Blogs from Northeast, Vietnam, Asia - page 7

Stayed on a cruise in Ha Long Bay. - Me Cung Grotto - Ti Top Island... read more

So, waking up to an apology text message and an offer of $40 for the trip we were happy. This is all we were trying to get it for in the first place! Hindsight's perfect sight I guess. Packing my bits up again we headed to a local store to stock up on a few provisions - anyone would have thought we were gonna be stranded at sea for days on end with the amount of stuff we brought! Anyway we got collected at lunchtime and driven to the port which was only about 5 minutes away. With a large amount of tourists coming and going we stood around for well over an hour while they somehow got it all organised - considering these guys do this everyday you possibly would have thought that they would ... read more

Halong Bay Majestic and mysterious, inspiring and imperious. A Unesco World Heritage Site. That's the description from Lonely Planet and it's not exaggerated. Agus called it stupendous. My description is as Richie would say "Marvellous". Nina thinks spectacularly beautiful and Elsie says "eh..." For the first time we booked a tour from the hostel in Hanoi. We had two choices, a cheaper one called The Lemon Cruise which had all the options we were after or The Cristina Cruise, the expensive luxury option. But when we went to book our lemon it was unavailable, and so our luxury adventure began (sigh ;). Early the next morning at breakfast a guy called Aung, as in (Aung Suu Kyi) started chatting with us, liked the sound of our trip and rushed off to buy a ticket to come ... read more

Welcome to two more weeks of school holidays for Tiffany and Leslie, so as always, we are heading on the road. This is the first entry of a few that is going to bring us around Vietnam from the North to the South. This is also a trip that should never have happened, that I didn't want to happen...but that I'm happily doing today, as this trip has to be done, by Tiffany and Leslie. These two are nearly 13 and 15...and at the speed it is going, they will be pretty soon at University, and I will that day have to negotiate with them to enjoy their company on holidays. Every parents of kids who have left the nest know this...even if you have a great relationship with your kids.Young adults do believe, that living ... read more

Hoi An was a beautiful city, or the old quarter bit was anyway. That's the only bit we really visited. Lots of history and nice places to eat. We went out one night for a few beers and some shisha. The hotel was good too, it had a massive pool with a swim up bar. The only problem was the day we were leaving there was a big wedding at our hotel. They had the after party at about 12pm and started singing very loud Vietnamese karaoke. They really love karaoke here.. I don't understand it myself! We got the bus to Hue. Hue was a bit boring really, not much to do. But we went out for dinner and celebrated Kimberley's birthday with sparklers and shots. We then went out to a bar called Brown ... read more