http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Vietnam en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:40:27 +0000 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:40:27 +0000 In a recent meeting on 22 February 2013 in Hanoi The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organization VUFO and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry VCCI are in corporation with Tokyo Inn Corporation Japanese to discuss on a huge project of building 100 hotel in Vietnamby Tokyo Inn. Tokyo Inn was established in 1986 and is processing the largest chain of 3star hotel in Japan based on the nu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-791997.html Halong BayVietnam was one of the destinations that I most wanted to visit in Southeast Asia and I finally made it there last week I kayaked on the still glassy waters of Halong Bay which was breathtaking calming and humbling. Gliding peacefully and quietly on the water of this world heritage listed site surrounded by nature at its untouched best was an experience Im truly grateful for.l http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/Quang-Ninh/Halong-Bay/blog-791836.html According to the online version of The Telegraph UK the number of travelers from the UK to Vietnam has rapidly increased in this summer. This is based on the result of a piece of research from UK Post Office on sale of Vietnamese currency Vietnam Dong VND in this nation.The result shows that VND stands in the first position in term of growth rate more than 68 compared to same period last ye http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/District-1/blog-791832.html Lets Discovery the seductive tourism beaches in Vietnam with Huong Viet Travel Dont have the beauty of the blue sea white sand but the scent of fruit mysterious black sand which made Mui Nai attract many foreign tourists coming to Vietnam.Doc Let beachDoc Let or Doc Lech Ninh Hai ward Ninh Hoa town Khanh Hoa Province.Doc Let beach is very beautiful with white sand blue sea a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-791797.html We are pretty sure a bunch of people got in a room one night and said how can we get more tourists to the Mekong Delta. One person said 39how about we bring them to a coconut candy factory39 another said 39and we will give them snake wine39 and 39they can feed a crocodile39.We thought our day would be spent on the water navigating the channels of the Mekong Delta in a rowboat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/blog-791733.html Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City Hoi An and Halong are four of the Top 25 Travellers Choice Asia Destinations recognized by the worlds largest travel site TripAdvisor. Hanoi is rated fourth on the list while HCM City Hoi An and Halong rank 15th 17th and 25th respectively.lttable classtrcaptioncontainer stylepadding 4px marginbottom 0.5em color 333333 fontfamily arial fontsiz http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/blog-791658.html Okay so as we last left off I was hoping they might let us on a bus with Ikelos if we paid for extra seats but no such luck. My friend told me that they said they were scared he might bite somebody. So we had to take a private van to her hometown of Sa Det. It was more expensive then I would have liked but at least it was a really nice ride. We each had our own seat to just lay across even Ikelo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Mekong-River-Delta/Vinh-Long/blog-791632.html Right around 4 am I was rustled awake and took a few seconds to get my bearings 39Dong Hoi39 one of the employees said softly 39this is Dong Hoi.39 I shook Tara awake and we looked around the sleeping town a bit disoriented. The maps in guide books or even on google maps easily provide that false sense of security looking at it from above it all seems so easy until you are droppe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Quang-Binh/Phong-Nha-Ke-Bang/blog-791536.html Met de bus reden we behoorlijk vlot en comfortabel in een viertal uur tot Nha Trang aan de kust. Aan het busstation propten we al onze bagage in een miniatuurtaxietje dat ons deponeerde aan ons hotel. Daar werden we met open armen ontvangen door een bijzonder hartelijke familie. De eigenaars hadden zelf een baby van 7 maanden en dus kregen we ongevraagd een upgrade van onze kamer. Nha Trang staat http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Quang-Nam/Hoi-An/blog-791447.html Halong bay travel Halong bay one day or two daysHalong Bay is a very familiar destination for many tourists in the country and abroad. From Hanoi it is easy to discover Halong in a simple tour 1 or 2 days.Halong bayThe mysterious caves on the large islands on Halong Bay and beautiful sun on the water are also two points which you can not be overlooked when you come here. The world knows Halong http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/Quang-Ninh/Halong-Bay/blog-791393.html We arrived into downtown Ho Chi Minh City late afternoon after a bus ride through searing heat torrential rain and floods. As we recovered our luggage from the hold under the bus two things dawned upon us. The first being that the doors on the bus had not been as watertight as we might have wished when driving through the flooded towns. This mainly affected my bag although to what extent was http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/Cu-Chi/blog-791287.html Hue pretty much the epicentre of the Vietnam war and the ancient capital I was apprehensive about coming here. We had had various reports from people we39d encountered so far of how they didn39t really like it but I brushed these off thinking We39re not the average backpackers. As usual I was right. It was utterly lovely despite the unpleasantness of the journey there. There are http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/North-Central-Coast/Thua-Thien-Hu-/Hue/blog-791283.html I am deep in enemy territory NVA is everywhere and the hotel is far too luxurious. Our arrival into Hanoi was less smooth than I had anticipated but nevertheless we were now in Vietnam and in the luxurious Gia Bao hotel near Hoan Kiem lake. This was our treat at the start of a new country and it was reduced from 120 to 20 so we don39t feel too bad about the budget. So we settled into a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-791282.html So it has been a long process but I have finally arrived. I wound up flying on Japan Airlines and I have to say to anybody who plans on flying with a dog you should do the same. Not only were they ridiculously cheap 175 but they were great with my dog and at making me feel better. I was very worried about Ikelos my dog. There are so many horror stories on the web about dogs dying while flyi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-791183.html The capital city of Vietnam Hanoihas just been named the cheapest city in Asia and the second cheapest city in the worldlttable classtrcaptioncontainer stylepadding 4px marginbottom 0.5em color 333333 fontfamily arial fontsize 14px lineheight 22.390625px marginleft auto marginright auto textalign center cellspacing0 cellpadding0 aligncentergtlttbo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-791041.html With our hanoi full day tour offer you its unique images that totally different from other Asian cities at your first sight upon arrival and in your visits to pagodas temples museums and at its 36street Old quarter and the French Quarter. lts.parentNode.insertBeforec s gt lts.parentNode.insertBeforec s gt http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Red-River-Delta/Hanoi/blog-791007.html In the fading light elegantly attired passengers descended the gangplank of the Emeraude. Look at them in all that finery the U.S. Embassy staffer who flew in from Kabul Afghanistan to rendezvous with his Washington DCbased wife another couple from Perth who came up from Down Under on the recommendation of friends in HCMC and yet another chic European woman who jetted in to Hanoi on her o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northeast/Quang-Ninh/Halong-Bay/blog-790876.html 12 June 2013 It is raining here in Si Gn and I am watching it from the 22nd floor of the City Garden apartment building. Tomorrow I will leave Si Gn and fly to Australia via Kuala Lumpur. I hope to go back to Vietnam in mid September. Time flies so fast. It has been 4 months since I moved to live and travel in southern Vietnam. On that day I didn39t expect what would happen in my life http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Southeast/Ho-Chi-Minh-City/blog-790868.html The other side trip that I had planned to do from Hanoi was to a place called Tam Coc no sniggering please which has some similarities to Halong Bay except its huge limestone rock formations jutted out of rice paddies on the side of the Ngo Dong River instead of out of the sea as at Halong. It actually bears a remarkable similarity to Guilin in China except the Ngo Dong is much narrower than http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/Northwest/blog-790862.html It took us 2 days of hairraising motorbiking to reach our goal. The Hai Van pass a 21km long stretch of tarmac that wraps around the green mountains north of Da Nang had until earlier today been nothing more than a distant dream conceived long ago in a dingy pub back in frosty England. Today Sam Sam Harry and I found that our heavy expectations could not meet the spectacular experience http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Vietnam/South-Central-Coast/Da-Nang-/Hai-Van-Pass/blog-790747.html