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February 7th 2010

Published: February 18th 2010

We're back. This time in the south. We flew from Kuala Lumpur to Saigon and checked into our usual hotel on Bui Vien in the affectionately named - "backpacker ghetto". It's actually not that bad. Plus our hotel's familiar and the staff know us as the English teacher from Haiphong. When we arrived our room wasn't ready so we dumped our bags and did the only decent thing we could do - went for a... Read Full Entry

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Kris and Kate

Rat on the Road

It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia. Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth.... "Where next?" you might ask. Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam. We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info

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This week Kris is mainly eating Pho

it's noodle soup with beef and comes with a plate of leaves, chilli and lime to add to taste

The last king of Vietnam's summer palace

Scary rabbit in the grounds of the King's old palace

Goddess with many arms and faces

making bamboo baskets

used for drying all kinds of things....coffee, silk worm pupae....

Dalat's first temple

coffee plants

coffee beans

coffee plantations outside Dalat

coffee beans

coffee beans drying in the sun

How dragonfruit grow

it's like a cactus. Who knew?

Vegetable farms outside Dalat

small orange trees ready for Tet

View over forests outside Dalat

Kate modelling roses in the flower greenhouses

women at the market in Dalat

Sheltering from the sun

Kris looses at slaps again to a small but very competitive Vietnamese lady

Temple

A difficult choice

Every day brings us new choices. Flower garden or nuclear reactor....?

18th February 2010

Graciela
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I have been there last October/November and it has been wonderful to see those pictures you took. The central highlands is an area full of beauty not to be missed. Love from Argentina. Graciela

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