigontourist welcomed more than 1,000 travelers on the Costa Classica cruise ship that docked in Ho Chi Minh City on February 16. As scheduled, after arriving in Halong, visitors will visit Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage, with many beautiful sites including the Hon Cho Da (Stone Dog Rock), Cong Troi (Heaven Gate Rock), Hon [...]
Saigon is a city on the move in all respects. The city roads are clogged with a mass of motorbikes and scooters. Crossing the busy roads is challenging to say the least as the bikes and scooters appear from all directions and appear to have no regard for the traffic lights. The city is also [...]
OK so its been awhile so a bit to catch up on! So on our last day in Hanoi we went to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where the body of Ho Chi Minh or Uncle Ho is kept. We rocked up and the line to get in was massive just hundreds and hundreds of [...]
The easyrider I set up for today was MUCH cheaper and bargainable, spoke way less english, drives a moped (much slower than the motorbikes we were on yesterday), but he got me around. With our bus leaving Dalat for Saigon at 1:30, I only had the first half of the day to finish touring Dalat. [...]
Departing Ho Chi Minh at exactly 11 pm, the train ride was definitely an experience to remember. The 4 bed cabins were full so we had a 6 cabin room, which is 2 sides with triple level bunk beds…. claustrophobia galoreeee, esp since I had a middle bed. To be honest I was freaking out [...]
A tourism promotion conference for the central province of Thua Thien-Hue in 2011 took place in Ho Chi Minh City on January 19. The conference also announced the National Tourism Year 2012 which will be hosted by the province. It is part of activities to continue promoting images of land, people and tourism products as [...]
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