Random Stuff Vietnamese brands: Honda = Hongda Bebe = eBeB Puma = Pima Why worry about Copyright infringement if you're still gonna keep the same logo. ie. Honda wings, Puma picture. People here represent american brands as if its the shit ie. starbucks t-shirts. Dudes take pisses on the side of the road like it ain't no thing. Its kinda obvious too cause their backs are facing the road but in front of them theres buildings with people working inside. I've seen both dudes in suits and blue collar people do it. Spitting and digging for nose gold is no big [View Full Entry]

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Hi All, Well we survived the Mekong river delta. The trip was not as easy going, relaxed and comfortable as advertised and we were glad it was over when it was. We opted for the 2 day, 1 night on a (1 week old floating hotel) and slow boat up the river and across the border to Pnomh Penh, Cambodia, it all looked nice in the brochure. We got up early for our 7am departure and had a 3 hour bus ride to get to the boat. We boarded quite a nice boat and boated on up the river stopping at [View Full Entry]

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This blog entry covers 'Nam from China beach up to Halong Bay. I was expecting to live a little like a hermit for my first few weeks in China as I had heard stories of people not seeing any foreigners for weeks on end etc. This would have allowed me to get completely up to date on my bloggy wogging, but instead I have been having a wicked time meeting loads of decent people. Hence the lack of blog updates recently. I haven't actually got any further in China than Dali, my second stop after spending 11 days in Kunming… Dali [View Full Entry]

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Hello to anyone and everyone who may be reading this! You can probably tell we are now in Vietnam and so far I think I have to say this is my favourite place of the trip (only been here a week though!). Anyway, we left Cambodia after 4 days of doing nothing on the beach other than getting sunburnt (again for me - I'm being such an idiot on this trip!) and eating lots of BBQ sea food. We chickened out of the 'less travelled' border into Vietnam and instead went back up to Phnom Penh and crossed into Ho Chi [View Full Entry]

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right this might work... and it has, for the first time in ages I can put some photos on the internet. I shall go for note form: - I spent 3 days in Hanoi - and then one day in er.....I forget....Hue. thats it. -now i am in Hoi An. -tomorrow i go to Nha Trang. - Vietnam is not as good as China, but i cant be arsed writing about it. I shall write more in the near future. bye bye. [View Full Entry]

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Oh Hoi An, how I love thee! It's a charming and lovely town, showing off what Vietnam looked like in the days gone by. It's easy to spend an afternoon strolling along the river, or roaming through the quaint shops that line every street. But the best thing about Hoi An is the tailored-made clothes! Everywhere you turn is a tailor ready to cheaply custom make whatever you desire. Brad and I went absolutely crazy, and our tally is as follows: Brad: 8 pairs of pants, 12 dress shirts, 2 coats, and 2 pairs of shoes. Jessica: 3 coats, 2 pairs [View Full Entry]

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Pour faire suite a la derniere mise a jour, je me suis effectivement perdu pour une troisieme fois en environ 8 heures en quittant le café internet pour rentrer a l'hotel l'autre soir. J'ai decidemment un probleme avec Hoi An. Pour répondre a Michele, j'essayais le moins possible d'arreter pour utiliser ma boussole et la carte parce que quand tu t-arrete pour une seulement une seconde dans cette ville, une gang de fatiguants s'aglutine automatiquement autours de toi. J'aurais peut-etre du arreter pour retrouver mon chemin par exemple parce que en tournant en rond, je passais tout le temps devant le [View Full Entry]

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Hier noch ein Nachtrag zum Ausgang... Am Freitag habe ich mich zum ersten Mal in Nha Trang so richtig in den Ausgang getraut. Zuerst gings in die Bar vis-a-vis meines Hotels, dort lernte ich den Besitzer und ein Australier kennen (dieses Mal hat es nur Australische reisende :) ). Dann ging ich zum "legendaeren" Sailing Club. Es ist Open Air am Strand mit Bar und DJ, ueberdachte Tanzflaeche. Dort wo die Weissen, oder Westlichen, Maenner hingehen, um eine junge (mir kamen sie nicht jung vor, eher aelter ;) ) Vietnamesin aufzureisen. Oder sich von einer dortigen aufreisen zu lassen :) Damit [View Full Entry]

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hue is an ex capial, situated on the central east coast and is the forth largest city in Vietnam. we set out to explore the town on foot and bumped into a guy called archie who helen had met on one of the day tours she had gone on while i mooched around hanoi on foot. we walked over the Song Huong River and through the walls of the old town. as we entered there was the usual mob of tuk tuk offering us a tour of the old town, we declined and asked which way to the citadel, they said [View Full Entry]

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Equipo, It is currently pouring buckets of rain just outside the internet cafe in Da Lat in the southern highlands of Vietnam. Every minute or so about five gallons of water come pouring off the veranda of the shop across the street when the water weighs it down too much. Three minutes ago there was nothing falling from the sky. Nam. Da Lat is a puzzling town to us, the tourists it attracts are more often honeymooning Vietnamese than western backpackers. All the same, we have enjoyed its cool climate and pine covered hills, as well as its swan shaped paddle [View Full Entry]

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