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TRAVEL BLOG AND ITINERARY
a travel blog
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Fly into Ho Chi Minh city, a day exploring the Mekong Delta then into Phnom Penh by slowboat. Then to Siem Reap and Angkor Wat, again by slowboat. Fly into Vientiane, then bus to Luang Prabang via Vang Vieng. Fly to Hanoi, boat trip around Halong Bay and then overnight bus to Hue. Bus to Hoi An via Danang, overnight bus to Nha Trang then return to Ho Chi Minh by yet another overnight bus.
| Trip Itinerary (Travel Blog Entries) | |||
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) | Dec 08 '07 | Day 1 - Ho Chi Minh |
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) | Dec 09 '07 | Day 2 - Ho Chi Minh
"Ho Chi Minh somehow manages to combine crazy Asian buzz with European serenity." |
3 |
Chau Doc | Dec 10 '07 | Day 3 - Mekong Delta
"The Bia in question came out of this enormous pressurised vat, and better yet it cost about 30c for 2 litres!" |
4 |
Chau Doc | Dec 11 '07 | Day 4 - boat trip to Phnom Penh
"In more ways than one, Cambodia seems a desperate place." |
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Phnom Penh | Dec 12 '07 | Day 5 - Phnom Penh |
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Siem Reap | Dec 13 '07 | Day 6 - Boat to Siem Reap
"we passed some extremely deprived villages, in broken-down shacks - although strangely most had electricity and TV antennaes" |
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Siem Reap | Dec 14 '07 | Day 7 - Angkor Wat
"Huge trees grow straight out of the stone walls and crumbling towers of this mossy-covered establishment." |
8 |
Vientiane | Dec 15 '07 | Day 8 - Vientiane
"There's hardly any traffic - crossing the road is a breeze, and when we arrived on saturday afternoon, most of the shops were beginning to close." |
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Vang Vieng | Dec 16 '07 | Day 9 - Vang Vieng
"Thai chick in front of us got sick towards the end and threw up all over the aisle, spraying Adam’s feet with spew in the process" |
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Vang Vieng | Dec 17 '07 | Day 10 - Vang Vieng
"You float down, and they throw ropes out to you and pull you in, and you clamber out and go and sit up on a bamboo balcony and enjoy a beer lao" |
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Luang Prabang | Dec 18 '07 | Day 11 - Bus to Luang Prabang
"We'd had just about enough by then - we'd come in for a refund, only to discover that they wanted to extract more out of us." |
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Luang Prabang | Dec 19 '07 | Day 12 - Luang Prabang
"It's like the whole town has been stuck in a beautiful heritage time-warp" |
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Luang Prabang | Dec 20 '07 | Day 13 - Luang Prabang
"Laos has to be the most sustainable and eco-friendly nation in Asia - nearly 80% of the population live in traditional hamlets and villages, going about life in the same way they have done for centuries" |
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Luang Prabang | Dec 21 '07 | Days 14 & 15 - Luang Prabang |
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Hanoi | Dec 23 '07 | Day 16 - Hanoi
"Adam has this fierce desire to try dog meat, but its an experience I could do without." |
16 |
Halong Bay | Dec 24 '07 | Days 17-19 - Ha Long Bay
"Pulling up at one of the islands to visit a cave, we quickly discovered just how spoilt Ha Long bay has become" |
17 |
Hue | Dec 27 '07 | Day 20 - Hué
"The citadel itself is an interesting structure resembling greek fortifications, with beautiful ancient Vietnamese architecture contained within the crumbling walls." |
18 |
Hoi An | Dec 28 '07 | Day 21 - Hoi An
"The architecture is completely different to the gaudy concrete-clad rest of Vietnam." |
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Hoi An | Dec 29 '07 | Days 22 & 23 - Hoi An
"Even though the weather had been cloudy on the previous few days, it magically cleared up for us the day we decided to hit the beach" |
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Nha Trang | Dec 31 '07 | Day 24 - Nha Trang
"Ahh Nha Trang - this leg of the trip promised so much, yet delivered so little." |
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Nha Trang | Jan 01 '08 | Days 25 & 26 - Nha Trang
"This pretty much sums up our experience in Nha Trang - rip off, after rip off." |
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) | Jan 03 '08 | Day 26 - Ho Chi Minh
"We managed to bring in snake wine - a small bottle of wine with a dead snake floating in it" |
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