The bus system in Vietnam is awful, I don't think I can say that enough. But it's cheap! So we suck it up. It only cost us like $25 to get all our bus rides from the North to the South of Vietnam. However they were long rides where you are shoved to the back and packed in with the foreigners so the locals can have their own double seats at half price. The drivers are insane! And the roads, not the greatest. A lot of people pop sleeping tablets and valium to get them through the night, I wasn't that [View Full Entry]

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Vietnam! So we arrived in Hanoi 2 weeks ago. We were told that the local people in Northern Vietnam especially were not very nice, but so far everything has been really good with a couple of exceptions. In Hanoi we took a taxi to the waterpark, instead of using his meter (which he could take us on a more scenic route to up the charge) we agreed on a set price of 60,000 dong (approx $3.70 CND). Which was fine, when we got there the meter was 55,000 so we didn't loose much, about .40 cents. We figured on the way [View Full Entry]

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I left off last time in Chaing Mai - we only got to spend a few days there but I loved it! While we were there we went looking for a three day trekking trip, however the one night ones seemed more popular so we went with that. Thank God we did because we almost didn't make it through two days of hiking through the jungle! It was quite the adventure, we packed 15 adults into a small toyota pickup and headed onto some off-roads. The truck was spitting out some nasty black smoke as it worked extra hard to go [View Full Entry]

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Wow! Sorry I have not been keeping up with my blogging very well! That just means that there is lots and lots to tell.... So I finished off the last one in Ko Pha-Ngan. We spent a couple more days there but we moved to the beach of Haad Rin where the full moon party takes place, being that it was over there was actually some accomodation there! It was soooo much better than Laem Son haha, there were actually lights, shops and people around, so we were alot happier there. We went to see a Muay Thai boxing fight which [View Full Entry]

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Hello Fans, or should I say grandma haha (I think you are my only reader). Well lots has happened since Bangkok. We went took an overnight bus to an island called Ko Tao, it's very small. The bus was interestin, I tried to sleep the whole time because everytime I was awake I was a little nervous about the drive, it was pretty rough. In Ko Tao we took our dive course from Crystal Dive Resort, it was really amazing! We loved their dive crew and really miss the island. It was a four day course, we start in the classroom [View Full Entry]

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So we've made it! We arrived in Bangkok last night around midnight. We were in airports and on planes for about 30 hours and lost 12 on the way here, so about a 2 day process! In other words it was the shortest day of my life (only 12 hours) but it definatley felt like the longest. I am happy to say that all our flights and what not were on time, and customs was smooth sailing! So far we haven't had any problems and I'm starting to feel like something has to happen soon haha, knock on wood. When we [View Full Entry]

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