Uncle Ho, a bad turn, and a Harley dream

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May 31st 2010

Published: May 31st 2010

Tuesday 25 May Cat Ba Island, Halong Bay. Its 6.00 am, and the noises of Vietnam have already had me awake for 30 minutes. Crossing from China to Vietnam, nothing marks the differential as much as the noise at the start of the day. If Robin Williams made us understand how HOT, DAMN HOT it gets here, then noise, noise, noise is what a visit will confirm. Nothing makes this change more obvious th... Read Full Entry

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Cat Ba sunset

Day 55...

Boy, this was good. We all needed this. Cat Ba Island. $8 for an hour.

Ocean Beach Resort

Molly tried for a day to get us here, based on a broachure she had seen...... so we went.. Careful what you wish for. Run down, dirty beach, nobody else swimming. The brochure was shot a few years ago

Cat Co II Beach

Almost to ourselves

The Strip, Cat Ba Town

Cat Ba National Park

Both the girls did really well to hike up here. 280 m high and a tough climb.

Thats pretty damn steep

Cat Ba Island National Park.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G...

lauren found reading this book, really easy

Friends

Lake in Sapa

Lauren and Molly find some friends for a couple of hours.

One of these people is 19...

Molly is pretty tall around these parts, which might explain why Lauren gets all the attention

Hmong woman

Sapa town

Hmong men

These are the taxis of Vietnam, and in Sapa, even more unique

Hmong Woman

The bruise on the forehead, is the remnant of a scalding hot bamboo end, applied to the forehead to supress / cure a cold or flu. Its endemic. The question is, does it work?

31st May 2010

Sue Rean
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Fantastic
What a mission, love reading your superbly written blogs. Almost feel as though am there with you ! Continue to enjoy your travels, take care :-) Sue R.

31st May 2010

uncle brian
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wow!
fantastic commentary, almost like being there! just finished reading Chickenhawk and Once We Were Warriors and Young, so your stuff fills in the picture!!!

31st May 2010

uncle brian
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tito
josep broz, known as Tito, was a war hero and later president of Yugoslavia, he was the only eastern europe communist leader who was not overwhelmed by the soviet juggernaut, but remained free, and I'm speculating thats why he was able to visit Vietnam and have an island named after him, dont think the puppet presidents of Hungary, Poland, East Germany etc would have been able to do that! One of my uncles, and therefore a cousin of Bernard, was a partizan and killed by the Germans in WW2, I guess you could say Tito was his Boss!

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