In lieu of attempting various small posts that I fail to properly keep the trend going after a few days, I’m going to write a longer one shot page on my experiences in this country. Cambodia is complex. It has some deep history and some dark history, and right next to the blooms of tourist … More Cambodia the complex -1
Seeing how I have not made any post in the past 3 months presque, I should just fold. But I finally have some free time, and a scene from Vietnam is coming back to mind quite vividly. June 17, Anna and I started driving south from My Khe beach, headed in the general direction of … More A Mad Tea Party between Hội An and Nha Trang
A conversation with a friend yesterday reminded me of the great joy that was our stay in SaPa. One of my former roommates, Karl, has been to Vietnam more than a few times. He gets a job here, works at it for a while, maybe a year at most. Then he quits, heads to … More SaPa
By the end of our first day in Hanoi, we’d already decided to head away from the city. The water, that will be our first destination. CatBa island. Ha Long Bay. There’s many tourist outfits in Hanoi (around the Old Town neighbourhood) who provide single/multi day trips to the famed HaLong Bay and trout … More CatBa and the HaLong (LanHa) Bay
Around 11-30 pm on the 30th of May, we reached Hanoi, Vietnam. Neither the Visa officers (we had a mandatory pre-arranged invitation letter)nor the immigration officials said much. An airport shuttle picked us up and dropped us at the hotel we named, a hostel whose name we googled on our phone during transit in Chicago. … More Hanoi
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