The tourist trail from north to south Vietnam is an easy one to navigate. So easy in fact it’s almost embarrassing. Hanoi, Halong bay, Sapa. Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Da Lat, Mui Ne and finally, Saigon. Each town marked brightly on the ‘open tour’ bus network, on the tourist office maps, and in the [...]
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Tagged: Central Highlands, Da Lat, Di Linh, Easy Rider, Lak Lake, Vietnam, Waterfall
There were four fellow travellers on board as I boarded the otherwise exclusively Vietnamese bus to Da Lat. Two of them were sat at the back and to all intents appeared to be friendly, talkative sort of people. As soon as the engine started up the one in the aisle seat turned glassy-eyed and spent [...]
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Tagged: Da Lat, Easy Rider, Vietnam
For a town which I went to purely to do nothing at all for a while, I’ve kept myself pretty active here in the coastal town of Nha Trang. I’ve scuba-dived, gone swimming a lot and sunbathed. I’ve sweated muchly, eaten masses of awesome seafood, consumed an offensive amount of cocktails, had a nose bleed, [...]
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My skills in translating Vietnamese to English are, I’m afraid, utterly non-existent. I haven’t the slightest idea what any of the noises mean, and after two and a half weeks here my Vietnamese vocabulary, somewhat embarrassingly, only stretches as far as being able to gain a waitresses attention: “Em Oi!” not being the most difficult [...]
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There is a certain television show made by the BBC, based very loosely on cars, and featuring a massively outspoken Journalist, a vertically-challenged Brummie with an unsavoury fetish for shopping at Morrisons, and a man who says the word “cock” a lot. You may have seen the show before, and if so, may be aware [...]
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Tagged: Hai Van pass, Hoi An, Hue, Lang Co, Vietnam
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