we arrived in hanoi weary after our long bus journey from dien bien phu. it was dark, damp and the bus station smelt of wee. but we hopped in our taxi and were soon at our hotel. we did not have high hopes for hanoi as i have decided i don’t like big cities much Read More »
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We arrived in Danang at around midday & it was significantly hotter here than what we left in Hanoi. We were supposed to be getting picked up by Hanoi hotels mans sister who owned a tailors shop in Hoi-An. We hung around at the station as she wasn’t there wondering at what point we would Read More »
On mai 2008. Outer travel at best only reflects the inner journey and at worst substitutes it. The world you perceive only provides symbols for what you seek. The sacred journey is inside you, before you can find what you’re looking for in the world, you have to find it within. Peaceful Warrior (Dan Millman) Read More »
Arrived in Nha Trang after another long stint on a sleeper bus with two drivers that seemed to be in some sort of competition with one another to see who could play chicken with the largest trucks and busses leaving it till an almost head on collision before pulling back in! So we decided it Read More »
It took about three hours in a mini bus to get to Halong Bay from Hanoi. Within Halong Bay there are almost two thousand small islands dotted as far as the eye can see. Folklore says that a family of dragons once came to Halong Bay to protect the Vietnamese people from invasion and that Read More »
So we booked our trip to Halong Bay with the Kangaroo Cafe tour company so that we didn’t get ripped off – we got to the cafe at 7 for breakfast, ate and boarded the minibus at 8. A guy who had also been told to get to the cafe for breakfast thought he was Read More »
We arrived yesterday in the ancient town of Hoi An, just south of Da Nang in the middle of Vietnam. Liza pointed out that the name Hoi An is anagram of Hanoi. I am pleased to notice this because it is the kind of thing that I like to notice as well. Like later in Read More »
This journal entry actually marks the second time we arrived in Hanoi. The first time, if you remember from our journal entry for Tam Coc, we were abandoned in Hanoi by the open bus we took from Hue, all the time thinking we were going to be dropped off in Ninh Binh. We won’t harp Read More »
Yesterday I spent in Saigon. First I took a taxi to the War Remnanats Museum – what an upsetting experience. If you think Mai Lai was an isolated incident think again! Quite how the Americans justified killing and disembowelling 3 boys aged 10, 8 and 6 I will never know. Several war reporters witnessed civilians Read More »
