Home away from home

Our room in the 'Beautiful Saigon Hotel' in the Pham Ngu Lao area of HCMC. The staff are friendly and we'll be back here again when we pass through HCMC during the rest of the trip. Comes with a computer, TV, AC etc for $50/night. Nice and clean and a good restaurant downstairs.

Heading north

April 13th 2011
After a bunch of hemming and hawing we decided it made more sense to head north to Hanoi and visit Hao Long bay and leave the Anghor Wat return for another trip. We're hopping a plane there today and we'll be bookending it with a day in Hanoi on either end of 3 days and two nights on Hao Long bay, one on a boat (made to look like an old chinese junk) and one in a hotel on 'Monkey Island'. Probab ... read more

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